What is so bad about FFXI?

[Shipp]

I want it to be ffxi in the sense of great storyline and gameplay so far ffxiv does not meet that. Sky,COP,whitegate all of this is great but FFXIV is becoming more like wow or a western game and don't sit there and tell me no it's not. Right now FFXIV 2.0 is noting like ffxi. 1.0 is really like ffxi but i understand in today market we need to have stuff that are in other MMO have and that fine by me. But to make this game great for both hardcore / casual you can't make it 100% like ffxi or 100% like western type mmo.

FFXIV should try and stay unique systems while adding ffxi and wow system within if they can do this then it would be a great game if they go and make it ffxi 2.0 or a wow-clone it wont get far at all. Let's hope Yoshi-p knows what he doing when it come to 2.0 so far i loving everything there only a few things that should never be added but we see how it work out.

I don't get this with you. It's just like in the other thread where you say the 2.0 concept UI looks like WoW and the graphics look like a downgrade. Neither of which are true. Everyone knows you hate WoW. You make that abundantly clear in 95% of your posts, as you always have, long before XIV came out. That does not mean that you are right and everyone is wrong.

XIV at the moment plays nothing like, nor even looks like XI outside of the same races. The scenery doesn't feel the same, the mobs don't feel the same, hell, even the races do not feel the same, though they resemble XI's races. Renaming the races was a ridiculous decision, in my opinion. Another example of SE trying to reinvent the wheel and make sure everyone knows this isn't XI-2. 2.0 looks VASTLY more like XI than it does currently. The systems are still different though, jobs/subjobs aren't making a return, and jobs are advanced through quests instead of mob grinding.

Again, XIV 2.0 is still nothing like WoW. It doesn't look like WoW, the area concept shots we have seen do not "feel" like WoW, and they are much closer to XI and other FF games. A few shots remind me of IX. I think you're forgetting what Final Fantasy was about prior to X. Realism was not part of the series, ever. Realistic looking graphics does not mean they look like copies of real world areas. It means that the game looks as if it could actually exist. It's, "This is what a real life crystal tower would look like." Not, "Crystal towers don't really exist so we can't add them to the game." Those crags in XI... have you ever seen one in real life? Have you ever been teleported someone in real life? Have you ever warped somewhere in real life? Have you ever visited that famous floating tower in the sky with gods? Have you ever visited Planet Namek on acid? Have you ever ridden an oversized chicken? Have you ever seen living beings that are 10 times your size? Have you ever ventured into a tree to find wisps and blue light radiating from fungi? No? Then XI is just as unrealistic as XIV will be.