Quote Originally Posted by Blarp View Post
The most challenging part of FFXI was waking up at 2 a.m. to go and sit through a three hour pop window competing against multiple other LS's who bot. The really tricky part was having fun while doing it. Name me a pre-WOTG force pop NM in XI (within reason, no AV) that was more difficult than any hardmode WoW progression raid boss. People are so caught up on what XI did, that anything the developers try to do different in XIV will be shunned by that community.
No, people are just so baffled at why FFXIV fails to do anything FFXI did right..

and for the record, WoW is not a viable point of reference on these forums.