Quote Originally Posted by Yasuhiro View Post
That's the funny thing I noticed about this fanbase on the NA side anyway
World of Warcraft players: mostly likely fans of the warcraft series (or jumped on the popular MMO bandwagon)
TESO players: fans of the single player elder scrolls series
Final Fantasy XI: fans of Final Fantasy games prior
Phantasy Star: fans of the games and Sega properties in general
Final Fantasy XIV players: probably fans of Final Fantasy games prior
Fixed that for you.

I don't think the majority completely hates XI references, but OP's suggestion sounds like something that'd take a lot of development resources. To me, it sounds like they basically want SE to copy a big amount of the bosses, and areas from nearly every XI addon/expansion, and drop it right into XIV. Not to mention all those XI glamour sets that'd have to be modeled and updated to be worn by XIV characters. Oh, and a system that allows the player to swap between characters (or maybe the OP simply means jobs? Even though that's impossible to do mid-combat, currently), as well as everything being balanced for 3 group sizes (8, 16 and 24).

This sounds like quite the effort just to honor another game in the series.