Things that other games did right~

[Nakiamiie]

What drew me in those MMO...

WoW:
- Fully explore-able world and seamless, almost no boundaries and no limits, the map itself can even kill you! [i.e. falling a tremendously high cliff or tree branch, drowning from swimming at the bottom of the sea]. Can you imagine having to be careful when passing on the cliff edges in Thanalan or eastern Black Shroud? E P I C! I sincerely hope we see boundary-less maps like that in 2.0, it makes exploration a real adventure (and a good laugh at people AFK while running full speed on their chocobo).

- The potential threat of enemy players in certain zones. The thrill of not knowing if you'll be ambushed or if you'll ambush someone while adventuring in certain zones. How can this be included in 2.0? Players can flag themselves for PvP or not. Players that do not want to get involved in PvP simply keeps it toggled off and play normally, while others with their PvP flag up can be ambushed by other players. Even more, what if that open world PvP was possible only with members of other Grand Companies? People from the same Grand Company would truly feel like brother in arms when their PvP flag is toggled on. Obviously, it would impossible to PvP in towns, hamlets and in certain areas. Rappelz has/had a similar PvP system with open world PvP toggle on/off (with a 10 second timer to activate/deactivate) which worked wonders when I tried the game a long time ago.

- Free flight with flying mounts. A must nowadays, FFXIV need that too, no exception.

Ragnarok Online:
- Each class evolve into one or more enhanced classes. We will already see something similar with the job system in 1.21. Congratulations FFXIV devs! Keep adding more jobs too.

Final Fantasy XI:
- Realism and beautiful graphics. FFXIV already has that, congratulations devs!

- One character for all jobs. Once again, in FFXIV one character can experience all the classes too. Congratulations devs!

- Cross-platform servers and international servers. We also have that for FFXIV, thank you devs!

Flyff:
- Free flight and aerial combat. Definitely something FFXIV needs to become the most awesome game ever.

[Altanas]

WoW / Darkfall
Guild Banks with logs

Wow ?
Guild Tabards/Logos

Darkfall
Visible Guild Rank
Guild Allegiance system
Gathering in an unsafe pve pvp world [keeps the andrenalin pumping!]

Phantasy Star Online v1
An epic dragon boss that actually flies around =)
That portal spell you could set literally anywhere so you or your party members could return to town AND go back through the portal again afterwards back to camp (that would have been so bloody useful in FF11 lol)

[neorei]

i think FFXI has a much better communication/community than any MMO I've ever played, i'm still very close with alot of the people i've played with. I think the chat being this big space in the middle made you look at chat more than anything else.

[Tibian]

Neorei, could you please put all your comments in one post. You've made several posts almost instantly after each other; which could have been put in the same post.

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[Rydin]

The Blue Mage was the most amazing thing ever created.
A mage that learns the abilities of the monster it battles.
Genius.

And yet in every FInal Fantasy (other than FFXI) blue mage was SUPER lame... and I mean SUPER lame

[TheVedis]

And yet in every FInal Fantasy (other than FFXI) blue mage was SUPER lame... and I mean SUPER lame

Gau was an awesome blue mage....

[Jennestia]

I don't know, Quina was pretty damn broken if you kept it at 1 HP for Limit Glove.

[Lucifer]

Gau was an awesome blue mage....

Strago was the blue mage.
Gau was something entirely new that should be brought back. He was like a Beast Master without the Master... lol

[Rokien]

This http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ing-like-this.

[Shurrikhan]

WoW (Vanilla)
- Content that provided freedom, rather than enforcing a roller-coaster lack of freedom (Cata).
- Casual, slightly goofy accessibility of world PvP and endless BG combat (3-day Alterac Valley battles).

I thought I had more, but they keep turning negative again before I can write the good parts down. Guess I have one:

WoW (in general)
- Ease of movement and combat (fast twitch controls)
- Ease and seamlessness of world environments
- Ease of economy (though Mog mail may cover that as of 2.0)

FFXI
- One of the most enjoyable soundtracks both in-game and standalone for any MMO.
- Some great concepts, and expansions that didn't seem like pure rehashes. (I'd be interested in thinking about what FFXIV could do to that effect...)

I guess I really don't have any other memories fond enough to survive my begrudging thoughts of "this could be so much better if only..." and the like.