Quote Originally Posted by Catharsis View Post
The point is: It might be surprising, but some of us actually DO play FFXIV precisely because it isn't FFXI. If we wanted to play FFXI, we'd go play FFXI. Trying to satisfy everyone is akin to the fable about the old man, his son, and the donkey and I'd rather they just pleased themselves trying to make a game that they could be proud of.

I highly doubt you'd draw many people back to the game with "Come back and try FF14! We've made it more tedious, impenetrable and grindy!". People that like that usually end up playing Darkfall.
People loved FFXI because it was harder, that's what people played it for. If you noticed they did NOT start losing players until wotg came out and exp became easy to solo via campaign. Campaign was a grind, and it was quite boring, before when people were tired of partying they would go enjoy the game's content, therefor quests/missions designed for lower levels actually had meaning. Heck it took me a year to get my first 75 but the way there was an incredible journey.

And we can't go enjoy FFXI anymore because they ruined it. It's become a lot like 14 is, max level in hardly any time and everything is easy. At least XI was a good grind, XIV's method is easy content that repops instantly but has a low drop rate. Not to mention XI's 10 years old, the fans deserved a next gen FFXI, do they expect us to keep playing a ps2 game forever?

I personally wanted an FFXI-2, most of their users wanted it too. they imported the same races, they made it resemble XI and put the same development team on it and then change it to accommodate a new fan base instead of us.

What kind of logic is that, turn on your client base and try to go after WoW's audience? Even if XIV had been a 10/10 title at launch WoW's audience is going no where, most of them are too narrow minded to give a JRPG a shot. And it's not even a nationalism thing, they just can't relate it.