Risk Factor. Can I have it?

[Catharsis]

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.

Fine, if you feel that strongly about it, go complain on FFXI's boards then. IIRC, Hiromichi Tanaka is back at work on it (him being largely responsible for all the stuff you seem to like), putting all the tedious grind you could ever want in a game into magian relic upgrade trials - and if you love Tanaka's style of game-creation, you should by all means support him. Still, FFXIV has a right to a unique existence. I prefer to keep my faith in Yoshi-P.