Please bring back old leveling up and longer battles!

[Kitfox]

No thanks to old system. It's near impossible to balance out exp based on what people do during the fight. Promoting exp during the fight also makes people want to drag out the battles instead of trying finish them. I do not find it fun to torture mobs to death by the slowest means possible. This also pits all the party members against each other instead of promoting team work because all your action rob something away from other party members. And if some actions give you exp without killing the mob, people will just never kill the mobs.

The current system promotes team work to beat enemies faster to get more exp. It is more consistent and more equally rewarding. I like it a lot more.

If this is all to prevent powerleveling, then there's a lot better ways to do it.

I don't think a weaponskill up system would add anything to the game. Our current classes basically ARE our weaponskill levels, they're simply called levels. Crafting follows the same system, so there's no need for a seperate weaponskill system, like they had in FFXI.

[Kirzan]

I never understood people who desperately want XIV to be exactly like XI is/was... It seems idiotic to me to switch to the same game in a different world OR pay 2 subscriptions for the same game in a different world. Because a person who wishes XIV was XI, will definitely stay subbed to XI.

When I saw videos and whatnot I was all like: "Oh sweet, a new FF MMO! They can't possibly make it a carbon copy of the old school, slow paced MMO that XI was back in 2002." Well, kinda was like that. After making barely any money and having the first Final Fantasy title being called a total failure, they remedied it.

You know what? They're not going back. They want money, they want more people. Therefore they will make a game that's tailored to a more recent generation of MMO Gaming. Don't like it? XI is still up and running buddy.