Why do you all feel FFXIV is a sequel to FFXI?

[Alexis_Arteme]

As soon as I have a gunblade, or a uniform rather than old time plate mail, or look at a neon lightshow of a city, I'll believe it

[Linkurrra]

That doesn't sound at all like 99% of video games in general

lol your right My point was applauding SqEnix on how well they reinvent this series To make it worth a compelling purchase everytime. yet still familiar enough to Veterans to pick up and play and not have to relearn everything all over again.

[Verecund]

1. It's the second real Final Fantasy MMO
2. The character stylizations/branding are pretty much identical


That being said, Lalafell's shall never replace the great Master Vivi.

[Mhati]

Making an FFXI-2 is unreasonable, that game is slowly losing population also. Earthquake delayed this:

- Schedule
World Merge will be performed during the upcoming maintenance scheduled for Mar. 16, 2011. Once the maintenance is complete, characters from the "Source Worlds" will be migrated automatically to the "Destination Worlds."

* The schedule for the maintenace will be released at a later date.

- Details on the World Merge
The following is a list of Worlds designated for the World Merge.

Source World -> Destination World

Ramuh -> Bahamut
Alexander -> Shiva
Titan -> Phoenix
Gilgamesh -> Carbuncle
Unicorn -> Fenrir
Ifrit -> Odin
Diabolos -> Siren
Caitsith -> Ragnarok

Back to the point of thread though, many things in FFXI were hammered out over years of refinement...call it "SE learning how to do a MMO". What people are saying and other people are assuming what they are saying is two different things.

Many "basic" UI things are just missing (ie. /sea all <t> and the famous (infamous) LFG icon)

If you look at the Commands, most are cut and paste from FFXI syntax, with some of the *basic* ones missing

I don't want a FFXI-2... just some basic controls back...I want new content and do NOT want anything WOW-like

[weeble]

I don't want a FFXI-2... just some basic controls back...I want new content and do NOT want anything WOW-like

<<<this thank you have a nice day.

[Malakhim]

Hey guys.

Final Fantasy VIII uses humans just like Final Fantasy VII did.

It must be Final Fantasy VII-2.

[Onidemon]

Honestly i think making a FFXI-2 or turning this into a FFXI ramke with better graphics will make FFXIV fail even more then it did. I'm sorry for all of you who love FFXI but let's be realistic... FFXI is not on anyone's best games list as someone mentioned before... even if you google top 5 or top 10 MMORPGS, FFXI is not even mentioned. The user base is very low and it always was ever since WOW came out. In terms of being successful, FFXI is a fail so in no way will SE benefit from taking too much things from FFXI. Yes FFXI is better then XIV but that's cuz they messed up really bad not cuz it should have been FFXI-2.