Quote Originally Posted by viion View Post
I'm confused as to the title? We do NOT feel like this is an FFXI-2 and we wish it was.

The problem SE have is they forget that WE are the ones playing, NOT THEM. If 90% of people want an XI-2 they have to do it or 90% dont play lol its as simple as that. (figure used as example).

They then thought they could do the same tactics as before and create very minimal stuff @ first just like XI then spend a year getting it up to par just like XI then spoon feed us expansions and we pay for them for stuff they already planned. Sorry we're not that stupid, this isnt 2002 again, we expected standards to be set and that is why the game has ultimately failed and XI just makes it worse because its not like its SE first attempt lol they've already made great systems but then they went and completely ruined them in their second game. It is also why FF13 has a bad representation because they've gone down a bad road in some aspects.
I'm not sure your 90% is accurate here. It looks more like 35% want it to be a FFXI-2... 35% want to rip off WOW and the rest want an original game and want SE to keep on the route they are currently going with FFXIV.

Also the amount of players still in FFXIV is quite small.... sure they want to please us but their main goal as a business is to bring FFXIV mainstream. They already got FFXI for the hardcore and want FFXIV to compete in the same market as WOW. They want to reach as many gamers as possible by making this MMO more solo/casual friendly. Making it FFXI-2 will only please the FFXI crowd and will make this game more of a niche thing then mainstream.

You gotta understand SE, they are a business and their goal as a business is to make money. The more users they reach, the more money they will make.