Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
The comparison is being made because it's a valid concern. I, and a lot of people, don't want them to return just as they were before. I want them to be better and more enjoyable to go after.
Thats my point. As far as I can tell, no one is asking for anything to return in the same capacity as FFXI. We are asking for the HNMs as they are in other MMOs that did them better then FFXI. Alot of other games did alot of the same things FFXI did, but alot better, some of them did things worse. If you read the entire thread, all anyone is asking for to have open world HNMs, and most have made references to how to improve them, or made references to other games that did it better, or specifically say to impliment HNMs but not as they did in FFXI.

You are simply trying to be difficult for the sake of it I guess. Because I pointed this stuff out as a reason to explain why I think "thats the comparison too many people are blindly making here".