Quote Originally Posted by Lux_Rayna View Post
I hate to do this but you are comparing an incomplete game, which will be scrapped, to FFXI...which had been out as a complete game for a year with an expansion before it ever came to the US.

Basically wait until 2.0, which is the complete game, before making any comparisons...at least a year into 2.0 to be fair. Difficulty cannot be balanced in a game "under development", which is what FFXIV is.
Sorry but anyone saying its not fair to compare a complete game to an incomplete game is really an invalid point. Unless the game was free (which it wasnt) by free I mean completely free (meaning everyone got the money they spent on the disc/key) its fair to compare the RELEASED version to "enter comparison here" version.

I can argue that SE wouldn't release an incomplete game, so that means the game was complete! Its one thing to release and incomplete game to releasing a "completed" game with a broken engine. Of course I'm not trying to get all technical smart ass on people but I try to view all things from all angles and as a gamer if this difficulty doesn't change, people will most likely not stick around like they have in FFXI.