Fighting Desperately...

[ZakarnRosewood]

OP: Careful you dont critisize them too in depth with real facts, i did and got my post deleted and a temp ban for 3 days. I hear what you are saying though but i doubt they will change it in the way you would like. good luck though.

[Crysten]

I wish some empathetic developer who was a true fan of FFXI would bring it back to us in some form.

This is relevant. Not exactly the point, but relevant.

The OP has some nostalgia glasses and wishes to play XI. OK, that's cool. Go play XI, then.

Don't come in here saying XIV sucks and you desperately want it to be XI when XI is still totally there for you to play.

I'd rather have XIV be it's own unique entity, thanks very much.

[Xoo]

The OP has some nostalgia glasses and wishes to play XI. OK, that's cool. Go play XI, then. Don't come in here saying XIV sucks and you desperately want it to be XI when XI is still totally there for you to play.

Duly noted.

[Xoo]

This, Riaayo, again, from page 1:

It's all about what I personally enjoyed and preferred. Challenge it may not necessarily have had, but if XI was easy, then this game is for mongoloids. No offense to any mongoloids in the community.

[Riaayo]

This, Riaayo, again, from page 1:

It's all about what I personally enjoyed and preferred. Challenge it may not necessarily have had, but if XI was easy, then this game is for mongoloids. No offense to any mongoloids in the community.

Ifrit is like, baby's first raid encounter in terms of the mechanics WoW has been using for years, and it's still more interesting, engaging and complex than anything XI ever had.

You know I see people from XI constantly say WoW is easy when they've never played it or only lvl'd and didn't raid on it, or that XIV is so much easier than XI... and yet I see people that talk like that get raped by eruptions on Ifrit all the time because they've never experienced other games or are just use to standing around mashing a macro on an XI boss.

XI took forever to do everything and punished the hell out of you for any mistake and often even for no mistakes. This game doesn't take as long, but in all honesty probably has more challenge in some of its fights than XI ever did (but not by a whole lot yet).

Comparing XI to, say, WoW (or other boss encounters in general), is like comparing walking 100 miles (XI) to walking 1 mile in knee-high mud. It's not that walking 100 miles is all that hard, it just takes forever. Walking through mud though? That's actually a pretty rough challenge. Both of these will deter people who "can't make the cut"... but most people who give up on the 100 miles are smart enough to not waste their time, while the people who give up on the mud just can't overcome the obstacle.

All this said, XIV DOES need to be harder, but not "XI hard." It needs to be REAL hard, and I don't believe the XI community knows real hard as much as the hardcore WoW community does (not saying the casual crybaby WoW players do).

[Signy]

Here you can watch what happen on XI and have even more nostalgia about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=579V8l7sl-8

[syntaxlies]

...with an ever-growing urge to just return to FFXI, get a much-needed nostalgia fix, and play all the jobs I used to love from Lv1 solo. This, just before I log out of MMORPG's for the last time. /melodrama.

There was a poll held a few months ago, and it revolved around the question, "What do you enjoy about FFXIV?" At the time, and unfortunately it remains the same, I had only one response: I like the graphics. Indeed, they are good and still amaze me.

Still, graphics do not hardly make a game. FFXIV, to me, just keeps becoming more restrictive, blurred, and just down-right not fun. I actually think I had more fun with the battle system as it was near release than the way it stands today. SE has gone overboard with Easy Mode in the form of Combos - with bright flashing circles that scream, "Click me to not suck"!! And I have every reason to believe it's just going to get worse.

I don't want what FFXIV is now and what is apparently going to grow up to be: Beyond Casual - A slacker's game made for slackers. It's really heartbreaking to think of all this game could have been, but I suppose it just makes better sense to milk the cow and market the milk.

No offense to any females out there, because I know you're all tough as nails, but I feel like FFXI was a 'man's game' - where you liked getting your hands dirty, and you came back from every adventure to Sand'Oria dripping with sweat and covered in blood. Effort: It builds the strongest character. Pun intended.

I wish some empathetic developer who was a true fan of FFXI would bring it back to us in some form. I don't need the brand to enjoy the game, by any means. I need mystery, intrigue, challenge, depth and adventure to fill a void that was left by some of my most fond and fantastic memories in gaming.

World of Warcraft, may you rot and burn in Hell.

if it makes you feel any better i know some people who have gone back to ff11 and they say they took most of the time sinks out and you can blow through the whole game faster then ff14.

[Xoo]

Yeah, I totally don't want that. Like I say, I just want to play solo to my heart's desire.

[TheVedis]

Yeah, I totally don't want that. Like I say, I just want to play solo to my heart's desire.

there are tons of solo player games out there you can do that in you know

[Xoo]

there are tons of solo player games out there you can do that in you know

If I go, I'm taking your ass with me Foxbat :P