If you want FF XI , then PLAY FF XI!

[Zelkelion]

I didn't get to play XI back in the day, but when I played it just a little two months ago it really seemed more interesting than XIV... there were so many more spells to choose from! And you had to go search for them, and Gil was actually hard to get for longer than just the first hour.

People are probably comparing it because they miss it, but it's just so dated now it's difficult to enjoy.

[Relic]

Your signature is Tidus. Your argument is invalid.

[Yelta_Sumasu]

If other games have cool stuff where similar content might fit in FFXIV I say take the ideas and dip them in FFXIV flavoring and lets have more stuff to do.

[Volsung]

If I ever ask for something that was in XI, I dont mean a literal rip off, but more like in spirit. Like if I said I wanted besieged, it would be that I want SE to create a town invasion event with story ally generals, troop build up, memorable enemies, etc. they could add or change w/e they wanted, its just that "type" of content was enjoyable. When you ask for something similar, people have a hard time grasping the word similar

If other games have cool stuff where similar content might fit in FFXIV I say take the ideas and dip them in FFXIV flavoring and lets have more stuff to do.

OMG you get it~! Thank you was wonderful seeing someone else have this input

[Forerunner]

Square Enix is going to make 'Final Fantasy XI-2'.

Final Fantasy XI-2? I'm okay with this.



+1 for your great idea OP.

[Medura]

Im ok that some from xi is added as long as the game keeps its originality. But, no matter how great the idea is, i wont be able to like it if you say "It was in xi so its perfect". Everyone has different opinions, copying another game wont give you more customers. If you want something in, describe the idea of it, maybe add something youd like in it, make it BETTER than xi, not the same.

[ChiefCurrahee]

Like others have stated people who say "more like XI" don't mean direct copy/paste. I don't think anyone playing this game is looking for a XI-2. SE tried the "original idea" route and fell flat on their face. So is it wrong to listen to people who stuck with the game and say "you know what I really liked from XI? I liked XYZ"


XI had many great content features to name a few,like:
Besieged
Campaign
Forced NM pop hunts. (ZNM)
Multiple endgame event zones like dynamis, limbus, sky & sea.

In the original story of XIV the empire was encroaching into Eorzea, how cool would it have been to fend off an imperial attack in one of the cities? How about defending one of the camps from a beastman raid?

To give SE some credit they did have an imperial invasion force that attacked low level camps, but they were so rare and too far from the player population to really create any excitement.

I would love to see more world NM hunts. something tiered "like ZNM from XI" where as you progressed through each tier the NMs got harder and harder but dropped better and better loot.

The Guildleve, faction leve system attempts this but seems to have been abandoned early on. What is currently in place isn't worth doing unless you are achievement hunting.

As it is now, 19 months post launch there are 2 dungeons and 2 primal fights to flesh out our "end game". I'm sure most of the content release is on hold for ver 1.x while they are putting ver 2.0 together. But Ver 2.0 needs to have A LOT of ready to play content for casual, hardcore, low level, mid level and high level players.

SE has a reference of 8 solid years of successful content ideas in the form of XI, numerous other MMO on the market to look at as well. As long as this game remains content limited, people will look back at other games where content was abundant and that they enjoyed playing.

[Dragon]

but it's just so dated now it's difficult to enjoy.

No, it has nothing to do with FFXI being dated (albeit I would love to see graphical overhauls in it). For the people like myself the problem is Abyssea ruined the FFXI experience we once knew and loved.

I'd probably just quit playing FFXIV if there were a private server of FFXI that included everything up to pre-abyssea content or at least managed to make a Lv. minimum restriction of 75 on Abyssea access.

[Zenaku]

Just because we want idea from FFXI does not mean we want to play ffxi taking good ideas from WoW is fine with everyone right? like dungeon finder, ! for quest and much more but ask anything that was great from FFXI and everyone QQ about it.

FFXI was a great game getting everything that FFXI was and making it 10x better and diff for FFXIV is 100% ok with me it just make this game better i dislike every idea from WoW and i still give them a try and they turn out to be great in ffxiv so i don't see why not take some from FFXI. FFXI and FFXIV are from the same company they should be a lot more alike and ffxiv should have more stuff from ffxi that made that game great but it does not it try to be 100% diff beside race and some lore and it fail getting a few things from ffxi wont hurt ffxiv at all so stop QQ.

[illriginalized]

Well I sure as hell don't want another herp derp WoW