If you want FF XI , then PLAY FF XI!

[ZanarkandAbes]

Okay I know I will get a lot of trolls coming in on this but I feel it really needs to be said.
I have just started playing this game, and looking through the forums all I ever see is people constantly comparing this game to Final Fantasy XI, saying how things need to be done the same way that Final Fantasy XI did them etc.
I did play Final Fantasy XI a while ago, and only for a very short time.. well, not long enough to remember much of it anyway.

I'm sorry to all you die hard Final Fantasy XI fans, but Square Enix is not going to make this game into 'Final Fantasy XI-2'. This isn't a remake of Final Fantasy XI, this is a completely different game, with a lot of features similar to Final Fantasy XI. If Square Enix really put all of these little things you miss from Final Fantasy XI, it wouldn't leave room for things for you to remember from XIV! I'm sorry but Square Enix are really not going to do that. If you are that desperate for Final Fantasy XI, then stop complaining and play it! Simple as that really.
Just because this game has not been perfect from the beggining, doesn't mean that you have to fill those patches up with previous content and ideas from the last series of the online games.

This of course is just my personal opinion, and I am in no way experienced to Final Fantasy XIV, nor am I experienced in Final Fantasy XI, but I really was hoping for more people to be asking for original and inventive ideas to be created into the game. Yes that's right, I said created, not remade.

[ThePatriarch]

This of course is just my personal opinion, and I am in no way experienced to Final Fantasy XIV, nor am I experienced in Final Fantasy XI, but I really was hoping for more people to be asking for original and inventive ideas to be created into the game. Yes that's right, I said created, not remade.

I stopped there.

[Mihana]

This has been said time and time again. It's also been said about comparing this game with WoW. People are gonna do it anyway.

[Rokien]

Wow really....... FFXI is NOT ffxi anymore..... If they would have made FFXI-2 There would have been 100k subs right there. Probably more, but 100k is safe to say.

[Dragon]

If you want FF XI , then PLAY FF XI!

Except that most people that want to go back and play it really can't because of Abyssea.

[ZanarkandAbes]

I stopped there.

You stopped at the last sentance.. okay?

[Peptaru]

If you have next to no knowledge about these games, how the hell would you know if stuff was remade anyway? You'd just see it as great content if you tried it. On top of that, it was the next to last sentence he quoted, if you wanna be a jack-ass about it.

[ZanarkandAbes]

I wouldn't compare this game with WoW, Square Enix are very good at originality. That's why I think the community for XIV should trust their originality a bit more! It seems like people are just hung up on the fact that they can't play XI anymore and are trying to enfuse it with XIV. And that will ruin the game even more if i'm honest. The game needs fresh, new ideas. Because once it starts being more and more like FF XI, it's a slippery slope until it starts enfusing ideas from other MMORPG's and then this game loses the greatest thing about it, it's originality.

[Kopuno]

This is going to be a repost of a post I did earlier, but this subject hits the nail on the head.

I love how you mention anything XI and people scream either for it or against it. I also find it funny when people like to respond with "You like content from XI? Go play XI!" First off, I would be playing XI had they not totally destroyed the game with Abyssea. Secondly, anyone, me or another can want this game to be more like XI in every way possible without you or someone else directing me back to said game. In fact, I hope (which in a lot of ways already have) they make this a complete clone of XI just to wrinkle your "Don't turn this game into XI" panties.

You people are fucking annoying. Get over it~

[Yves]

To the OP: almost nobody has requested this game to be a remake of XI - they have only asked for elements. When it comes down to it, FF as a series has always been fundamentally the same - THIS IS WHY PEOPLE ARE FANS OF THE FRANCHISE! There are elements that change from time to time but many that stay the same. People have requested the elements that they feel define FF and also elements that they enjoyed.

I don't XI-2 - I merely want a few of the elements that I loved.

These outlier arguments are beginning to get old...