Quote Originally Posted by Milkymoo View Post
The problem here is you're arguing these points to a community that is simply media illiterate. As someone who has played many games, especially JRPGs and Final Fantasy, it's really not hard to see that the design philosophy of XIV is vastly inferior to XI and arguably a disgrace to its namesake.
Wow, stating opinions as facts while insulting people for merely having a different preference. Nice.

Well speaking as someone who has been playing jrpgs for most of her life I strongly disagree that XIV is a disgrace to the FF series. It's easily one of my favourite FF games but with that said I rarely very directly compare it to the others I have played because they were single player games. Totally different experience to a mmorpg.

As for XI I can't speak much on it as I have not played it, but what I can say is in their quest to convince me to play it my friends ended up convincing me I wouldn't like it. I don't know if they just painted a very poor picture, but what they said made the game seem like little other than a dull grind. And I'm no stranger to grinding given that I near obsessively complete every scrap of content the jrpgs I play have to offer and have done so since childhood. I am more curious about XI now but that is only because I would like to personally see how different it is to XIV, not because anything about the game actually appeals to me. I don't begrudge those who enjoy XI, good for them if they do. But from what I know it doesn't seem to be my jam.