Quote Originally Posted by Limecat View Post
This is actually an interesting question to me. XI continues because of a lot of reasons, and even now I would probably play it on the side if time allowed. Even as much as things have been sped up in XI, it still has a lot of very long-term goals you can engage in. XIV is a much different critter though. Strictly theme-parky. At the point where all story content is done, and all the fights cleared at least once for the hell of it, I would have no reason to keep playing this game in the face of a fresh FF MMO.
This is the thing: FFXIV feels too easy, too on rails, too theme parky and downright claustrophobic most of the time, unfortunately. FFXI was a better MMO experience in it's core, it just needs small modernization in terms of interface, controls and graphics specially and maybe with the addition of a better quest log and some more interesting side quests to be done. FFXI players are loyal and SE would do well to give them more attention both in FFXI and in FFXIV, FFXIV should be more like FFXI in every single way.