Very interesting...

[Airlea]

I came across this years ago and had actually forgotten about it.

It's an awesome read after experiencing the launch of XIV. It's astounding how similar both launches have been.

It does indeed make me feel more confident in XIV's future.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

seif why are you here? those are not getting changed any time soon. plus what ffxi mission are you refering to? as i recall getting an axe from an orc had really no story to it. Or hunt down a crack mana orb, or runing throught a mine for a report. Same for quest in ffxi. Like hunting bat wing, or yagado neckleses. How much story did those have.

[Jericho]

It just makes me feel good to read. In my opinion, once they come up with a new class/battle system, which we know is going to happen, there will be plenty of potential for this game... Based on that read, the bar for potential is pretty low!

[Phrozen]

http://jpbutton.com/ has an update history of XI

[darkstarpoet1]

these older posts like this also makes you wonder how much better this game would have been at this same point in time it they let the jp members only have the game in advance like they did xi. i believe alot of the issues they have so far is differing opinions between the 2 bases which has the dev's confused on which way to go. if they had only let the jp players have it to get the game to a reasonable state there first, since they are the less abusive base, then they could easily tweak the na release without as many holdups.

[Nabiri]

Really really enjoying reading this. Thank you~
Gives me lots more hope for FFXIV.

[Xedonius]

Great read; nice points that bring reality back to some...

So far I've seen nothing like the rank 3 dragon fight in XI gameplay-wise.

I gotta agree with you here, preparing and finding a crew of noobs like me to take on the Rank 3 Dragon was exhilarating! The cheers we yelled when we toppled that mob.... ah memories! Memories like this keep me around XIV, I have no doubt there will be moments like this in XIV.

[Joe_Cool]

Even the basic missions that were in the beginning of XI offer a variety of ways to complete them the storyline is better written and every mission is better than XIV ones.

I actually like the main storyline of FFXIV alot better than I did the main storyline of FFXI. I'm rank 10 in Bastok and Windurst by the way.

[Joe_Cool]

So far I've seen nothing like the rank 3 dragon fight in XI gameplay-wise.

Most of the starter missions are better too. In XIV most of the starter missions can be done with little to none player interaction and yet they have rank-locks that XI didn't have.

I see where you're coming from Seif but there's something you should probably consider as far as that goes.

In FFXI, crafting and harvesting jobs were Not playable classes.

In FFXIV, crafting and harvesting jobs Are playable classes. People that prefer to just rank up crafting or harvesting would like to advance in the storyline too. And I feel FFXIV made the main story missions more solo friendly because of this.

[BadJoeRed]

(on ffxi at least)
Truth = The players with the most people on their blacklist were the most disliked individuals on the servers.

If you think is not true because you had many players on your blacklist. Denial, nobody liked you.

"I said with all due respect"


Edit: didn't want to use the word "people" 4 times.