Very interesting...

[Armageddon]

WOW!

That was a long reading!

Obviously FFXI was worst then FFXIV when it came out.
But thats no excuse.
SE had no MMO experience back then, after 10 years of experience and new technologie offer to them.
FFXIV shouldn't have to go to all the hell FFXI went through before becoming one of the best MMO I ever played.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

WOW!

That was a long reading!

Obviously FFXI was worst then FFXIV when it came out.
But thats no excuse.
SE had no MMO experience back then, after 10 years of experience and new technologie offer to them.
FFXIV shouldn't have to go to all the hell FFXI went through before becoming one of the best MMO I ever played.

umm ffxi was out only 3-4 years when they started ffxi. so in reality they only had 3 year experiance. And it was a defferent dev team all together. And chances are didn't keep tabs on each other. if they started developing ffxiv now then it would be 9 years experience.

[Xatsh]

umm ffxi was out only 3-4 years when they started ffxi. so in reality they only had 3 year experiance. And it was a defferent dev team all together. And chances are didn't keep tabs on each other. if they started developing ffxiv now then it would be 9 years experience.

Actually Tanaka was the lead in both games at the start. And if I remember correctly in interviews before release they stated alot of team was the same which is why so many land mark designs are similar in design and concept to FFXI.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Actually Tanaka was the lead in both games at the start. And if I remember correctly in interviews before release they stated alot of team was the same which is why so many land mark designs are similar in design and concept to FFXI.

ahh ok. my bad but still they didn't have 10 years of mmo experience when making ffxiv. if they started making it now then that would be true.

[Xatsh]

All of FFXI's quest where mainly Blah with a few gems all the way until WotG, at that expansion they got their own story line, CS, and boss battles. Basically a 2ndary story line that followed the main line.

The evolution of FFXI:

Mission sucked ballz in vanilla FFXI take FFXIV's missions and take out almost all the CS's and add pointless quest and you have the original missions of FFXI. Remember Shadowlord in the missions was endgame, you even got end credits when you beat it.

Zilart I thought the story line was decent quest where the same as the original style, the main thing with this expansion is it added all of endgame.

CoP which I would argue are probably the best and some of the if not the hardest missions in any mmo to date. Truly epic storyline fit to be in a FF game.

Toau's mission and quest for the most part where on the weaker side, a few CSs but nothing really flashy until the upper missions.

WotG Missions I thought where extremely well done, was like a game of chess with your version of existence at stake.. and you are losing big times throughout the whole story line... never did finish it to see how it ended though. Quest as I mentioned where the best done quest in FFXI.

The abysea just sucked ballz again, the add on expansions where pretty good story wise just not as epic as the main expansions.

[CeeKay]

Very good find, I'm reading this now.

Here is a real good one.

"- Serklets Earth Powder no longer hits the Party members who are in the first floor (this was horrendous. Before Shiia, my character named Xenno an elvaan mage were exping in there, and all of a sudden, BAM all party member dead. Why? Seklet's aoe affected even on the first floor...)."

Serket ftw!