I just want a FF11 modern game.

[BigCheez]

If the keyboard controls bother you - play with a controller. The game was designed for PS2 and it feels more intuitive with a controller.

You have to remember that we're talking about a game from 2002, designed for console and ported to PC. It's still developed on the original PS2 Devkit and that obviously has limitations. Going out of your way to play a game that's almost 25 years old and complaining that it doesn't adhere to modern standards is just... odd. You wouldn't buy a vintage car and complain that it doesn't have electric windows, power steering and a dashboard laid out in the same manner that you would expect from a 2025 car.

It will take a bit of time to get used to the controls and interface but I'm not sure why you would expect anything else.

[Jeeqbit]

It will take a bit of time to get used to the controls and interface but I'm not sure why you would expect anything else.

I did expect it to be rough, it's just that it was worse than what I expected. What makes it different from your example is that it's a live service game still in service. The topic here is about a modern version of FF11, so this is one of the points that would help in a modern version of the game.

[BigCheez]

I did expect it to be rough, it's just that it was worse than what I expected. What makes it different from your example is that it's a live service game still in service. The topic here is about a modern version of FF11, so this is one of the points that would help in a modern version of the game.

Sure, it's a live-service game, unfortunately, that doesn't change its history.

It's still an ancient PS2 game; built on the PS2 Devkit and ported to PC. They would need to effectively rebuild it from scratch to make it function like a modern game. It was designed for PS2 hardware and network capabilities and the dial-up internet of the time. You can't really compare it to something like WoW, which is only a few years younger but has been modernised much more over the years, because a lot changed in those few years and the games were developed in entirely different ways.

If we're talking about a new game, inspired by FFXI, obviously it would be updated in a lot of ways to remove some of the jank. But the jank just comes with the territory of a game like FFXI, and that definitely won't change. Luckily, the jank isn't so bad once you get used to how the game works and the game is good enough that it's easy to enjoy it despite certain things being unintuitive.

Took me a week to get used to the keyboard controls.

And even now I manually type in /map in other mmo's due to this habit. Ugh.

3rd party let you set custom keybinds these days, so it's possible to bind M to map lol. The one that always messes me up is hitting space to type in chat...