Quote Originally Posted by Arya View Post
Wait, you're comparing a game that's been running for years (FFXI was released 2002 IIRC) with one that's been running for less than 6 months? That's hardly a fair comparison. When FFXI was around 5 months old (like FFXIV is now), it had plenty of issues too - just ask anyone who was there. The difference now is that a lot of those who were waiting for FFXIV to launch were expecting games at a level of FFXI, WoW...etc... as they are now. Unsurprisingly, people were disappointed.

I'm not saying that FFXIV shouldn't have had issues at launch (I think anyone who expects a new game of this size to be issue free is deluding themselves), but perhaps SE could have avoided some issues. But I'm not here to talk about that - it's been done to death on other forums, and SE and most of the playerbase have moved on, so let's leave it be.

A lot of EU and NA players jumped on the FFXI bandwagon in 2004/5, when "Rise of the Zilart" and "Chains of Promathia" were being released / already released. Wait till Sept 2012/13 before starting to make a comparison to that.
I'm not really trying to make a comparison, it just an example that merging both game would not work and is a bad ideas because SE is making money off of FFXI, tons of FFXI veteran still playing FFXI, FFXI have more contents, etc. So a merge is not possible. I know FFXIV will someday move toward to be just as good or better then FFXI.