Release FFXI again

[Corrderio]

Wouldn't this be better suited on the XI forums?

[Nuru]

^ What Corrderio said. Maybe not to the extent as FFXIV has it, but in FFXIV, it wasn't just color changes. The armors actually look a little different from the next. ex. The Mage hat from Hempen to Canvas, slightly tilted a different style.

Simple things like that. Plus you are comparing FFXIV's 6 month status to a game that has been out for 8 years x-x

EDIT: so what i get so far is that you want the same look and appeal of ffxi (not the graphics). Same culture, same world, possibly even new areas to explore. Get rid of the WotG and Abyssea alternate worlds though.

[Nuru]

Who knows? maybe the stats for some gear may change in the future. Some items are useless right now because they were implemented when the game was being ran by someone who envisioned this game to be made for a more RP-Oriented crowd. With that being said, customization was key to this aspect.

[Shelia]

Yeah, but I mean...

Iunno. I really liked this
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/images/fa...Mana-Tunic.jpg

as opposed to this
http://ffxiv.zam.com/Im/image/179480


Seen here, FFXI armor looked a lot less bland and more "fantasy", even though we didn't get to dye them. I'm not even talking about later level gear in XI's instance. That tunic is lv8 and it looks better than XIV's (and it doesn't make me look bald... lol). XIV's armor just feels like the same thing every couple levels BUT OH LOOK brighter colors!! ...You know? I'd rather have interesting looking gear than have brighter colors every couple levels. lol

[Neptune]

I wanted an HD FFXI for a long time. It would probably take years of man hours though. Even Blizzard won't re-release wow and that game makes billions. The thing with FFXI is that they would have to update a lot of the grinds for re-release because today it would be very anachronistic. I think the level of thinking prevalent at SE today will kill this possibility in the near future though.

[Kazimir]

Honestly, I'd totally go for this.

[Grimm]

I would like FFXI HD or FFXI-2 aswell. If they just built off of the lore XI started instead of something new we wouldn't have most of these problems we have now. Everyone would love to see and hear about what happened to their fave NPC 10,000 years from the current day in XI not to mention it would fit right in with the empire and new technology. And it's not earth so changing around the continents and making them different places would be easy enough to fit in. ifrit's cauldron could have erupted and turned the jungle into something like pompeii an ash land of petrified ton-berry's hell even adventurers.

[Heartfire]

Hmm... Well, to be honest, I loved FFXI. Not going to even try to deny it. It's my favorite MMO, period.

That being said, I've done enough in FFXI for it to be old now. I've played most of the classes as far as I want to take them, and I've done all the missions I can do.

What I really want is for the same quality of craftsmanship put into FFXI to be present in FFXIV. I want a good story. I want a class system that isn't catering to people with mental disabilities. I want almost everything that FFXI had, but better.

The absolute worst thing about FFXI was how long it took to get something accomplished. That's why only hard-core players could really get far in it. Most classes had to group together and be efficient in getting high EXP/hour. Unfortunately, the major reason I quit FFXI was I stopped having the time to play it for hours on end.

FFXIV was advertised as FFXI for people with little time to play. Why did SE lie?! Every time I log into FFXIV, I just sigh and wonder about it being feasible to rejoin FFXI. But then I remember how long it takes to level, and the fact that I've done most of the content in the game.... I'm just looking for something that is new, but has the same caliber of quality that FFXI did.

If they remade FFXI, I'd probably play it. But I would like to have new objectives. I left a little bit before they increased the level cap, because I didn't have the time to really play anymore, and I felt like I had already "done" most everything. RoZ, CoP, ToA, WotG.... I think the only thing I hadn't done was get Rank 10 in each country, but that's not a good enough reason to stay in the game.

The mini-packs were cool, though. But I don't think I'd want to see too many more of them. It kind of sucked that I had to pay for a mini-expansion that just gave better gear.

I want adventure! I want epic battles! I want some air-ships and chocobos! And I want my &@^! pimp-hat! (And to actually be a Red Mage, and not this crap we have for classes).

Anyone else feel that way?

[naero]

i really really miss my optical hat from XI. if i could just have that again i'd be perfectly happy.

[Elexia]

They chose to make XIV purely because they didn't want to upgrade XI and outdate the PS2.