Release FFXI again

[Akumu]

To do that they have to cancel PS2 which they wont. They can't recode it for the ps3 because it would take too long for that they make a new game for the ps3 which is FFXIV. I think FFXI is dead and just should leave it as it is now there noting else they can do for it.

Agreed. It was fun while it lasted but now it should be left as a good memory. I think if they tried to recreate XI the game would fail more than XIV. Also, if they truly made it a sequel and pushed forward time people would find other reasons not to like it and say "XI was better SE you suck!"

XI had it's sights on the Hardcore player base way too much which is why now the content is so watered down just to survive.

[UnrealTai]

Ignoring FFXI for options in FFXIV is retarded.
Ignoring WoW for options in FFXIV is retarded.

If they want to do something new thats great, but core "Features" need to be carried over.
Features are not gameplay, like party searching from ffxi is a feature, a well done one and should have been carried over. Oh wait, it WAS carried over, now the argument is different. The implementation of the feature (Party searching) is so poor the feature isn't used. That doesn't mean people wouldn't use it. Everyone used this in XI, tons of people use it in wow for instances too.
XIV needs to overhaul the party search feature because people want it, but not how it was currently designed, this is why no one uses it.

Auto walk from Atlantica is a feature, and should have been carried over.

PVP battlegrounds from WoW is NOT a feature, Ballista from FFXI is NOT a feature.
PvP "IS" a feature. That is carried between almost all MMO's in some form.
Do you see people complain because FFXI had PvP its just like WoW? No, because although a feature remains the same, the actual implementation of it is so different you don't think of it as a copy cloned thing etc.
NO, cause again, it, is, a, feature.

When someone has been referencing something from FFXI it has been a feature. Not carrying over "features" is ignoring what they learned from the history of another game, back peddling.

I don't see anyone saying I wish my sword swung this way, or I want Slug Shot on archer yada yada, those are gameplay mechanics not features.

Everyone saying this is not FFXI is failing to see this point. NO ONE wants XIV to be XI, they want the features to be carried over from XI and any other MMO that had useful TOOLS. They have nothing to do with the core game play.
Try to open your eyes a little more to see this.

The same thing is going on with Square-Enix's (publisher only) other MMO Wakfu, they f'd up and didn't bother to include an AH and people are going ape-shi* about it. Among other things. And the devs refuse to respond to it so people are trying to refer to FFXIV in hoping the devs learn from the history of MMO's this decade and the previous.
Yet every time someone mentions XIV its the "This isn't XIV or XI" response.
That response is only appropriate when it pertains to a gameplay mechanic, 95% of the time its used it is used incorrectly.

Transferring a feature from one game to another is in no way just recreating one game into another.
If the copied content, such as if people demanded Dynamis in XIV from XI, then yes, that would be the time to say this is not XI. Dynamis was not a feature and should remain specific to XI. Large scale Linkshell PvE battles however are a feature that should be carried over in XIV in a different form.

Auto-attacking is a feature that directly impacts gameplay mechanics though, this one is tricky, however given that most other MMO's also have auto attack and are not deemed copies of another game (well, some), this is leaning more towards an acceptable carry over feature.

Some times there are people in that why can't parties be like this, or monsters like that cause things are too easy yada yada, they should only have 6 man parties with tough monsters. Well that is a perfect example of a time to use that statement above.
Not a feature.

Sorry just so sick of people saying this is not XI if it was only referencing a feature.
It could have been any MMO out there.

One day if XIV implements level sync, are you going to post topics that claim them to just be copying XI again?
If other MMO's used level sync as a feature, would your answer be different?

If the answer to the first question is yes, then you are someone who incorrectly uses the statement "This is not XI"

Understand yes? kk

I am all for every single feature from FFXI being implemented into FFXIV, but I don't want to play a clone.
Just as most people in here said, new areas, new lore, new everything, but SAME features as xi. And this game would be golden.

[Verecund]

^ What that guy said


Though at this point, I doubt anything they wanted to implement into the game would've mattered... there's no doubt that they had to have fallen behind schedule somehow judging by the state the game has been since release (though as to "why" is still a mystery...)

[BelgianRofl]

This thread has my complete approval. FFXI-2 or bust!

[Seirra_Lanzce]

in the end, you will need to wait another 8 years or so, for the team to be able to make another MMO.

[Kaedan]

If they wanted to do this, it could be another project, you know. They wouldn't have to drop FFXI. They wouldn't have to drop FFXIV. They could actually even call the game FFXI-2... hell, they've done it for FFX and FFXIII now, so why not FFXI? The company is huge and has many dev teams, so it would be quite possible to make it parallel.

Now that being said, would I play it? Probably not. And here's the reason.

I would only play it if it could be released before FFXIV gets "fixed". Which just wouldn't happen. FFXIV is already on track to become a great game, and it couldn't possibly take them as long to fix it as it would to make FFXI-2.

Also, from a business standpoint, it wouldn't make any sense. At that point, they'd basically be giving up on FFXIV and would be better off canceling it altogether to make a FFXI-2. And I guarantee you there are a lot of players that wouldn't want that.