History repeats itself

[Limonconcon]

Slow leveling, Friendships, alliances, Real epic world or instance battles (Nidhogg...Ultima), knowledge on where you are or who your guiding leader is, Exploring, respect and reputation, MEMORIES... and a lot more
This is what made FFXI an epic mmo; every FFXI player will be able to remember and tell a good memory about the game, Valkurn dunes is something that brings a smile in most of us who played the game and most of us will have a memory or a story to tell about it... This is something that doesnt happen anymore in the MMOs and thats bc you can be done with an area in a matter of an hour... No matter how good the graphics are or how pretty the waterfall is if it doesnt have a quest mark on it they wont even see it...

History repeats itself all the time and I think its time for it to start all over... all this companies looking for the new thing to do and looking for the most innovative mmo in the marked that will steal wows community are failing and collapsing and the reason why its bc they delivering the same crap with a different smell... and even do it smells different when you look at it end up been the same crap.
I think SE has their answer too success in their past, in its history... not in wows history or any other new-gen MMO...
I think its better to have a stable community of 750k-1mill for 6-7+ years then 3-4 million for 2 months...
SE please stop trying to attract the unfriendly and game sucking community of WOW and the game jumpers... Building a stable community its the key to success and if not go look at your past... and help us kill Absolute virtue again ... Bring back the old community and watch how we will make the unfriendly and game suckers become part of the good community and stay in it for years...
I personally take FFXIV and SE's vision as a successful MMO as kick in the balls to all the FFXI players... hardcore and casuals that spent so much time, money and loyalty on the game...

PS: Please I dnt want to hear the "go play FFXI then" bc FFXI is not FFXI anymore...
and what ARR is showing is all the opposite of what a friendly and respectful community needs...

[Mujen]

Slow leveling, Friendships, alliances, Real epic world or instance battles (Nidhogg...Ultima), knowledge on where you are or who your guiding leader is, Exploring, respect and reputation, MEMORIES... and a lot more
This is what made FFXI an epic mmo; every FFXI player will be able to remember and tell a good memory about the game, Valkurn dunes is something that brings a smile in most of us who played the game and most of us will have a memory or a story to tell about it... This is something that doesnt happen anymore in the MMOs and thats bc you can be done with an area in a matter of an hour... No matter how good the graphics are or how pretty the waterfall is if it doesnt have a quest mark on it they wont even see it...

History repeats itself all the time and I think its time for it to start all over... all this companies looking for the new thing to do and looking for the most innovative mmo in the marked that will steal wows community are failing and collapsing and the reason why its bc they delivering the same crap with a different smell... and even do it smells different when you look at it end up been the same crap.
I think SE has their answer too success in their past, in its history... not in wows history or any other new-gen MMO...
I think its better to have a stable community of 750k-1mill for 6-7+ years then 3-4 million for 2 months...
SE please stop trying to attract the unfriendly and game sucking community of WOW and the game jumpers... Building a stable community its the key to success and if not go look at your past... and help us kill Absolute virtue again ... Bring back the old community and watch how we will make the unfriendly and game suckers become part of the good community and stay in it for years...
I personally take FFXIV and SE's vision as a successful MMO as kick in the balls to all the FFXI players... hardcore and casuals that spent so much time, money and loyalty on the game...

PS: Please I dnt want to hear the "go play FFXI then" bc FFXI is not FFXI anymore...
and what ARR is showing is all the opposite of what a friendly and respectful community needs...

Seems similar to the thread about SE stop doing the norm .....

I only come on these forums time-to-time to look for updates, seems there's none. Soon i'll prob check once/month lol

[Griffster]

The number of posters on this forum is a small percentage of those who play XIV. In game I find almost everyone to be pleasant and good natured. I think the community is fine, we just need a game to go along with it. My largest concern is the cross server content finder. Many other games with that, experience large amounts of drama. Looking forward to 2.0 whenever it arrives.

[Zenaku]

SE need the money so they don't care about the wow/game jumpers they know about them. They just need the money to repay back the cost of making two mmo and making a mmo engine. At the end i'm hoping yoshi-p knows that us players who enjoy this game are here to stay for long time. Let's hope he care about us and dont make this into a 100% wow-clone you can copy from other game but at least come up with good idea that make the game diff and fun.

[Limonconcon]

SE need the money so they don't care about the wow/game jumpers they know about them. They just need the money to repay back the cost of making two mmo and making a mmo engine. At the end i'm hoping yoshi-p knows that us players who enjoy this game are here to stay for long time. Let's hope he care about us and dont make this into a 100% wow-clone you can copy from other game but at least come up with good idea that make the game diff and fun.

Well I dnt think their money will come from selling copys but from happy players and keeping them from a long time...

[Zenaku]

Well I dnt think their money will come from selling copys but from happy players and keeping them from a long time...

it took 5years for ffxi to pay back the cost of making the game. So i'm guessing making the game over again and the new engine it going to take them 8+years. But i'm guessing there not to worry seeing how big % of there player base is only going to pay 9.99 for life. So i'm guessing they really want to bring final fantasy fan but never play the online version and also other players to try something diff away from wow-clone.

I just think they need to do more to make it diff switching jobs and CS/Storyline is a great start but hope they bring more then just that.

[drivendawn]

it took 5years for ffxi to pay back the cost of making the game. So i'm guessing making the game over again and the new engine it going to take them 8+years. But i'm guessing there not to worry seeing how big % of there player base is only going to pay 9.99 for life. So i'm guessing they really want to bring final fantasy fan but never play the online version and also other players to try something diff away from wow-clone.

I just think they need to do more to make it diff switching jobs and CS/Storyline is a great start but hope they bring more then just that.

Not being an ass but please show me proof of this i can't find it anywhere about the hole 5 years thing.

[Warlock]

SE need the money so they don't care about the wow/game jumpers they know about them. They just need the money to repay back the cost of making two mmo and making a mmo engine. At the end i'm hoping yoshi-p knows that us players who enjoy this game are here to stay for long time. Let's hope he care about us and dont make this into a 100% wow-clone you can copy from other game but at least come up with good idea that make the game diff and fun.

/Idon'tthinkitmeanswhatyouthinkitmeans.org

[Isaveron]

This does not deserve its own thread, you could have easily posted about your nostalgia in Rokien's latest thread.

[Ryans]

This does not deserve its own thread, you could have easily posted about your nostalgia in Rokien's latest thread.

Because of the limited amount of space available on the internet? Oh wait...

I've never understood complaining about thread posts, its very easy to glance over a post to see if its something you are interested in. If it isn't, skip it. Simple.