Quote Originally Posted by Steggun View Post
What I was hoping for from FFXIV was for SE to take the parts of FFXI that worked well and improve upon them, and to take the parts that did not work and overhaul or remove them. Doing this along with the fancy new graphics and new storyline would have made one hell of a game I think.
That's what we, FFXI players, all wanted to see. It was also the most logical choice to make for a game company with an old, but successful mmorpg on their hands.

That said, i agree with the OP completely, but it is painfully obvious that many people would probably log off and never return to these forums again if the dev team said "we are turning this game into a direct FFXI:COP successor."
Perhaps we should make a poll to see the percentage... but there is probably one already.

In any case transforming 14 into a perfect 11-2 is in my opinion practically impossible at this point, so we just have to wait and see what comes out of this. It just saddens me to think that "our" FFXI is gone forever.