Quote Originally Posted by shots View Post
Well I am neither a FFXI vet nor a WoW fan... I am even worse!!! I left Guild Wars for XIV after some friends tried getting me into XI. This has nothing to do with that but just giving some background. But seriously, excluding the whole "death penalty" thing - which it seems this thread is going to very fast - I believe the OP described a great adventure in XI that he experienced not as a level 50 or what ever the level cap was at that point, but as a mere level 10. From just reading this, I wish I was there myself.

Now please don't slander me or anything else, but I believe XIV from what it started as to what it is now, has made a giant leap. There are things we aren't all going to agree upon and things we will agree upon. The major thing we need to pull out of the OP is not the death penalty - which everyone seems to be focusing on which is beyond me - is that of the lack of adventure, the lack of surprise, the lack of suspense, the lack of challenge etc.

I agree with the OP that the game defiantly needs some things added to it, however, I agree with the "troll" that yes it is a different game, it isn't XI. If there is something you want, like the adventures of XI then try to make it work for XIV. If we pull anything out of this whole entire thread, it is the lack of .... that the game has to offer. In the end, it will be up to the developers to decide what they put in and what they think will be worth it. All we can do its voice our opinions.
I'm right there with you and agree and like most of the high adventure that was in FFXI and is not in FFXIV. However the op has made it clear that he thinks it was the death penalty that made it that way and not the great content that FFXI had and FFXIV lacks.