Quote Originally Posted by Demacia View Post
Not really. I just seek the middle ground between the hardcore "Make it exactly like WoW/FFXI/Rift" crowd and the ridiculous "This game is great, it just needs a few tweeks!" horde. The state of this game just baffles me completely. What gets me is that the people who defend this game find the silliest excuses to back up their arguments. For example: In another thread a person plays off the black shroud's design by saying "Have you been to a forest? It's full of trees! You don't see temples every 50 meters". Really guys?

I quit FFXI for this game because I thought "Wow, after 6 years of playing this game SE will finally make a brand new MMO with brand new everything woo 2010". Force myself to trudge through the shitswamp that is FFXIV for 3 months before deciding that masochism wasn't my thing and went back to an 8 year old game that is somehow still more advanced than one that was released in 2010 by the same company. I just don't get it. Again, I don't want XIV to be an FFXI clone, but I do want that feeling of "Wow I can't wait to level up and explore this world" that FFXI (and even Everquest) provided.
To be honest, as i was reading through the posts, you haven't really made that clear enough until now. =o