What was FFXI like when that first launched?

[Reika]

The first days of ffxi were nightmarish at best... btu the game WAS FUN.

FFXIV, decided to scrap all the good things ffxi and restart a train wreck...

Ffxiv is like being the dude with the vision of the catastrophe thats coming in Final Destination movies. Meaning that if you had stopped to WATCH you could have avoided all the messes.

However, crafting in FFXIV started WAY better than FFXI started. I didnt even bother with it in ffxi when I played it. There were SOME improvements over FFXI.