Possibly Could Be #1 MMO If Remastered :D

I beat this game years ago back when the level cap was 75. Got dragoon to cap in the worst era of FFXI to date for leveling.

Everything after that point is like replaying the game with cheat modes activated.

http://www.gamingunion.net/interviews/2017/an-interview-with-naoki-yoshida-about-final-fantasy-xiv-final-fantasy-xi-mobile-more

Contrary to what others claim about FF14 being a WoW clone, it definitely has grown its own style with Yoshida at the helm. I also now understand why they lock out casual players with the item level requirements before you can enter higher tier/end game dungeons.


I read that as "As long as players keep paying we will keep the power to the servers on." ><

XIV is garbage compared to XI, such a shame people can't see past pretty graphics. They should devote all resources to XI. :)

Almost no one would come back to FFXI even if they fixed everything wrong with it. Revitalizing FFXI would require a full rework of the engine, graphical assets update, character reset, and advertising campaign.

No Duty finder look what happened to WOW and FFXIV

FFXIV is the gold digger Girl that only wants pretty things from you :) (FFXI is your real love :)

They can just Create a whole game with POL like FFXI-2 (same old concepts from grouping to Enviornment interactions and FFXI2 (in another planet just like vanadiel and gaia is a planet in the FFVerse

Is the top thing on your list really Expert Roulette? The 24 man raids are meant to be a jokes, that's why the gear from there are always 20 ilvls away from cap. None of that is end game or even mid, that's just a list of the most basic things to do solo. High end groups definitely follow a set weekly schedule for events, and just like in any other MMO the hardest part is getting in.

Blizzard is all about customer service, hence giving in to vanilla servers. Square has always been about the experience that's built around a good story followed by meaningless grinding. The glory days of FFXI ended when players got "sick" from fighting PW for 18+ hours and made Yahoo news. (Details of FFXI's black eye can be found at Rukenshin's Livejournal.) Everything after that was designed around easy mode.

PS: The classic ffxi "glory days" game calendar looked more like Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun - Nidhogg/Tiamat/KB (and later on) Ixi/SW camping 24/7.

"Shotgun blast" Nidhogg POP. {Dragon's Aery}{Gather together.}

Just find someone level 75 level sync and do all the old content.

It still wouldn't be the same experience with all the formula/job patches they have done over the years. The joys of Mazurka tanking are forever lost.

When you think about it the odd job combinations (NIN/DRK RDM/NIN w/ Ceremony blades, RDM/BLU, BRD/PLD etc) that made FFXI different and require strategy have been nerfed to hell. They purposely killed the fun, bad customer service.

Who got time to do that ***on weekdays? Also pretty sure the glory days are now since there's more variety now.

There was nothing more glorious than watching someone pull darters.

I'd call this the "golden years" of ffxi. I see this game like a HoF fighter that has had an excellent career. It's past it's prime but its still got one more good fight left in it.

If you don't like the game then quit cause what you are asking for is not going to happen.

Now I'm curious, what am I asking for?

I don't know this thread happens almost ever day on here. People always looking to the glory days. Thinking everything was amazing in 2004 03 etc. Why people want to constantly re live the glory days on a barely there MMO are beyond me. Either play or don't play.

All I've given is my interpretation of the "glory days" (aka time sink) 04/05-ish vs their (what seems) 07/08-ish schedule and why Blizzard caved into demands. Anyone hoping for a vanilla FFXI server is a damn fool if they are forgetting how long things actually took to get done, hence the 18hr PW reference. That's what FFXI really used to be, why go back to dangling carrots.

I agree anyone that play the game back in the day will tell you no game should make you run constantly to get things done. Hell you would spent a majority of your time trying to get places. That is just bad game design. SE for all it's faults realizes that most people that play online games these days are casual. If they catered to the hardcore players only...they would miss out on a lot of money. So they try to balance content to fit what the players need. And for me they do a decent job of providing enough content to satisfy most players.

Exactly, the old Everquest style of grinding just doesn't fit anymore, but that's primarily what added to the rivalries linkshells had back then. The fun was in out-claiming the other guys but it wasn't fun when a Ridill or D-ring didn't drop again for the 300th time. While I do miss great odd ball combinations like PLD/BST the trade offs that come with un-patching the game back to classic 75 eras isn't worth it.

I honestly don’t see a problem with the game where it’s at now. The latest thing that kinda ruined some endgame is SMN burn, but it’s not the end of the world, don’t like it don’t do it. The graphics aren’t the problem I’d say if anything it’s lack of new expansions. But content is being released, new gear, campaigns. I think the game is fine where it’s at.

My biggest problem currently is the gear on the AH leaves a lot to be desired. Yes I think the best gear should be rare/ex but for the love of God give us a reason to buy armor weapons on the AH.

Aren't some su3 gear pretty good tho

Yea but the majority of the things people want are rare/ex and kinda defeats AH weapons/gear.

The biggest thing SE could do for FFXI right now would be to implement cross server player searches and allow for cross world parties.

They should also add the Congested Server/Free Transfer to Preferred worlds gimmick they have going in 14 to increase a few subs. Last I checked its something like double exp + a million gil or some junk for new players started on/transferred to said Preferred Worlds.

They won't do cross server parties etc cause that would require too much work...at that point they might as well work on an expansion.

Even if all they did was a cross server AH it would help out lower populations from having to transfer to buy gear that is never on the AH....which will never happen.

No, it's not. There are more than four things to do. Even for a casual player.

The problem with 14 is they create content to make it obsolete too fast. There is no point in getting excited about gear etc. When in a few months it will be obsolete. They need to use FFXI system of long term goals of gear / weapons. REMA etc.