[YouTube] Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - End of an Era - Page 10

I also loved everquest is there something wrong with that also? and my argument had nothing to do with "copying games" as a matter of fact I even said id love it if they copy elements from ff11 A lot of people aside from em would love anything within this. i am on board with anything that resembled mmorpg of the past and absolutely minimal of the crap fest we have today. Hand me down/minimal effort/solo mmorpg/endgameonly/etc/etc. Se what happened to SWTOR by the way they tried to copy WoW also and look what happened. SE was best at what it used to do in creativity but trying to "standardize" their product will lead them to failure.

Id still keep what i said and wish they stay far away from it, hey guess what also COD is mainstream should SE also copy elements from COD to appeal the masses who only play for short time or attention spam is short as hell. WoW is old school already on top of that if anything they need to change the standard themselves and get creative.

P.S- I am also tired of people wanting another WoW clone after so many of the same turd fest have been released trying to make profit instead of making good games.

The thing that really bugged me was the server wide battles over NM spawns. Are their instances in this game? If they copy ANYTHING from WoW, please be instances for item drops.

Please have instances.

Hell, I stopped playing FFXI due to the "STILL" heavy competition in Abyssea for KI NM's and other things.

I know XI took a lot from everquest, i just really dont see the similarities of WoW in 14, unless those similarities will come out in 2.0 ?

I think part of the problem is trying so hard to NOT be WoW that new games are leaving out very important and useful features simply because people may identify that,"Oh, WoW had something like this..." It's just like South Parks with "The Simpsons did it!". Who cares! If it works, use it!

I would 100% say that any new and current MMO should feature instancing as a gameplay essential. It allows diversity between situations and a greater chance for world events or raid events to be beneficial to a larger group of people. Some MMOs do benefit from not instancing, but under unique circumstances and not simply because they didn't want a piece of WoW. EVE Online would be one example, as I don't believe they use instancing... but I could be wrong, I haven't played in a LONG time.

FFXIV just fell apart in a lot of places that simply just didn't fit right or were poorly put together. I played at release and beta and there was a weird learning curve with the UI and lack of real guidance on how to progress. I just sort of ran around and figured it out. The graphics were good and the story was ok... until the story just stopped basically after the 'prologue', and from there it was mindless grinding and I stopped. I still play WoW now and then, maybe 4-5 hours a week, but REALLY hope this game shines and comes back to life. We need a real alternative to WoW. The competition would drive both to improve themselves.

Now THAT is how i remember a final fantasy game being.

This is all I'm hearing from you:

"I have no problem if FFXIV copies elements from another MMO, as long as it's not Warcraft."

Again, you're letting your own personal bias and disdain for Warcraft impede your ability to judge things objectively and fairly. You're being completely hypocritical when you say you want FFXIV to copy FFXI or Everquest, but not Warcraft. The fact of the matter, which you seem to be ignoring, is that FFXI copied the formula of the most popular MMO out at its time (Everquest) just as FFXIV is copying the formula of the most popular MMO out right now (Warcraft). It's the same exact situation, no different whatsoever. However, you seem to think that it's acceptable for FFXI to be an Everquest clone, but that it's not acceptable for FFXIV to be a Warcraft clone. Double standards much?

You complain about how you want FFXIV to "change the standards" of MMO gaming and how you think Square should "be creative," yet in the same breath you say you want FFXIV to be more like FFXI. This is a completely redundant argument; Square never attempted to "change the standards" with FFXI, they just turned it into a clone of the most popular MMO out at the time, like they're doing now with FFXIV.


TOR is failing because it's a broken and buggy mess that churns out content at the speed of a snail due to the excessive amount of voice acting in the game, which subsequently is where the majority of their $200 million budget went. Instead of utilizing their budget more efficiently to improve the gameplay aspects of their MMO, they wasted it all on voice acting for every NPC in the game. Inexperience and poor management are to blame for TOR's failures, being a Warcraft clone has nothing to do with it. In fact, most critics praised TOR for refining parts of the Warcraft formula.


P.S. I merely pointed out the objective facts as they are, which you seem to be in denial about. I never said I "wanted" a Warcraft clone, I'm just saying that you shouldn't bash FFXIV for being a Warcraft clone when FFXI was just an Everquest clone, yet FFXI still turned out to be a successful game.

Although considering you're the type of person that thinks Abyssea "ruined" FFXI, I'm sure that everything I just typed will fall on deaf ears. You'll continue to ignorantly float around in that little nostalgic bandwagon bubble of yours where you think FFXI circa 2004-2005 was the best thing ever, and that Warcraft is the devil. You won't look at things objectively, you won't judge things fairly, and you'll continue to hate on anything that is even remotely similar to Warcraft because of your own personal bias and disdain for that game, and nothing anybody says will ever change your mind. You'll just go around watching videos on Youtube of like-minded individuals saying the same things you're saying now so you can continue to stroke your own ego and validate your own insecure feelings.

FFXI was actually pretty annoying pre-abyssea if you didn't have a huge LS. Or have alot of Japanese friends. Or both.

I don't care what they copy from what games, as long as what they do works. FFXIV copied things it didn't need and didn't improve on things that it drastically needed improvement in. You would think after FFXI they would learn to make a UI/controls that were fluid and didn't make you want to break your screen. But I guess a repeatable quest system that gives you things for free is more important.

I am playing currently playing through this game. The story is great, the turn by turn, I have to sit like 4 feet away from my monitor to not get confused with the speed of it.


Instances with drops, have been in xiv for a long time now. Since the NM were first started, which was months after the original release.

Agreed, Abyssea not only helped streamline the game so that more people could enjoy it, it also got rid of a lot of the artificial barriers that made the game unnecessarily difficult or time consuming. It was one of the best things to ever happen for FFXI, and this is coming from someone who started playing FFXI back in 2002. Don't get me wrong though, I still think that FFXI pre-Abyssea was a ton of fun.