FFXI HD?Follow

Would you rather SE continue to dump money into the lost cause that is FFXIV or just remake FFXI with the incredible graphics of XIV + dx11?

Granted, XIV was terrible at first, but SE is making very big strides towards a better game. The whole free to play thing is certainly helping a lot there.

to OP: keep "dumping" money into ff14, primarily because many of the changes that have already been made to 14 are to make it more ffxi-like.

ff14 is going to be an interesting situation, 99.999% of games are almost completely designed before any player(read: purchaser) actually gets his/her hands on it and the first year of ff14's existence is a case study in the problems that method can produce. overly egotistical directors/producers decided they knew what the consumers wanted, and they were proven to be VERY wrong.

the special circumstance is the massive financial and philosophical loyalty the SquareEnix company has towards their product. They will not allow it to fail. they'll be forced to accept less than a world smashing success yes, but failure is not an option. the active-redesign policy they've basically built from whole cloth means FF14 is a game that is going to be designed from the ground up with an entire community involved. not 12 guys in an office, but the hundreds/thousands of people who will actually play.

everyone who's actually played within the last 3 months or so all say the differences between the current game and launch are night and day, and they're not done with improvements, improvements that are largely community driven.

FF14 will never be a wow-/tor-killer like many have hoped, but success on the level of XI is not at all outside the realm of possibility. Those responsible for the failures have been removed, and the current devs entered with a humility that SE has been lacking for nearly 10 years. In the long run this will produce a better product, one worthy of being a numbered Final Fantasy.

XIV going back to subscription model in the next couple of months apparently.

http://ffxiv.zam.com/story.html?story=28027

It seems the PS3 Beta will be in mi-lated 2012. :(

And the free trial in late 2012 is planned for PC only. And the PS3 version won't be until January 2013.

SIGH.

I'd probably use a keyboard/mouse.

But my PC can't run FFXIV (or Rift, or probably TOR ).

That's not really surprising. I imagine that almost all of their effort is going into designing the future game, not optimizing the current one. They're going to need to launch a really intense ad campaign anyway.

I play FFXI back in the day... got to around level 30 before 1 day of terrible grouping caused me to de-level and be unable to find a group w/o selling all my newly aquired gear. I couldn't do it anymore and quit.

I just got FFXIV 3 days ago with a new Laptop to give it a try and see whats up....and It's feeling an awful lot like FFXI. Thank GOD they don't have experience loss on death... Unfortunately The community is identical to FFXI in that you cannot find someone to answer your questions or even have a 10 second conversation.

I hate to say it but, I wish it were more WoW like. I got addicted to wow for years of raiding. I absolutely enjoyed the leveling up, questing, social aspect, and dungeons. I've yet to find an Auction House in FFXIV, but I really wish there was something like that in FFXIV. And whats up w/ the item drops in FFXIV?! it's like 100% crafting based.

Which leads me to my #1 gripe so far. I really enjoyed leveling up in WoW and while gringing finding decent usable gear from drops, and the chance at rare gear. Thats what drove me to grind more. Even the Rare spawns were awesome to hunt! So far I'm not reading anywhere that FFXIV has anything close to this.


So to answer your question. NO I don't think they should remake FFXI with better graphics unless they also want to redo everything else with the game... but thats exactly what FFXIV is. FFXIV is a FFXI remake to me. And it's sucking hard for me. I really would rather stare at my blank desktop than start up the game at the moment.

So much for me picking it up just to goof around with outfits.