Yeah,,,, I mean, I understand that Final Fantasy has always meant evolving, and that each game stands on its own merits. It's actually an amazing series for that point, that each game continuously changes and it was done by virtue of the fact that there was never going to be a 2nd game.

That being said, I love to go back and play these games. 20 years from now I'll be able to go back and play Final Fantasy I all over. But that won't be true of 11. Nobody will be playing it in 20 years. On top of that you have to pay membership fees. I can't just boot up the system and start playing.

So in that regards, it's a bit of a eye sore to me. I'm sure the game is great, but I'm a little saddened that I'll never play one of the games in the series and for that reason I exclude it from the core group. I know it's not my place to do that, but if they had simply called it Final Fantasy Online, and then Final Fantasy XIV they called Final Fantasy Online II, wouldn't you consider that to have been appropriate?

Crystal Chronicals, Tactics, X2, Dirge of Cirberous. Those weren't included in the main series, and for good reason. They were something different. And that's the way I feel about XIV. It's just not what the other games are.