Will WoW Classic Affect FFXI Playability?

If anything it will impact ffxiv player numbers, which will also be impacted by black desert coming to consoles soon and pso2 is also launching next year to all platforms in the west.

Are many FFXI players going to try this out?

Of the 2300ish people online on Asura when I play in the evening (UK time) I bet about 1200 are afk, 700 are mules, 100 are RMT and there's only really ever 300 people actually online and playing. If 50-100 of those go to WoW Classic the game could be even more dead in EU time?

Tried almost every mmorpg. I will probably try classic wow too. In the end i will return to ffxi. New ffxiv expansion was not even able to keep my interest for a week for example.
There is no place like vana'diel. It just feels like home.

I like being addicted to ffxi tbh. There is worse stuff then watching your Moogle spin for hours in your Mog House.

pso2 is also launching next year to all platforms in the west.

If anything it will impact ffxiv player numbers, which will also be impacted by black desert coming to consoles soon and pso2 is also launching next year to all platforms in the west.

Second worst thing about wow clones is the world is completely pointless, you can sit in town and press a button on instance matcher (almost everyone will do this) and be warped into the dungeon when the 20-30 minute is up to make the party (unless you play tank or healer ofc and then it's 5-10 minutes wait). After you complete the dungeon and get your whatever rubbish you did it for, nobody says anything you leave and....you do it again over and over in a cycle till you log off.

Dungeon matcher is better than sitting in towns waiting for shouts, or having to stay in town to try to build a group, when you could instead be out soloing and LFP (in dungeon finder) at the same time. FFXIs archaic system was always mediocre and ham-handed.

Third worst thing about wow clones is constant gear replacement, every 6-12 months or so they bring out new dungeons with new gear that make all your old gear complete garbage. You literally just throw it away (even though you had to put lots of effort to get it) and jump on the treadmill again to get this all new gear and weapons that again will be made obsolete in 6-12 months again. while grinding all this new gear again you KNOW it will be obsolete in the next rotation, after a while this really starts to grind on you and leads to some people quitting when they cba to start again.

It's not that bad when you know it's coming. Nothing in Wow is remotely as hard to get as RMEABC were at their respective launches.

Sixth worst thing about wow clones is they keep wiping the slate clean and making all new content to do, ffxi builds on content and is always in addition to the other stuff. It's always been like that.

I began to wonder if you were trolling here. Especially with the other thing about being able to come back after two years and people still doing Reisen and Ambu.

FFXI is like this because of limited capacity dueto poor foresight, but it's hardly a plus.

Seventh worst thing about wow clones is quest based leveling, with stupid narrative quests you get from an npc that you never read anyway and are almost always the same boring trash over and over, they are really boring but you have to pay attention just enough to where you can't just switch off and nobrain your leveling (which makes it really damn annoying, far worse than mindless grinding of killing monsters for xp). They force you to move locations as and when they tell you, you go where they tell you and do what they say.

Some people like seeing the local area evolve as they quest through its story. Not me, I never cared about STORY, but I'd rather have story than solo grinding. I prefer party grinding above all but Ffxi hasn't been that in 10 years.

FFXI has much slower gameplay and it's less annoying because of that, it's more fun and relaxing to play cause you're not constantly pressing 1,2,3,4,5 or running out of red circles. It's an mmorpg, it's supposed to be more relaxing and goal orientated (whats the point playing a goal orientated game when they keep smashing up the stuff you work towards with constant gear "progression"?), if you want to mash buttons you can play DMC or something.

The world feels real because you have to goto places to do content, instead of just sitting in the afk spot and pressing instance matching.

I mean, it's book-warp/waypoint/whatever. Not like the old days when people would choco out.

A two-step hop is hardly superior than queueing up while in town or while solo-grinding.

FFXI servers have communities, even if it's "oh that guy is a potato", "that guy is a real troll" or "that person is a really good player who makes good groups" or "that person is nice", you really get none of that outside of your guilds on other games because most people do content in instances and don't really need to walk around the worlds.

FFXI's sense of community is more a thing of nostalgia. Most players aren't walking anywhere either and most content for the past 5 years has been instanced, or effectively so with participation-tags.

Your post seems like a lot of comparing what Ffxi Was to what WoW is, and what its clones copy.