FFXI needs to invest in better servers

[Tehant]

FFXI has too many issues for players to enjoy the game giving us limited access to the Auction House and ability to play cross servers on another platform. FFXI made 42000/2x12.79$ a month at one point recently. They made an awful lot of money to not update their servers so we could go cross server party matchmaking and put as many items on the auction house as we may have wanted. That's 268,590$ dollars. They seem as if they shouldn't be paid anything but minimal wage and have multiple games to support their money grabbing habits. If anything, limiting our access to the freedom of other servers is not successful that makes this a lonely and dead game. They either put up, or shut up, and stop creating more updates if they will not make the game useful and fun to all.

[Uroah]

They have been and are "updating" the servers. From physical to cloud.

The issues are data delivery, not the servers. Still capping out at 1998 level dial up connection. That's what needs to be improved upon.

[Tehant]

12.71* btw

[Tehant]

42000/2x12.71=3,202,920 a year better, servers as in cloud and they need to be more useful and allow play across servers. Bad game, and too much money is made for it to be so useless and alone stuck on a server with not very many players or the ability to play with all without having to spend more money.

[Alhanelem]

They kinda just did.

The issue is that the game is designed around an era 20+ years ago when most people were still on dial-up internet. The game was designed to accomodate those kind of connection speeds and it would basically take a total rewrite of the netcode to properly support the levels of bandwidth available today.

[nixRidge]

What Alhanelem said.
Still drooling over a remake / updated client.. :rolleyes:
Yes yes I know it's not happening.