State of the game and direction of the game after Seekers of Adoulin are we shutting?

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Originally Posted by Pebe

Alot of people keep saying Delve isn't challenging, but have you actually went and tried the bosses? They are pretty challenging. The way delve was supposed to play out was in three different stages. Stage 1, beat the T1-T3 NMs and farm plasm for armor. Stage 2, beat the T4 and T5 NMs, and farm plasm for weapons. Stage 3, put all your effort into beating the bosses. The majority of people stopped after beating the T4-T5 NMs and didn't even attempt the bosses. The bosses are what is the most time consuming and challenging of the delve content, but a lot of people feel like they can't be bothered because the spike in difficulty is too high, when that was the whole point. They then say they are bored with delve, or completed the delve content without really tackling the largest part of said content.

Furthermore, in the next update coming out soon, we will have the following the remainder of the Seeker's of Alduin zones and wildkeepers released(Well probably except the seventh special one). A big part of the story released. Artifact weapons and gear for the new jobs, merits for the new jobs. 5 new sets of armor from skirmish v2, whose content lvl is higher than delve t1 NMs. Weapons which will be augmentable comparable to delve weapons. The elemental magic update, and i forget what else, that is all of the top of my head.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make by mentioning the above is that SE was focusing on releasing the rest of the expansion first. With the areas fully realeased, I'm sure SE will have much more time/resources to work on other things they promised. For instance, the update following this coming update I expect SE to make good on a lot of their promises. IE: Relic upgrades, new summons, new 2hrs, bst and smn upgrades (might be coming in this update coming soon), monstroity, tier 3 merits etc, more storyline, and perhaps the final seventh wildkeeper. There will also probably be delve v2 in the new areas.

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Yeah, they messed all this up. You can blame the players all you want (Stockholm Syndrome?) but the fact of the matter is that the players couldn't have done everything wrong if the devs hadn't made it wrong in the first place. Murphy's law and a bunch of other things of that nature apply to this.

Common sense as well as history tell us that if you make people do x in order to get to y, eventually most people will have y and there will not be enough people left to do x any more. They did so many things to accelerate that process that it's ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by Edyth

I don't know what the hell the thread title is trying to say. Can I have it again in standard English, please?

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I'm pretty sure it was supposed to say "State of the game and direction of the game after Seekers of Adoulin are we shutting down?"

Implying that the devs have no further plans, or something of that nature.

Unfortunately i was not able to fit everything in the tittle.
State of the game and direction of the game after Seekers of Adoulin, are we shutting down?

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Originally Posted by Ziyyigo-Tipyigo

Adding new content that once again requires an Aegischain is not "fixing Paladin."

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just throwing this out there.... comparing content intended for people progressing vs people at the top already the ones using paladin with ochains are the ones who've been OP'ing the game for awhile... if you read strategies for when people were trying to take down delve bosses they were dieing alot....they won them by zombieing.... doesn't that say something?

With ff14 actually being fun and good and that they added alot stuff. That people in ff11 wanted fixed in ff11, I would say this game got until Nov. and Then they need to look at it decided if this game no longer profitable and if there going just shut it down or design a way to add profits back in to the game. With putting in a free to play model to get some those users from ff14 to still play this game from time to time and get a subscription for a month for ff11. Ever so often for ff11. Say by jan 2014 game be shut down unless they do something drastic from here on out.

I know many people will be like I am never going leave ff11 , but as more and more of your friends in the coming months move over to ff14 . You are going to either give up on the game from the low population or miss the old days and quit for some time or move over to ff14 also.

I think they just gave us seekers to make a quick buck to help get some money for ff14. Reason there just throwing out all this stuff so unprepared for SoA. To keep as many people as possible till ff14 launches.

IMO: I think ff14 is going to become a mainstream game over in japan. In NA markets it going to become a strong contender for a mmo on the more mainstream side even with the subscription base since most final fantasy fans are over the age of 25 now days and they can afford it. Since it going to bring in a lot of the final fantasy fans , That typically never played any real mmos before. That will enjoy ff14. Not the elite pc side or hardcore pc side of the mmo market though will ff14 be big for some time since feels to casual to that group of people.
So there is still a chance ff11 can keep succeeding and making them money.

Sad to say this but I use to believe that I'd never drop from FFXI until SoA pretty much killed my motivation to work on Mythic, Relic and other long time consuming quests after delve allowing everyone to easily obtain items more powerful than previous content.

Only reason I'm interested in moving to FF14 is the fact that its new, reading way too many positive reviews, it looks like it will be the next big thing but because it seems to have been given way too much overhaul attention and correction of the many things we endlessly cried help for.

Who wants to play basic games off a pentium with 256 RAM when you can play bigger and better ones off a 6 Core with 32 Gig of ram, 52 inch TV? PS2? People still play off that? O.o technology is not the same as a decade ago.

Unless SE does a major overhaul on FFXI moving the game over to PS3 platform and pump in the same attention it did to 14 after 1.0 failure, this game will continue to hang on a limb with its limitations due to PS2 standards.

Final Fantasy XI : Impending Doom. (Coming Soon, Please look forward to it!)

This game will never get a Major Overhaul, Can you imagine the cost to convert eleven years worth of content to an new engine?