Questions Regarding the Vana’diel Project

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Originally Posted by kylani

I'm confused by this note. I installed FFXI on my 8.1 laptop last December and also on a surface pro 3 a few weeks ago. It plays beautifully on the laptop and better than I expected on the Surface Pro without changing any windows legacy settings or anything else special that I can think of. I just installed, configured the display settings and joystick, and played. I thought it was easier than the past.

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There could have been some changes to the games mechanic's from the game creator's since I had problems to run the game Kylani as to why it worked so well for you or it could be just type of system you installed it on that allowed it to install easy. I hope you clicked on the link I provided as well?

I was just assuming the person I was responding to was having the same windows 8/8.1 problems I had to get the ffxi game to run on my windows 8.1 alienware 18 laptop from the pol viewer screen where upon hitting play ffxi an error message would pop up stating you need to have direct play installed to play this game. The windows 8/8.1 originally by default had Direct Play set/turned to off under its legacy settings where you had to go find it and click on the box next to it to put a checkmark into the box in order to turn it on.

Back when I having the problem to run the game on my laptop, I called SE's tech support without a ticket marker stating the problem as to the reason of my call and waited for at least an hour, maybe more for their response to my phone call but finally getting a person on the phone to respond telling them of my problem about it popping up the Needs to have Direct Play installed to play the ffxi game issue on my alienware laptop with windows 8.1, There response was sure its not recommended to play ffxi on windows 8 as it's not even made to run on windows 8 as of yet, so upon their wasting my time with calling in the first place, I went on a googling search to see what I could dig up on the problem that might fix the issue and also contacted an old ffxi player on my fb list which is good with knowledge to this type of stuff in which he directed me to the website link I have posted above and talked me through getting it to work but he had to know what type of set up my windows 8.1 was set up as for an operating system.

Just thought I'd add I dont play with a joystick, just my laptops keyboard as the software I've looked into in which allow me to use an very extremely old huge controller to play the game's softwares that i've looked into seemed to have a possibility to allow malware through it use of them.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello, everyone.

Thank you for all the questions regarding the Vana’diel Project.

The following is a comment from Producer Matsui.

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thank you for your Responce, im glad to see they will take some time to address things,

* Monstrosity
* change to finally get More banish spells ( IV, V , gaIII IV)
* will these mobile games be available to US market?
* chance to get Automation gifts to use Tier VI nukes?

Will they ever allow us to be able to pearl sack our characters on the same account since as of now as far as I know it we arent able to log into both characters on the same account?

With the change to mobile coming will they allow a feature where you're able to be logged into the same character on two different devices at the same time such as your pc and mobile device to make it easy to be staying in the game with an easy switching from one device onto the other device?
This would also allow us to pearl sack our other characters on the same account in which we are the leader to the ls with both/all characters on the same LS as well.

Will Monstrosity ever get any updates or content before NOV? Will there be ANY kind of content added after NOV at all?

Just something I haven't seen posted about yet: this seems to be the coming to and end of this game, but they are releasing this month the reforming of Empy gear. Why do this then announce the end of updates? Wonder if something else is planned. Who knows. Makes me wonder what to do now as I play on Xbox and own all Apple products at home. Sad day.

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Originally Posted by Pobls

Just something I haven't seen posted about yet: this seems to be the coming to and end of this game, but they are releasing this month the reforming of Empy gear. Why do this then announce the end of updates? Wonder if something else is planned. Who knows. Makes me wonder what to do now as I play on Xbox and own all Apple products at home. Sad day.

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sounds like you will need to update the Xbox or buy another console. that said, an old windows PC, bought used is actually likely to run the game BETTER than a new one as there have been serious issues with this game and certain newer video cards, although certainly not always. but an XP or earlier system will not only run it, but run it without the need for backwards compatibility features.

which begs the question, will older versions of Windows also not be supported?

now, my REAL question is whether there will be new expansion packs in the future? In my opinion this is the best MMORPG out there, including SE's other products, and as things stand the day they unplug the servers is the day I quit gaming, entirely. Of course, a new product COULD come out between now and then, but 14 isn't it for me, so it will have to be an actual new product of the quality of 11. and I don't see anyone working on anything that remotely fits that description.

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Originally Posted by Pobls

Just something I haven't seen posted about yet: this seems to be the coming to and end of this game, but they are releasing this month the reforming of Empy gear. Why do this then announce the end of updates? Wonder if something else is planned. Who knows. Makes me wonder what to do now as I play on Xbox and own all Apple products at home. Sad day.

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Macintosh computers since the Intel changeover in 2006, are able to run Windows natively via Bootcamp. Buy a copy of Windows for about $100 and install it on your Mac. Thney haven't said which platforms their mobile FFXI client will be on, but iPhone/iPad is a good bet given their past track record, as well as Android. Windows Phone and RT are more of a mystery.

I have been getting the news all day that you guys (SE), plan on getting rid of ffxi for good?! First Xbox, then you know what's going to happen.. pc players! You're going to make it into some freaken app or something! Is this true?!

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Originally Posted by Devon

FFXI Coming to an end?

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{I'm really "actually" hoping so, that it's coming to an end since i've found it hard to just move on from the game entirely to work on my social life to get it to back into being a healthy living social life again, to be honest.

why drop ps2 and 360 when you can just do a server marge and it dose the same thing. I just think its silly your loseing mostly whats left of your player base. the game is not going to last long on windows only how many people could be playing the windows only? + how much money you are going to lose.

They didn't listen when they released that disaster called FFIV v1, either. I don't think they'll listen now.

And I tried playing FFIV v2, but I just couldn't get into it.

A server merge is a waaay better idea than the current one. I know that the dev team wants to be over and done with ffxi, but there are alot of ppl that still play ffxi. I have asked some of my friends that still play, and most of them don't like ffxiv, cant play because of console issues. or just plain don't understad gameplay. Merge the servers! Make it free to play once you're done with it! Make it offline. You've pretty much made the game to where we can solo it alone, make it so we can play it offline. Don't just throw a great game out for good. Yes all good things must come to an end and we all should cherish our memories. I mean.. i met my husband on this game. I guess that's why I don't want to say goodbye, but I still think its a dumb move SE. When you're down to 1 server and only 20 ppl play, then I say.. ok.. time to kill this horse. There are still a good amount of ppl that play if you combine the servers.

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Originally Posted by Malthar

They didn't listen when they released that disaster called FFIV v1, either. I don't think they'll listen now.

And I tried playing FFIV v2, but I just couldn't get into it.

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Malthaaaa, thats FF4. Unless you mean FF4 remake for the DS!

This decision is likely not SE's alone. I think the console versions require special login server stuff from Microsoft and Sony, and with the consoles so outdated I think the console companies been wanting to retire that equipment for some time.

FFXI requires a working DNAS server to forward the connection. Xbox 360 passes it through Live. DNAS will likely shut down in a year. Live may not, but SE doesn't have to continue patching the Xbox client to match the PC client, which will cause a version mismatch and break the game on that console.

Are you going to answer any of the questions asked in this thread or is that JP only like everything else?

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What kind of PC improvements and functionality can we expect after the November update?

Can you please add support for 360 and ps3 controllers?

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Originally Posted by bazookatooth

Can you please add support for 360 and ps3 controllers?

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Um... this isn't up to them actually.
If you just install the right drivers you should be able to configure the gamepad just fine.

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Originally Posted by Shirai

Um... this isn't up to them actually.
If you just install the right drivers you should be able to configure the gamepad just fine.

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Yeah you have to do the work to make those controllers work on your system with the game or games.

Mainly wanted to state that I love your signature comment Shirai which reminded me of those toys or us commercial's: I don't want to ever grow up because I want to be a toys or us kid. I think even chucky cheeses did commercials like that? I know this not related to anything ffxi but just wanted to just say it really quick.

Number of questions that I can think of to say the least.

1) In regards to the updates after November its stated that there will be no more major version updates. Does this mean after November the only things that will happen will be just bug fixes and QoL adjustments? Or is the end of major updates just in regards to story lines themselves and new things like Dynamis for example might get added after this in post November updates?

2) In regards to the termination of Xbox360/PS2 with the termination of these services and the sole remaining platform being the windows system will the PC version simply just be maintained as is with just minor fixes or will things like the UI redevelopment, decommissioning of PoL, upgrade/replacement of the old game engine be looked at again?

3) In regards to server merges will these be happening for the less populated servers in the near future?

4) In regards to the future alot of people have felt that the announcement is basically a "sunset" for the game and that some of the console players even think the game is shutting down entirely. What people might want to ask is SE simply gonna wind down the game outright over time including the loss of all the lore or would they sometime down the road do an ARR style relaunch of the game retaining all the main campaign storylines rather than let a numbered FF drop out of existence?

5) Will SE ever impliment those remaining spells that players currently havent got access to for players enen tho mobs have them (examples: Banish 4/5, Banishga 3~5, elemental aga 4/5, Poisonga 2~5, Poison 3~5, Bio 4/5, Dia 4/5, Diaga 2~5)

6) Will SE reintroduce discounted subs for those concurrently subscribed to FF14?

7) Would it ever be possible to introduce a Race change feature?

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Originally Posted by Raiyara

5) Will SE ever impliment those remaining spells that players currently havent got access to for players enen tho mobs have them (examples: Banish 4/5, Banishga 3~5, elemental aga 4/5, Poisonga 2~5, Poison 3~5, Bio 4/5, Dia 4/5, Diaga 2~5)

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I'm really also hoping maybe through later BLM gifts maybe we'll finally see the spell Ultima.

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Originally Posted by YosemiteYogorockBlondelle

Wow, such anger and yet it makes wonder if it just gives them all the more reasons to possibly just give them the idea to quit the game...o.O!!

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Just being 100% honest with them. Accepting criticism only makes us all better. If it's all shutting down after Nov then I don't see any reason to pretend that they are meeting expectations and can do alot better than themselves and even Capcom.
My apologies. I ain't speaking to praise thier past accomplishments. I want more of the best of SE online.

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Originally Posted by Raiyara

Number of questions that I can think of to say the least.

1) In regards to the updates after November its stated that there will be no more major version updates. Does this mean after November the only things that will happen will be just bug fixes and QoL adjustments? Or is the end of major updates just in regards to story lines themselves and new things like Dynamis for example might get added after this in post November updates?

2) In regards to the termination of Xbox360/PS2 with the termination of these services and the sole remaining platform being the windows system will the PC version simply just be maintained as is with just minor fixes or will things like the UI redevelopment, decommissioning of PoL, upgrade/replacement of the old game engine be looked at again?

3) In regards to server merges will these be happening for the less populated servers in the near future?

4) In regards to the future alot of people have felt that the announcement is basically a "sunset" for the game and that some of the console players even think the game is shutting down entirely. What people might want to ask is SE simply gonna wind down the game outright over time including the loss of all the lore or would they sometime down the road do an ARR style relaunch of the game retaining all the main campaign storylines rather than let a numbered FF drop out of existence?

5) Will SE ever impliment those remaining spells that players currently havent got access to for players enen tho mobs have them (examples: Banish 4/5, Banishga 3~5, elemental aga 4/5, Poisonga 2~5, Poison 3~5, Bio 4/5, Dia 4/5, Diaga 2~5)

6) Will SE reintroduce discounted subs for those concurrently subscribed to FF14?

7) Would it ever be possible to introduce a Race change feature?

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I know you weren't asking me but they already answered this in the stream. There will be NO MORE UPDATES aside from occasional tweaks like bugs/balancing. Unless they decide that "balancing" entails giving us banish 5, it will come by november or never. And you know job balancing is one of those things they bury in patch notes. There sure as hell won't be a relaunch like ARR

You will be better able to let go if you think of november as the end of updates period, which it basically is, and stop asking/expecting new things

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Originally Posted by Devon

A server merge is a waaay better idea than the current one. I know that the dev team wants to be over and done with ffxi, but there are alot of ppl that still play ffxi. I have asked some of my friends that still play, and most of them don't like ffxiv, cant play because of console issues. or just plain don't understad gameplay. Merge the servers! Make it free to play once you're done with it! Make it offline. You've pretty much made the game to where we can solo it alone, make it so we can play it offline. Don't just throw a great game out for good. Yes all good things must come to an end and we all should cherish our memories. I mean.. i met my husband on this game. I guess that's why I don't want to say goodbye, but I still think its a dumb move SE. When you're down to 1 server and only 20 ppl play, then I say.. ok.. time to kill this horse. There are still a good amount of ppl that play if you combine the servers.

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They are just ending updates, not killing the horse. No company can churn out updates for a game with 30 ppl 1 server. In addition they want what's left of the dev team to focus on 14 and/or DQX. That's their prerogative

I agree they should merge servers and probably will once they get a gauge on how many may renew for this "finale" and that it should be F2P or bare minimum fee to support the servers, once updates end

yes but how many people will continue playing with no updated content?

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Originally Posted by Malefactor

Your assumption does seem realistic, based on the process and timeline in which FF14 was introduced. However, if i were the one making the decision, and I dont presume I know the intricate methodology of their business, I would simply cut down the development drastically, BUT continue developing the game and continue reaping profits, because it in fact has proven itself to be very stable given the sheer amount of time people have been hanging on to the game.

It wouldn't be a great loss financially to divert a majority of the developers over to 14, if they so wish, and simply create a schedule of perhaps one content update every 2 years, even once in 3 years if they like. That in itself would not be received extremely well by the community, however the psychology is sound in that people see a foreseeable future for the game.

To hope that some of the 11 players will move to 14 long term is a risky endeavour at best. Essentially if 11 players move on, there are no extra profits involved in that it's merely swapping one subscription for another, and the high likelihood that a lot of people dont even move over and either stop gaming or play other games.

In addition, they absolutely must see that FFXI is a game that holds extreme longevity, and that the theme park model of ff14, while very well received at the moment, may not offer similar longevity, given the lack of socialization and community, which is pretty much what binds people to a game in the first place. It seems a terrible mistake to bank everything on ff14 on the premise that at this very point in time, it offers higher margins on a sales chart. That seems to be like a horrible lack of foresight and a risky gamble.

Of course, if ffxi in itself is not making any profit and creating losses, then i fully understand their decision. However, in comparison with other games, we can safely assume they are making a profit, even though small. They just seem to not want to be bothered just to earn smaller profits, and in the end alienating their loyal players and creating distrust. In the end, is that worth the damage to their company reputation as a whole?

If they could do this to ffxi, I wouldnt want to go to ff14 either, because it's a vastly more volatile game by way of subscribership and they could shut that down at any point in time too.

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I agree with a lot of what you say, but even an update every 2-3 years, for it to keep anyone around, would have to be expansion caliber. That costs millions and the PS2 which half of jp plays on, cannot handle further updates.

If i were in charge, from a business PoV i would do 2-4 updates a year plus at least more iLvL phase, until down to 30k subscribers. However...perhaps they also feel it would be dishonorable to update the game after PS2 is done. Keep in mind this game started in japan on PS2

14 has been increasing subscribers. It simply has newer graphics. A PS2 era game isn't going to appeal to new gamers, no matter how enjoyable it is to the rest of us. So in terms of longevity, 14 may or may not succeed, but 11 will never have over 100k subscribers again. That's why investing in 11 is a far greater risk

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Originally Posted by Krysten

yes but how many people will continue playing with no updated content?

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Look at how many kept playing as ToA ended and WotG was a huge letdown, all the way to abyssea. With CP updates, skirmish, the coming update, the "finale" - that could all sustain for a year from now. Then you have the usual grind after that, which, who knows but some will want to try out new R/E/M if nothing else

I'd say the answer lies in whether it goes free to play and if trust boost allows us to solo more

not the same thing lol there were updates in the game itself... when there are 0 world wide it will be a huge difference

i dont think levling is the problem per say i think its money, the game revolves around the AH so they need to significantly boost NPC if you sell items or merge servers

i think it will be like SW galaxies youll have a fan base that stay but the numbers wont be there yet they say they will continue to make windows a good expirence... but how without any updates?? new graphics? some other way?

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Originally Posted by Shirai

Um... this isn't up to them actually.
If you just install the right drivers you should be able to configure the gamepad just fine.

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It is up to them. The game doesn't support input from the triggers. They can fix that on the game client. People shouldn't be required to install unsigned third party drivers in order to use the most commonly owned game controllers on the planet.

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Originally Posted by Krysten

not the same thing lol there were updates in the game itself... when there are 0 world wide it will be a huge difference

i dont think levling is the problem per say i think its money, the game revolves around the AH so they need to significantly boost NPC if you sell items or merge servers

i think it will be like SW galaxies youll have a fan base that stay but the numbers wont be there yet they say they will continue to make windows a good expirence... but how without any updates?? new graphics? some other way?

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Star Wars Galaxies is gone outside of private servers. Those DEVs were so stupid and hurtful to their fans. I loved SWG pre-CU and I quit shortly after that since all my friends left. The P servers are still there. I remember I logged in to retail once to see how it was and my city was gone. I looked around and found one person and they were really desperate to make new friends and get me to join and they kept repeating please don't quit and are you going to quit? I joined them but eventually had to stop playing because I was bored and found FFXI more fun. I kept thinking to myself, wow I hope that never happens to FFXI and I guess it might lol. Anyways, they have private servers still up for that, I've been meaning to give it a try.

I demand Monstority to be finished lol i want to play as Bstmen before i quit forever haha.

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Originally Posted by Akihiko_Matsui

Hail, adventurers! Matsui here with an update for you.
We are pleased you all enjoyed the press conference in which we showcased our aspirations to bring forth a joint collaboration between SquareEnix and Capcom called Final Fantasy Monster Hunter Online. The combat will be of Capcom's design and Monster Hunter glory while the storyline, mythology, and universe of Final Fantasy will fill in the void that is missing from past iterations of the Monster Hunter franchise. We hope you all enjoy our new MMO titled Final Fantasy Monster Hunter Online due out sometime in 2016.
We would also like to announce our prolonged commitment to FFXI by expanding the Vana'diel universe with FFXI 2.0 due out sometime in 2016 as well and both games shall be PS4 and PC exclusives. Enjoy!

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Ftfy. No offense. If translated into Japanese and posted on the Japanese threads they would all go bananas over such News. This is the conference news everyone wanted to watch ._.

You know that Final Fantasy and Monster Hunter are two different games, right? If you want to play Monster Hunter, why don't you just go play that?

Why are people saying there is only 30 people per server. There was over 1500 last time I signed on. That is plenty crap even ultima online and rag online are still going and they have been on forever. With barely any player base. I'm really interested in this 2.0 was that a joke or is it seriously in the works.

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Originally Posted by Suteru

You know that Final Fantasy and Monster Hunter are two different games, right? If you want to play Monster Hunter, why don't you just go play that?

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You understand the word "Perfection"? Cause that's exactly the possibility of what would occur with such a collaboration. My comments are more to spark some interest amongst the Devs themselves so heh. I'll just play both since I'm aware how great both franchises are. Thanks for the input. The insight was impactful.

I hope we get a Quadav Trust so we have the big 3 of bstmen lol (tho id prefer more bstmen trusts of all, blu soulflayer maybe?)

Also, id love the chance to be able to call forth more trusts even if its jsut limited to one support (*star sibl, sakura etc)

most people arent gonna lvl jobs anymore so it would be awesome to get fill that whole party slot up

I saw a similar questions asked but I feel its important to ask these again:

After the console server has been shut down will the windows version of FFXI get an major updates in the future?

If the demand is there to continue this game on windows for years to come, would there be a chance for Xbox one and PS4 port?

Is there chance of revamping like what what was done with FF14?

If the game is ever shut down for good is there a chance to release a offline version of the game? This way we can revisit or favorite zones and listen to the great music?

In the new content can we have new and exciting zones? Ones that build of previously mentioned zones in previous expansions?

Can there be new summons for summoner?

Are there going to be server mergers?

Are the achievements on xbox 360 version of the game available through the windows version?

Is it possible to release a physical memento to final fantasy xi and do a preorder setup to see who is interested in buying such a thing?

I would love to see this game stick around. I love this game and I have made and met so many special people playing this game. I do not wish to see it go away/have no new content added to it.

There was some discussion from the devs on improving certain areas of the game ex: redesigned Mog house, visual effects to resource(mining/logging) points in original areas etc.

I'm just wondering if ideas like these will be short listed now so you can fully focus on Rhapsodies of Vana’diel?

Also where is our damn Black Belt v2:confused:

We went nearly 8 months without updates before ToAH and we did fine. Alot of us have been through the muck with this game but we stayed strong. Simply put we love this game, it is part of our lives and memories, and we just do not want to give up this old horse for a new shiny one. To all of you under the assumption the game will end if they stop major updates, It will be around longer then you might think so stop worrying about something you cant change, the only thing you, and all of us can really do is...play. They can always change their decisions like they have many many of time. I love this game and I love all the people in this game, even the people I cant stand because you just made me stronger over the years.

Dear Mr. Matsui,

Love FFXI like we do.