FF11's growth limited due to FF14?

[Tezz]

FF11 has had it's time. But it's not time for it to "die". Everquest 1 for instance has seen 2 expansions per year (at times) & still releasing more. I mean, SE would be fools to never consider another expansion for FF11 ever again.

I think they are going in a great direction with modifying existing content. This needs to continually be done even after this year is over. I also believe test servers will serve as a huge milestone for the future of FF11 from here on out.

Does anyone know when they usually hold VanaFests? I don't remember if they were cancelled or not, just that they wanted to have FF11 & FF14 at the same event (but not named VanaFest anymore). If they were to announce anything, i think it would be there.

[Catsby]

Where would one find these credits?

Well I know there are no credits in any of the instruction manuals for FFXI/it's expansions. I snooped around POL viewer and found a staff role in the FFXI main menu but it wasn't very informative. It didn't list by expansion or system just department so it's hard to tell who is actively working. I don't have FFXIV so I can't help you there.

[Inafking]

Hmm, if I remember right, 14 took away the guys that gave us the unbeatable Absolute Virtue and square replaced them with the guys who gave us Abyssea. I don't see the problem. One of these days they're gonna look at the bottom line and either kill 14 or turn it in to 11. More than anything, I'm worried about them bringing the AV guys back. Everything they contributed is why I can't get my real life friends to play. Let those guys kill 14 and hopefuly square won't let them come back to 11.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Everyone keeps saying that.

FFXI:
http://pc.ign.com/objects/017/017388.html

FFXIV:
http://pc.ign.com/objects/842/842956.html

I'm not seeing it.

They mean when FFXI was first released it was just as bad as, if not worse than XIV's release (aside from having a AH).

[Shyla]

I've been playing FFXI for 7 years and still play. I tried FFXIV for a month and quit. Most user unfriendly game I've ever come across. I think the main thing holding SE back is their terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE customer/lack of customer support. Any other MMO I've ever played would not have me wait 4+ hours for a reply back from a GM. Is there seriously just 1 GM per server? If this game ever dies I will never play a SE MMO again just from my experience here and on FFXIV. More likely to play Rift or even WoW, though I dont even like it.

[Charismatic]

They mean when FFXI was first released it was just as bad as, if not worse than XIV's release (aside from having a AH).

Perhaps, but the state of MMOs was much different then... you can't even compare the two.
FFXI was not comparatively as bad as FFXIV is now. That argument might work if we were stuck in time since the release of FFXI but fortunately we haven't been!

[Neisan_Quetz]

FFXI on first release was horrible. Final Sting did more damage than KB's Meteor etc, cure was like invincible hate, stuff like that.

[Korpg]

FFXI will die only because SE refuses to listen. It isn't because it is an old game, but because they refuse to listen to their customers and fix the problems in the game.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

FFXI will die only because SE refuses to listen. It isn't because it is an old game, but because they refuse to listen to their customers and fix the problems in the game.

Or perhaps they donnot view them as problems.

[Korpg]

When a thousand people are having a problem with the game, then yeah, it is a problem.