FFXI Outline and Future

[Vold]

I hope they do new music in the reboot of the reboot of FFXIV. For some reason that music got on my nerves... maybe it was too repetitive. But then I say that assuming I ever bother with the game. Also, when they say the games will co exist I wish they meant it and not 14 gets 250 people working on it while 11 gets like 10. It's just fricking wrong to not want to conserve your success in the other MMO. I'm just wondering how long will it be before they wake up and realize, oh shit we dropped the ball not only on 14 but on 11 too by ignoring it. Too late.

[Buffy]

I hope they do new music in the reboot of the reboot of FFXIV. For some reason that music got on my nerves... maybe it was too repetitive. But then I say that assuming I ever bother with the game. Also, when they say the games will co exist I wish they meant it and not 14 gets 250 people working on it while 11 gets like 10. It's just fricking wrong to not want to conserve your success in the other MMO. I'm just wondering how long will it be before they wake up and realize, oh shit we dropped the ball not only on 14 but on 11 too by ignoring it. Too late.

These repeated tin-foil hat posts complaining about the # of people developing ffxi or programming the future or creating new content are getting beyond old. This game is 10 years old (roughly from Beta in Japan), which means 15 years ago someone had an idea for a great game, and then made it happen. You've had fun playing, SE has made a killing off subscriptions.

They aren't going to invest a DIME (or more accurately, a yen) into the game they aren't going to get back. They haven't dropped the ball on XI, the last update was considered lame because the previous 3 updates all included abyssea, which also had a cost associated with it. So in return for your normal subscription fee, you got a new level cap increase, new magian trials, and new levels to voidwatch, expansions to GoV and tweaks including the automatically repeating GoV option, a host of new items, and a revamp of the CoP Dynamis system (Which if you jumped on it early, should have made you 15-20m gil or about 25% of a stage 5 for a relic, before they adjusted drop rates).

You're getting new content, and varied content for people of different play styles and difficulties. It wasn't another abyssea add-on, because it wasn't supposed to be.

FFXIV has 250 people because they are trying to make it work right. Its rare to say a single game can turn a company's fortunes, but SE has a lot of eggs in that basket, and they have a responsibility to their shareholders to make that game turn a profit at some point in the next five years.

What *I* wish SE would do is release more add-ons like abyssea (not the abyssea style, just additional content). I don't mind paying 20-30$ a year for new content with the length and breath of abyssea. Think about it - abyssea changed ffxi permanently. How we level, what's a proc, jobs, balance, everything. And it happened over the course of 9-12 months for 3 $10 add-ons. Charge me that much extra every year for new content, and I'll happily keep buying crack. The monthly fee maintains the game, extra charges pay for additional content - this makes sense to me.