Why Cant Final fantasy 11 get the same treatment?

[Catsby]

Don't kid yourself. SE would have plenty of money to spend on a handful of quality titles if they didn't piss it all away publishing crap titles every 2 weeks.

[wildsprite]

anyway, SE can't read minds and can't pilot the people's feelings: I'll never play 14 even if they'll do the 3.0 version of it, and I have a lot of friends who are thinking like me, if they shut down 11 I'll say goodbye to MMO, I don't restart from zero another MMO (fail like 14 too).

if 11 is still loved and played, a serious company HAVE TO continue supporting the game their customers want to play.

I totally agree with this and have the same attitude, 14 is fail, I tried it, only nice thing I can say about it is...well its shiny, that's it, I'm not going to drop XI to play XIV, I dont care how much work they put into it, when XI dies thats it for me

[Concerned4FFxi]

I understand your feelings about the differences between FINAL FANTASY XI and FINAL FANTASY XIV. Please understand that these games are very different entities and just as it was stated before, the operational policies as well as the size of the development team are very different as well.

Just to clarify one misconception I have been noticing for a while now...

"PS2 limitations" is not a factor for adding new areas to the game and we will in fact be adding new areas in the future, so please do not worry about this.

I LOVE YOU, that is so going to be my new Tag.

[Engel]

all the people that bought ffiv and spent a good bit of money to be able to play the game and the game ended up not being worth play or as much fun and enjoyable to play as ffxi. why would we want to change and put more money into ffiv and start paying more to play a game we didn't like to start with

[Lastranger]

The one thing im wondering about is if they are focusing on 14 and all the stuff there and planning to piggyback of the 14 engine and work for pc/ps3, and later try use that work to relaunch/rework Old code / limitation of ff11.

FF11 has a way smaller dev team but if ground work is done through 14, could it be posible to later have a ReCode team that isnt as big as u might originaly needed to go through FF11 game code/Graphics and refit it on the stuff made for 14, in a way doing 2 Remakes for the price of 1 and 1/2.

I mean they are allready making PS3 engine for 14 , why not work on making the 11 posible to run on it.
idk if the ps versions run on Opengl but if so, it could open for posibility of these games to have a unsuported client for Mac/Linux/Windows in opengl ( mayby even other devices such as Ipad/Similare products/smartphone)

Im not expecting FF14 full new graphics for a game with so much content as ff11 but it getting close to 10th aniversary, and MMO's just like a building need some Repair and remake afterlong time has passed since it was made, the ff11 game would be equivelant of a house having aged 100 years as software get's older faster the RL stuff.
In a house thats 100+ years u probably might need to do rewiring of Power/phone/data cables , Making walss thicker and floors might need rework of suport beam's etc in ordre to make it more in tune with todays demands of buildings.

Over the years u are sure to have Painted/putt new carpet's / etc in layers on such a old house just like MMO's have tons of Patch work, but after while u cant Patch stuff up anymore or put new wallpaper on before u remove the old, and a bigger restoration is needed.

Houses reap the benefits of investments into development into new houses by trying to refit new ideas into older buildings while still not having to build from scratch, yes its expensive but once u are done u wont need to do so for long time again.

Im not mad about the remake of 14 and i understand why they most likely took a lot of the FF11 team to have it remade, since it hasnt made money yet, but because more or less 11 is paying for that i would like to see 11 getting something in return at a later point of time from 14.

Also id like to say Kudos to the Dev team on 11 for their hard work even though they have been resized, i belive they are working hard to do a lot of work with less manpower then what they should have for a game like 11.
The redoing of UI was a pleasant surprize, hopefully we might get some more Tweaks done to make FF11 UI be more compatibale with modern graphics settings of today, only thing keeping me from running ff11 in a higher screen resoloution atm is the Super smal text and other stuff that dont resize well on bigger screen rez.

[RAIST]

it's already out that they are looking/working at a FFXI release for Vita. If/when that actually happens, it may open up more portability options to other platforms because of what is driving the Vita (ie: if they properly implement OpenGL for that release, it could eventually be a game changer).

[Xellith]

inb4vita limitations.

[Luso]

It's already been stated before that the PS Vita is roughly as powerful as the PS3; XI would need to be a lot more taxing on system resources like XIV is/was if limitations are to occur with the handheld. IMO, though, an MMO should never be released on a console.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Just to clarify one misconception I have been noticing for a while now...

"PS2 limitations" is not a factor for adding new areas to the game and we will in fact be adding new areas in the future, so please do not worry about this.

Just to clarify. A single dungeon dose not constitute as "adding new areas" in the player's minds. They are looking for full, expansive zones.

[Atomic_Skull]

With Tanaka talking about completely revamping the user interface and the talk about graphics improvements in the article on Zam yesterday I would guess that the PS2 will be shown the door before 2012 is over.