New Expansion in the works? Please tell us!

[wildsprite]

IF we are going to get new content it isn't likely to happen before they reboot XIV, till then they have mostly a skeleton crew of devs for XI and if the way they are handling XIV is any indication they want to make sure they can devote the resources to any new content to try to bring players. I'm interested to see how they will entice the players on both games honestly, because back when XI came out there were not nearly as many MMOs out there, now they really have to work for it to get new players and keep their old player base

will SE fix the issues with XI, I hope so but to be honest it really doesn't look like they want to bother at this point, but for a long time they have stated that XI will remain around as long as player interest remains, now that player interest is waning will they keep their promises? will they allow us to download the characters we worked so hard on so that should a home-brew server be made we can still use them? who knows, to be honest I have no real confidence in SE at this point, but I keep checking the official site, and the forums in hopes something good will happen and I will want to return to XI

[oliveira]

will they allow us to download the characters we worked so hard on so that should a home-brew server be made we can still use them?

Mankind will perish to a new ice age before that happens ... -_-;

[Phogg]

I made some new mules the other day in hopes they will be active long enough for MogBonanza.

The opening cut scenes really, as small as they are, reminded me how far this game has moved from being character and story driven to something of a perpetual item hunt. I realize there has always been items to obtain, but there was also a sense that you cared about what happened in the "world".

I would even forgive a certain lack of new zones if some decent story elements were revived. I keep hoping against hope that one day they will continue the original city rank missions or something along those lines.

/em votes yes for new story driven content.

[Zerich]

Everything in the game is story-driven. It's just that most people skip "walls-of-text" or decide to not like previous cutscenes and items together.

[wildsprite]

Mankind will perish to a new ice age before that happens ... -_-;

I only mentioned that because it was asked several years ago at either Vanafest or the Fan Festival and SE stated that they would find a way for us to get our char information, somehow with XIV though I doubt they will follow through with that

Everything in the game is story-driven. It's just that most people skip "walls-of-text" or decide to not like previous cutscenes and items together.

I for one enjoy most of the story lines, its part of the reason I played the game all this time, a nice rich story that a lot of people seem to miss

[Luvbunny]

They will have to announce something, soon, at least by end of summer at the very latest. Guild Wars 2 and Diabol 3 is coming, very soon, that will put a nice dent in their subscription numbers. With no future road map to look forward for and no big news coming to excite their player base - they are facing some sort of drop in subscription. Then again, perhaps they don't care, FFXI already made enough money for them that they can let it die and it won't matter for them since they are banking on FF14 version 2.0. Sad really, so many ways they can make FFXI to continue become a money maker. Heck they should just reboot it as FFXI Version 2.0 the HD edition, maybe once they shut down all the servers - they can revamp it and release it as the offline edition with some online capabilities

[wildsprite]

Are they going to reveal that Mithra's were always male?

just because its a silly question and my Ex and I had an odd theory, we didnt think Mithra were male at all, we always figured they were hermaphrodite and the male Mithra staying close to home was just a cover story, then they had to go and spoil that theory with the quests and missions in the WotG expansion...lol

[katz]

Ive just finished Dawn (finally) it has a great cs at the end of it. I love doing these and while I appreciate not everyone enjoys CS there are still a few of us who do. I would really love to see some revivals back to cs and quest type missions. The hack em and slash em crew have had lots of development for them about time some was back to stories.

[Luvbunny]

Well, if the first mini add ons were about missions, and the second one (abyssea) was about battle content, why not make the next mini add ons as MONSTER BREEDING where you can infuse the stats of the monster into the gears of your choice (ring, earring, back piece, neckpiece, waist piece). They already did an amazing job with FF13-2 and pretty much have the whole ideas of monster breeding down pat perfect, they can transform pankration and infuse it with monster stats breeding and infusion to create the perfect monsters with stats that can be infused to your 5 accessories and mix and match according to situations, think of it as "atmas" via monster breeding :P Basically taking the inspiration from two of the most successful game in Japan, Monster Hunter + Pokemon.

[Luvbunny]

There you go, they announced roadmap for 2012 - not sure if these are things listed for server testing and not implemented till 2013. But there are at least 2 more new battle content so to speak, and one of them is "monster" related where you get to play as monster.