So it looks like we're getting a new expansion or addon (pics. inside)

[Dieth]

Our NEW HNM!!

[tyrantsyn]

I do love taco's

[Reiterpallasch]

Geez, you call one idiot an idiot, their e-feelings get hurt, and they mash the report button to nuke the post proving they're an idiot.

I for stand by my opinion that olde FFXI required more skill than current, and I hope the new content goes back to requiring it rather than just being faceroll type content like our current endgame.

[Miiyo]

Calm down you guys, this thread isn't about e-peens.

It's about getting our hopes up and then making us wait very long periods of time before SE decides to crush our dreams by announcing that all 9 new zones will be released as separate expansions and that their only purpose will be to hold NMs used in a revamp of their Hunt Registry system, where the only changes will be that you have the chance of getting a stronger "Resist Poison +10" evolith by equipping a crafted-only item(made by 100 Synergy) that can only be equipped by SAM WHM and PUP.

You forgot to add that the "Resist Poison +10" ground breaking and game changing evolith is a circle shape and is only effective against rabbits... >.>. SMH. synergy has to be the biggest let down in the history of gaming. Who actually thought it was a good idea? "The gaming community will go crazy over how specific (limited) this gear is!" Fire him, then fire the one that approved letting this into the game. And of course they wasted some of the cooler looking gear on that crap, while Nares rehashes ugly ass goliard. That mnk body was cool as hell.

[Miiyo]

Changing ps2 space requirements from 12gb to 19gb was the first "hint" that an expansion was coming. The zones that are found only support that reasoning. 7gb is over half their current game space. Sounds like a pretty big expansion at that.

[Benihana]

in b4 no police

[mistmonster]

in b4 no police

Have not seen the no police in a few days, maybe they are on vacation!

[Ashido]

Either way a full blown expansion would be nice. but this is a decade old MMO. so i'll not get my hopes up. if it happens it happens , if it doesnt ill just go do something more constructive with my life, perhaps master making the ultimate bacon dish.

[Kaisha]

Either way a full blown expansion would be nice. but this is a decade old MMO. so i'll not get my hopes up. if it happens it happens , if it doesnt ill just go do something more constructive with my life, perhaps master making the ultimate bacon dish.

It's a decade old MMO with a declining population. You need to spend money to make money, and SE has gotten lazy on that for the past couple years. I also doubt development costs for XI are remotely anywhere near that of modern MMOs due to the lower expectations of the visuals due to the game's age.

[Nala]

Eh for the game to require skill again they need to look the elephant in the room in the eye, looking at you emity system. I'd agree that older content took more skill because you could actually coordinate who tanked, and NM's didn't spam i win moves. 5++ years later we have massive damage inflation a level 60 cap enmity system that they refuse to either adjust, acknowlage that it needs adjustments or all the above.

As far as the evolith system goes it could have had promise but it was "balanced" into obscurity and utter futility. If they revamped the way it functioned and alot of the limitations that existed along with adding relevant stats to evoliths it could be a very well received system, that said im going no police on myself because that would make too much sense for them to make something useful.