Seekers of adoulin information updates where?

[Hashmalum]

They did state in a post a long time ago that the dev team for 14 has nothing to do with what happens with xi dev team (and vice versa). But having said that, they are likely running xi on skeleton staff.. which is why it takes so long for anything to get done

They were lying, of course. Neither their income, their financial reserves, their skilled development personnel, nor their managers' attention are unlimited; each of these things must be divided up among all their projects. In their report to investors--one of the few places where they are actually obligated under penalty of law to tell the truth--they admitted that the push on FF14 has harmed the rest of their development substantially.

[Llama]

When FFXIV fails they will try to fall back on FFXI and realise they left it too late.

as a longtime 11/14 player, I totally agree. Not because 14 is bad, it's just that 11 is KING.

[Neoraxis]

its going to be weird to launch ffxiv ARR and new ffxi expansion on the first/second quarter of 2012,just my opinion.

i think the expansion is coming on the third/fourth quarter.

[Elexia]

The FFXI players have long since been considered addicts and given very little respect, "put out anything, they will buy it" applies and the money is mainly to fund XIV anyway, none of it will be put back into making this game better.

Blame the people who bitched about the mini-addons.."Don't nickle and dime us!" and still bought the shit..but yes it's not a theory that XI pretty much has no dev team next to any other real projects while they work on XIV ARR.

all they care about is the potential XIV players. They used to care about us but but they really don't anymore

They used to care about us until they tried to move on from XI, now they only care about the whiniest group of end-game players for this game.

I think this expansion should be free to players who've had an account for atleast over 1year to make up for they way they've treated us lately.

Free for those of us who played since JP beta and you got a point.

[Damane]

They used to care about us until they tried to move on from XI, now they only care about the whiniest group of end-game players for this game.

they actually started to care for FFXI extremly when FFXIV initially failed hardcore on its launch. I remember back then Devs correcting stuff in FFXI in lightspeed, fixing things in abyssea/outside of abyssea that was annoying etc etc etc.

I'm not gonna touch another SE MMO. While I do understand to some degree that our monthly fees go somewhere else, it seems that lately (the last 1 year+) our monthly fee went everywhere ecxept into FFXI. This pisses me extremly off. We are paying for a service that is castrated to its core, because our money flows into another product instead of actually pushing content out for the product we pay for.

I was actually willing to give FFXIV another chance after SE cleaned so nice up in FFXI when FFXIV failed and listened to the playerbase and made really good decisions gameplay/gamedesign wise. But the last 1.5 years have been a nightmare again, filled with unneeded timesinks/RNG/limits to entering battlefield (new legion and new einherjar) over and over and over again. So i think FFXIV wont be better in that department. My guess is if FFXIV relaunches successfully and stays successfull until it gets its core playerbase, it will go down the same road like FFXI: getting filled with needless timesinks and bullshit.

[Sotek]

its going to be weird to launch ffxiv ARR and new ffxi expansion on the first/second quarter of 2012,just my opinion.

i think the expansion is coming on the third/fourth quarter.

How would it be weird? If they release them both at a similar time they can get people playing, and more importantly paying, for both. I know people playing XIV who are at least interested in SoA and I'm aware of plenty of people who are going to try out XIV after the End of an Era trailer alone. I find it hard to believe most people currently playing XI (people who obviously aren't that jaded by SE) aren't at least somewhat interested in seeing what their subscription fees have been going towards.

That said, I doubt SoA will be released until AAR is out. If they're smart, they'll wait until some of the developers working on XIV can move over and fix all the awful decisions they've made. If they're not, well... When Boost adjustments are set back several months I highly doubt their expansion is going to be on time, that 2013 promise from the trailer is probably more of a 2014 at this point.

[Afania]

That said, I doubt SoA will be released until AAR is out. If they're smart, they'll wait until some of the developers working on XIV can move over and fix all the awful decisions they've made. If they're not, well... When Boost adjustments are set back several months I highly doubt their expansion is going to be on time, that 2013 promise from the trailer is probably more of a 2014 at this point.

If SoA release after ARR, FFXI will be dead after ARR for sure. Most player would probably flock to ARR, once they're settled and attached to ARR, even SoA isn't bringing anyone back.

P.S: Unless SoA is as amazing as ARR, but that's very unlikely.

[kingfury]

it has been nearly 6 months since the announcement of SOA and we have not gotten one single update as to ANYTHING about this expansion. no job demos, no area footage, no nothing. can you as a company, please do something to satisfiy your loyal fans dissatisfaction with the lack of information.

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Not sure if this counts for anything "official" but here are some of the SoA monster concept art from the FFXI wiki.

[Vivik]

I think this expansion should be free to players who've had an account for atleast over 1year to make up for they way they've treated us lately.

Free for those of us who played since JP beta and you got a point.

Bit too much self entitlement going on here, mixed in with a bit of hipster. Giving the expansion away would be pretty stupid in either case.

[MarkovChain]

They didn't touch anything, won't be out until one year.