your thoughts on the future of ffxi

[WoW]

Will XI have its' loyal followers/players? Sure, will it compete with the newer MMOs/Online games coming out in 14 and beyond? No(Don't see XIV competing neither, XI appears to be more engaging than XIV, imo).

I for one have grown tired; all of my friends were long gone. Have not been in a LS since the winter season.

I am particularly interested in other MMOs, SWTOR and Wildstar has my attention atm among a plethora of offline games. Black Desert, Destiny, Everquest Next, Kingdom Under Fire 2, The Division, No Man's Sky, and PSO 2, (PSO is always awesome^^) look extremely intriguing. Want in that Black Desert NA beta in 2015^^

As it pertains to XI, nah, I don't see this game flat out dying, rather, slowly dwindling. I'll say XI has more years left. Not gonna be in-game to see it most likely; cancelling this month, I have grown bored with XI tbh.

[DarkStoneDragon]

Thanks for the overall positive outlook,I have seen some good points in posts like the Facelift idea, that would be great and I would love to see that, as far as never going to happen? I think they would bring it if enough people want it.

[Draylo]

Will XI have its' loyal followers/players? Sure, will it compete with the newer MMOs/Online games coming out in 14 and beyond? No(Don't see XIV competing neither, XI appears to be more engaging than XIV, imo).

I for one have grown tired; all of my friends were long gone. Have not been in a LS since the winter season.

I am particularly interested in other MMOs, SWTOR and Wildstar has my attention atm among a plethora of offline games. Black Desert, Destiny, Everquest Next, Kingdom Under Fire 2, The Division, No Man's Sky, and PSO 2, (PSO is always awesome^^) look extremely intriguing. Want in that Black Desert NA beta in 2015^^

As it pertains to XI, nah, I don't see this game flat out dying, rather, slowly dwindling. I'll say XI has more years left. Not gonna be in-game to see it most likely; cancelling this month, I have grown bored with XI tbh.

Mhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sure you are. See you in a week or two.

As for OP, this game will be going on for a very long time. I really hope they do an HD touch up but it would require a ton of work I'm sure. I doubt it will happen but I know it would be amazing for the game.

[WoW]

Mhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sure you are. See you in a week or two.

As for OP, this game will be going on for a very long time. I really hope they do an HD touch up but it would require a ton of work I'm sure. I doubt it will happen but I know it would be amazing for the game.

You may see every now and then for a week or two, my sub ends in Sept 9th.

Edit: You are not even on my server, lol.

[Olor]

Wow you should send me some jugs before you unsub.... I'll give you money when/if you come back

[WoW]

Wow you should send me some jugs before you unsub.... I'll give you money when/if you come back

I will make you all of them; don't use them really, might as-well put em to good use; No charge, won't need the money, because I will be gone, lol.

[Pixela]

1) as long as they keep updating it, players will stick with it.

2) not going to happen, one of the major niches this game fulfils is that it runs on almost anything.

[Olor]

I will make you all of them; don't use them really, might as-well put em to good use; No charge, won't need the money, because I will be gone, lol.

I hope they buff bst and you come back ; ;

We should really do some sort of pet burn thing before you leave.

[YosemiteYogorockBlondelle]

Okay the niche problem for graphics to have the ability to fully become HD into 720p 1080p 4k-ultra high definition is stuff like consoles not supporting that feature and being out dated to it while more smart tv's/monitor, desktops, laptops with hdmi out even will have that ability to adapt much easier than consoles ever will simply because most consoles unless your a very techy guy who knows it well enough will be stuck with the graphics card and type of software they have been given when they were created among other tech that was put into them at the time which is how or why they will make there money off creating newer consoles as well.

Sorry getting a bit off topic but you can see what type of system ffxi is currently using to be played on and it's also partly why it has it's downfalls into having the ability to have upgraded graphics and if they did a remastered version of it, it would have to exclude certain technologies that it can be played on into having that ability to retain the higher or the ultra high definition graphics to be seen while playing the game. well just stating it can be based on the games prime/primary mechanics into what it is running on or primary mechanics to run the game.

Now for long term play of the game. We all know some of the obvious outcomes but i'm sure SE is seeing some players don't want to play ffxiv/other games or they've played it up to a point of being done with other games/ffxiv and not liking that play style of the game anymore thus they will just play ffxi for the long term.
Some will leave because of boredom or leave the game if all of there friends have left for other games and of course there are those players who will stay for the long run regardless of their friends\folks leaving or all ready left the game which they've known for quite some time.

Life's factors in our lives could pull the game down but will stay with the new player base and long time players who cant stand to leave the game since they are beloved of ffxi and it's changing play styles. meh, I guess i'm trying to say is this game will keep updating and changing because of its fan based feed back to the ffxi teams in order to keep the game running for a very long time to come which keeps the game in a power point edge into wanting to be played.

[Afania]

Will XI have its' loyal followers/players? Sure, will it compete with the newer MMOs/Online games coming out in 14 and beyond? No(Don't see XIV competing neither, XI appears to be more engaging than XIV, imo).

I for one have grown tired; all of my friends were long gone. Have not been in a LS since the winter season.

I am particularly interested in other MMOs, SWTOR and Wildstar has my attention atm among a plethora of offline games. Black Desert, Destiny, Everquest Next, Kingdom Under Fire 2, The Division, No Man's Sky, and PSO 2, (PSO is always awesome^^) look extremely intriguing. Want in that Black Desert NA beta in 2015^^

As it pertains to XI, nah, I don't see this game flat out dying, rather, slowly dwindling. I'll say XI has more years left. Not gonna be in-game to see it most likely; cancelling this month, I have grown bored with XI tbh.

Kinda off topic but....

The grass is always greener on the other side of fence, I suppose. You wrote 2 posts bashing FFXI, one of them is basically saying "job balance was beyond terrible so I'm quitting", the other one listed a lot of titles, most of them are either not out or viewed as terrible games by the gaming community - -

While I liked SWTOR a lot, most of the players hated it with a passion. And PSO2 was downright one of the biggest MMO disappointment I had in past 2 years(another one was TESO). Although PSO1 was what brought me into the world of MMO, that kind of game mechanic(which is the same as PSO1 and PSU with almost nothing new) seems outdated nowadays. Paired with class balance worse than FFXI, clunky controls, HDD data erase glitch in JP version, super grindy, shallow and repetitive gameplay.....lol at quitting FFXI for that shallow and grindy game. I don't know why would you bash job balance of XI in 1 thread then proceed to praise another game with even worse class balance.

While I dislike FFXIV, in terms of the overall quality, I'd say even FFXIV is 10 times better than PSO2. Well, your $$ and your choice, PSO2 is free anyways. I'm still waiting for a better MMO than FFXI for me to play, so far there's none.