Is FFXI getting a cash shop?

[Pixela]

There are really no NA teams as such, there are JP and there are English speaking. NA and EU has more than enough players to sustain the minor costs for a small GM/CS team (which work on XI and XIV btw).

The costs for this game are in the dev teams salaries, little else is noteworthy. The "gms" are just customer service agents, the old GM teams are pretty much gone. Cs agents aren't exactly high paid staff.

[Stompa]

I agree it really is time for the game to be given an end date. It has gotten old stale, boring. Watching the playerbase wank themselves silly over redoing af/relic armor to 119 it's time for this old dog to be taken out back and given the old yellow treatment.

In my office here are ZX Spectrums, ZX80s, C64s, Amstrads and Amigas, all built/bought by me in the 1980s. Also are around 500 cassette/disk games that are from the 1980s. Some of those games are still Cult Games, with fanclubs and active players - after 30 years. FFXI being online and actively updated for 12 years is an achievement, for sure. But 12 years is nothing if you are talking about players wanting to play the game.

If people like me are still playing 2D platformers and fractal games from 1983, and there are fanclubs full of players still enjoying these extremely simple and linear and depthless games after more than 30 years, what makes you think that game fans will not want to play a far more interesting and massive-depth game like FFXI, after only 12 years? FFXI has far more content and is a lot more fun to play than those 30 year old games, so what makes you think it won't have fans in ten years from now?

[Blazeoffury]

I'm sure fans like you will always exist i'm not going to deny that but this is an mmo, i guess they might have 1 na server then for people like you to play on but with how good ff14 is getting now and it's only going to improve i expect more of us to jump to 14 in the end.

[Comeatmebro]

same run-on sentences, attempt to use words above your education level, server, and 'if i can't enjoy it, you guys need to stop enjoying it' attitude

why bother posting on 2 accounts, it's transparent and nobody really cares

[Stompa]

I'm sure fans like you will always exist i'm not going to deny that but this is an mmo, i guess they might have 1 na server then for people like you to play on but with how good ff14 is getting now and it's only going to improve i expect more of us to jump to 14 in the end.

Seriously, if you enjoy FF14, that makes me totally happy. I really hope you have a great time playing it. Same with all games, and all players, I hope they find joy in their favourite games. 14 is a good game, it is just not my type of game.

The point here is that Lsd25 and yourself, are coming to the forum to say you hope this game dies. Lsd25 went further and said that gamers playing these games are fools and losers etc., and that he feels they are mentally ill enough to jump off bridges if the game stops running. These are bitter and toxic things to go around saying about people who just enjoy playing a computergame after work or school.

These are just insulting things to say, and I personally question your motivation, why would you take the time to come to a forum for a game you don't even like and say you want the game to die, and just flame the players and insult those attending Fan Events too.

I personally don't enjoy fishing, or golfing. But I don't go to Golf Forums and Fishing Forums and call the people there fools and losers and w/e, and say I hope their game dies soon. If they enjoy their game, thats great - I'm happy for them lol.

What surprises me is that this thread about basically having a cash-for-items system, people arrived in the thread and started all this player-hating stuff, and "we hope the game dies soon" stuff, which is totally off topic 100% and also not really a sign of a healthy mind. I like FFXI, when it is available I will pay for it. Other people like other games, I hope they enjoy those games. New games will arrive with better graphics and better playability than FFXI, but so long as this game is even available on a single server for die hard fans, I will pay for it, because I am a big fan of this game. I know a lot of other people who feel the same. If it stops existing, I will raise a glass of fine scotch, and toast the end of a great game. And then I will go play new games, or some of my back catalogue lol.

But at no point have I ever wished for any game to fail, or die ASAP, nor have I gone out of my way to insult the fans of games or try to make them feel bad just because they have a hobby they feel great affection for.

[Afania]

Another FF14 fanboy I see. I've been wondering why 14 fanboy often has strong hatred toward this game that they must kept trying to convince others to quit.

[Pixela]

I'm sure fans like you will always exist i'm not going to deny that but this is an mmo, i guess they might have 1 na server then for people like you to play on but with how good ff14 is getting now and it's only going to improve i expect more of us to jump to 14 in the end.

I've played pretty much every mmo there is, I still came back to ffxi after a 2 year break from FFXI after playing them.

FFXI still offers something these other "pretty" mmo titles don't, they are all pretty much WoW in disguise. If you dont' want to play that kinda of game then you won't want to play a ff skinned version of it. All those other titles have one major failing, they are dungeon grinders and very little else.

FFXIV hasn't been shown to have many more players than FFXI had at peak, and yes I've looked at subscription numbers given for both games. FFXIV barely bettered FFXI peak subscriber numbers.

[Blazeoffury]

Ok i'm done here. If you think ffxi is going to keep going then fine, I think 14 will keep on taking players the better it gets and that's all i have to say, carry on with your crying over a possible vaniety shop.

[Seillan]

same run-on sentences, attempt to use words above your education level, server, and 'if i can't enjoy it, you guys need to stop enjoying it' attitude

why bother posting on 2 accounts, it's transparent and nobody really cares

Haha, I was thinking this too. They also "both" just happen to be on the same server too with next to no prior post count...

I'm surprised he didn't like his own posts . Talk about a "dreg of society."

[Seillan]

Ok i'm done here. If you think ffxi is going to keep going then fine, I think 14 will keep on taking players the better it gets and that's all i have to say, carry on with your crying over a possible vaniety shop.

And nothing of value was lost that day.