New expansion?!?

[Stompa]

On the whole "FFXI is dead / Aby killed it / Adoulin killed it" etc. stuff which is always good for a laugh, I would relate some quotes;

Qufim Island 2005; Party member; "This game is dead. It was fun a year ago, but it sucks now. This game won't be around in a year, you mark my words."

Grauberg(S) 2009; Another party member ; "This game is dead. It used to be fun but it sucks now. Everyone knows this game will be shut down soon."

I laughed when she said that, because it was almost the exact same words another person said four years earlier.

What I remembered on both occasions was that I was having fun playing the game, I was having as much fun in Vanadiel in 2004 as I was in 2009. And today I am still having as much fun in Vanadiel as I had eleven years ago.

I don't think Aby or SoA killed the game, I don't think the game is dead. I think it is an old game, and old games lose the mainstream playerbase who traditionally will go for the newest eyecandy titles. Old games retain their devoted fanbase, like a cult. The same is true of some diehard fans playing 1980s games in 2015 lol.

I actually liked Aby a lot, the battlefields were fun and I liked proccing mobs to build popsets etc. The Empy weaps and armors are cool, NMs in Aby were cool. I just wish they had put a lvl75 lock on the Aby doors to stop everyone zombie leech bimbo airhead mode from 30 to 99.

SoA is okay too, I do love the city of Adoulin and I really enjoyed the SoA mission storyline. I like some of the new monster types they created in SoA too, especially the big floppy white gorilla mob lol.

I'm just reading the version update notes and the Vanadiel Digest stuff, and really you can see the enthusiasm being put into these announcements, they are really trying to give people fun stuff on a regular basis, and they are really putting effort into the game. My only actual problem with FFXI was paying for it lol, but now they have fixed the payment options, I totally don't see any problems. FFXI is a fun game, if you know how to enjoy yourself and don't expect miracles. And it isn't dead either.