¿Goodbye, Vanadiel? Please, tell me not!!

[Dragoy]

So much left in the world ;; Maybe I should try and find a new social shell while it lasts ;; but my play doesn't fit in so many places I just get left behind :/

I believe you most certainly should!

I don't know what the social shells over there are, but ours doesn't leave anyone behind! I do hope you can find at least one such shell over there, too.

I mean if that ends up not being the case and XI dies by 2017-ish then that's that, but it would be really funny if XI was "Reborn" (pun severely intended) instead.

Heh, so much what I've been thinking of. How long 'til the next “Adōulin” will be announced... hrhr.

I suggest that all non minors/non AA people on the servers get drunk the last saturday of every comming month and redo old content for giggles, that would be a fitting goodbye.

You buying? -.^

That's quite the offer for quite a few months to come!

(For some reason I first 'read' every week, but that's still a bunch!)

[Shadowstrife]

I'm seeing lots of people upset about Square Enix choice to stop ffxi on Xbox 360 across all different forum sites and I am one of those people too as I said in my last post.in previous updates that they have done with 11 they have said things like "we listened to what you had to say and want in forums and other feedback sites and made it happen",so Square Enix please listen now and look at what forums are sayng here and other forum sites,the decision has made people very sad and it's not to late to reconsider and do the right thing and keep FFXI going on Xbox 360 and other formats too,we don't want to lose 11 or our friends we made over the years.people that agree with me let ur feelings be know if you want to keep ffxi running,post you're thoughts on here and any other sites you are on,there's a big group of us and we need to stand together on this,nobody wants to lose 9 years of of hard work,friends and memories.

[illusionist]

Raydeus,

That seems to be the general gist of things.

Same here; I do have plenty I want to still get done, so it's great I'll at least have the time chance for that, from the looks and sounds of it!


Been here for 10 years, and still so much to do (even old things).

Me so lazy.

Me so lazy too.been here 13 years,and mostly used my time for chatting.
I played FF14 too,but There's little chance to communicate,It's so different.
And for me,JP who like to talk with and play with English speaking players, FF14 offers no chance.

Maybe chatting software will be enough?No,I want to chat while we are in adventure which is impossible in Real life.

I'm soooo depressed.

[Mavelle]

Oh wow, everyone already talking as if the game closes next month. They haven’t announced the sunset yet, true that we don’t know how long the windows version will be online and if they are going to support Windows 10. But it’s still online. Just enjoy its last years.

Just so you know where I came from and why I type this kind of stuff. This is my last MMO of the big three that I played from the start of my MMO life. The first one is Star Wars Galaxies, you all know what happened to that. And the second one was City of Heroes, now THAT had a stupid closing of the game. It was all of a sudden, with only 2 month notice that it’s going to be closed.

So I’m really glad that they announced it this way, so that we at least KNOW that we still have some time left. But that’s it’s just on its last leg.

[PlumbGame]

They never announced FFXI shutting down, just not receiving major updates. I guarantee many of you at the rates you play still have several years till you "complete" the game. This isn't even including what is to come in the 3 major patches or what might possibly exist in the continued minor patches.

[Stompa]

They never announced FFXI shutting down, just not receiving major updates. I guarantee many of you at the rates you play still have several years till you "complete" the game. This isn't even including what is to come in the 3 major patches or what might possibly exist in the continued minor patches.

I agree, there wouldn't be much point adding AF3 reforged, Vagary, and whole new Expansion with new areas and missions and rewards, if the game was then going to shut down six months or a year later. Given that it can take casual players a year to clear mission lines.

And the thing is, everyone I speak to in FFxi says they will keep paying subs anyway, even if FFxi becomes "Han Solo'd" frozen mode, on the shelf. My friends will keep playing it and paying for it, so long as it is online and not bug-ridden. If that is a demographic, then SE have every reason to just keep the game floating in limbo indefinitely, like a virtual museum lol. It is called Nostalgia Gaming, some fans will just play their favourite classic games until the keyboard is just a pile of dust.

[Belmonts]

This was a rehearsal of Matsui and the SquareEnix CEO to let us know they want us to gtfo in the next 2-3 years. They didn't do it on the real press conference, tho. :3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-p15n7ie4Q

[Shay]

Yeah umm so I may be wrong but, just because they're no longer supporting it, does not mean that you cant access the game anymore?

my understanding is that there simply will be no more bug fixes or anything for ps2 or 360 nor any type of minor content update that comes out...

but I maybe wrong

[bungiefanNA]

Dropping support means they will not allow the consoles to connect to the servers anymore. If they continue with monthly bug fix patches, they won't develop them for the consoles, which means the next patch for PC will cause a version mismatch, which will prevent the console from logging in.

[Alhanelem]

Yeah umm so I may be wrong but, just because they're no longer supporting it, does not mean that you cant access the game anymore?

my understanding is that there simply will be no more bug fixes or anything for ps2 or 360 nor any type of minor content update that comes out...

but I maybe wrong

You're wrong. *service* is *ending*. meaning, you won't be able to log in with console versions. it's not just "you wont get content updates", especially considering after the date of the shutdown, there won't be content updates for ANY version.