February 2021 FINAL FANTASY XI Digest

[Catmato]

It's always more cost effective to have your players on one game rather than 2.

Why would players leaving XI start playing XIV?

[Alhanelem]

Actually, I'd argue it's more cost effective to get your players on both games rather than either one.

[Pixela]

Why would players leaving XI start playing XIV?

I said it's more cost effective, and that they want it to happen.

They later found out we wouldn't go, so it would be a loss if they tried it. Which is why the game is still being updated and is still alive.

[Monsuta_Man]

Disheartening to hear players talk about shutting down. New faces coming around these parts speaking their minds so it must have gotten bad at this moment. Closure would be nice. It looks like they have the foot off the pedal. I commend the team for doing these updates because they seem to be the company's whipping boys.

[Alhanelem]

I said it's more cost effective, and that they want it to happen.

They later found out we wouldn't go, so it would be a loss if they tried it. Which is why the game is still being updated and is still alive.

This really isn't true and you know it, (okay, MOSTLY not true). I say mostly because SE legitimately didn't think the game would keep as many players as it did for as long as it has. But from the beginning of XIV's development, the original plan was for the games to actually be connected- XIV wasn't actually meant to be a replacement.

[Tsukihika]

It really is awesome how the developers themselves are still creating new content and keeping the game going. Thanks to these fairly frequent updates and improvements, old returnee players in particular can experience completely new, and hopefully improved ffxi all over again. Perhaps even form new bonds of friendship and reconcile with their old ffxi buddies from years back. I for one have no plans to ever un-sub from the game, even if I were to use it as nothing more but glorified social chat room. Going down with the ship! Sincerely wish though, that the game team would communicate with us western players more, so that we can all equally work together to improve the game and make it the best it can be. Even if the developers themselves are busy, well, developing the game . Surely some other game team representative can communicate with us players actively and work as intermediary to pass our thoughts and concerns even indirectly to developers. The lack of communication from their end, even on these "official" forums, is extremely disheartening indeed. This would perhaps be important matter to address at some point, when it comes to the longevity and future of ffxi as our most beloved MMO game?

There was some talk on other forums sometime ago, how old ffxi player from many years back regretted losing contact with their old ffxi friends over time after leaving the game behind. And certainly, these bonds we have formed with other ffxi players over years, from all around world, no doubt remain extremely important aspect and can for some even be the only reason they remain subbed to the game. The dev team making ffxi more "solo friendly" lately (trust system) could actually be considered counterproductive, as it takes away from players truly needing each other, in order to tackle the challenge ahead (battle content). This game truly is at it best, when players have to rely on each other, form actual bonds and know each other (jobs and their levels/gears), as opposed to simply being forced to do something together FF14 style with total randoms you never meet a second time in your life. Despite occasionally playing FF14 myself on the side and always checking new expansion content out, that game quickly becomes utterly boring daily-task-solo-grind, where you might as well just be playing some single player game instead. Although player experiences naturally vary, and this is merely my personal one. The FFXI dev team should definitely move ahead with player cooperation in mind, rather than the recent trend of solo-centric, time gated and easy gameplay, similar to countless failed MMOs out there where people simply quit/unsub once their goals are reached, or they are unable do advance further due to some forced artificial limitation (time gating content). The whole idea behind an MMO is after all, to play together with and interact with other human players.

[Pixela]

This really isn't true and you know it, (okay, MOSTLY not true). I say mostly because SE legitimately didn't think the game would keep as many players as it did for as long as it has. But from the beginning of XIV's development, the original plan was for the games to actually be connected- XIV wasn't actually meant to be a replacement.

This is not true at all but lets not get into a long winded argument about it, lets just agree to disagree.

[Alhanelem]

This is not true at all but lets not get into a long winded argument about it, lets just agree to disagree.

It absolutely is true, very early on there was a plan for the games to be linked to gether, like you could go through a portal in the mog house, to go from one world to the other. It never made it past the concept stage, but it was part of the plan at one point. You can deny it all you like, but XIV was not intended to directly replace XI. If they really wanted to do that, they would have simply shut the game down, whether it was still making money or not, in order to pressure those players to come to XIV. Which they obviously never did.

Sorry, I will not buy into the anti XIV conspiracy theories. And that's what they are, conspiracy theories. There is no proof of any of the claims being made.

[Pixela]

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[Feanorsof]

Enjoying the new content however as with many others I have found the lag in Sheol Gaol makes it unplayable at the moment.