Is there secrecy over the 20th anniversary?

[Catmato]

I think people have a wild idea what a remaster is, did you play the dark souls remaster?

I'd be thrilled if there was a FFXI remaster on par with DSR. Locked 60fps, improved lighting and effects, better support for modern hardware. Sign me up.

[Haldarn]

Don't know about y'all, but I'm pumped for the 25th Anniversary.

[Divinas]

Well, obviously yes. They're planning to do something, everoyne knows that much.

Possible but to be honest, I would not really have high expectations. Vorace is taking extremely slow to develop, and it's known the game has very small tiny team. Developing monthly ambuscade probably takes half the resource as it is. My honest two cents.

[Immortal]

What a complete letdown this anniversary segment was. I am so upset and SE should be ashamed of themselves for treating this amazing game in the way they have these years. You have so many loyal fans and people rooting for this game and you give it less than the bare minimum while increasing pricing. I am just so disgusted I don't even know what else to say.

[Fawkes]

At the end of the show we mentioned that starting next fiscal year, we're going to focus our development and operations on a long-term goal of the twentieth anniversary. As such, there may be some time where the version updates may feel a bit lighter, but we're hoping to be able to deliver something that can surprise everyone later on.

I wonder what this was about...

[JKap_Goat]

What a complete letdown this anniversary segment was. I am so upset and SE should be ashamed of themselves for treating this amazing game in the way they have these years. You have so many loyal fans and people rooting for this game and you give it less than the bare minimum while increasing pricing. I am just so disgusted I don't even know what else to say.

I agree I was very disappointed. FFXI is an amazing game and I've been playing it for three years, I was hoping for a remake, Updated UI, POL remove, texture update, party finder like FFXIV to make it easier for people to group up and do content with. Anything and nothing, they hyped up the 20th anniversary and got nothing.

like FFXIV is getting a graphical update and FFXI isn't? FFXI doesn't deserve love? I'm super like disappointed I let my hopes get the best of me

Even a Fantasia to change race or the ability to change hairstyle would have been more exciting

[Alhanelem]

Just repeating since he posted it twice.

Letdown over events? Nothing's even happened yet.

What do you want, to have them announce a bunch of expansions and new jobs or something?
Seriously, you expected way too much if you were looking for some big announcement or confetti to be raining down from the sky across vana'diel or something. Come on.

As far as the "surprise" from before, I'm pretty sure that was The Voracious Resurgence.

Nothing at all is happening until this version update tomorrow (which has new title music, apparently, and they don't just do that for nothing) and on the 16th which is the actual anniversary date, which has, at the absolute minimum, an update to WE ARE VANADIEL in store.

Back then I said to hold back expectations, it seems some people failed to do that lol

[Tarmarkvar]

20 is a big round number so I can't blame people for having high expectations. Disappointment was inevitable.

[Dragoy]

Yeah... is there an announcement or something I'm missing but others are seeing? ^^;

I've only seen the recurring Adventurer Appreciation and A.M.A.N. Trove ones, which are things of old, and I'm sure those are not the events special to the 20th in any way (don't think I've seen the A.M.A.N. Trove Gazillionaire Campaign before (part of Adventurer Appreciation Campaign), so that might be it (not really), but it might have been there before).

In any case, like I mentioned here before, I still imagine what they were talking about were the things we've been getting during the few last years, but almost surely there will be special events and such to be had as well (and I don't mean the ones announced to this date unless I really did miss something).

(Edit: Okay, maybe they didn't have time for more special events after all... though I guess they could be announced on the day, still.)

[BST]

I'd like to talk about the Insane lengths required to have this game Operational on Monitors with 144hz to 500hz refresh rates.

Honestly, this game needs to have 60FPS, which it already has with a 3rdparty plugin, but not Official.
This is crazy. Has anyone tried to play this game with such Monitors?

Jitter city, 29FPS game (locked by SE) on 360hz refresh rate Monitor, do it and make your eyes Bleed until your brain explodes.

SE need to address this!