FFXI REMASTERED! Do eeeet!

[Alhanelem]

The problem is you idolize XIV in a way even I don't with XI.

The problem with your entire post is this statement isn't true at all. I don't "idolize" FFXIV, in fact I would really not use that word to describe anything. I've told people multiple times about the extent of what I do in that game, which isn't really a whole lot- just PvP and deep dungeon. Two things most people don't care about lol.

I just don't hate it, deride it, and resent it for merely existing the way you do. Times change, and people's interests change. Not hating and resenting != idolizing.

Square struggled for years to make us play XIV and failed,

They stopped trying to convert you after 1.0.

You know how I know XIV is nowhere near as big as they pretend it is? they never give expansion sales numbers, because this would be a guaranteed number of active players and they can't lose face by exposing them.

Expansion sales numbers doesn't accuirately indicate active players. You can deny FFXIV's success all you like but that won't make it go away. Funny how they're expanding all of the datacenters and adding more Worlds because they didn't have enough capacity after Endwalker's release. Sure sounds like a sales failure to me! [/sarcasm]

This isn't a Square Enix policy either. MMOs generally don't release sales numbers or other data beyond a vague "X number of players" in promotional advertising. WoW doesn't give these numbers and neither does any other MMO I've ever played.

In some ways I am hoping they never re-master XI. If they would do a straight-up graphics and GUI update, I would be all for that, but there is no way that would happen. They would do a "George Lucas" and 'improve things' which never ends well. I include VII remaster in this.

It ends just fine many times. The problem is you can never please everyone, there's always an "old salty" who thinks all change is bad and nothing can be legitimately improved. While FFXI is classic, the idea that it can't be improved is nonsense.

[Zero-Hour]

It ends just fine many times.

Possibly, not seen one yet though.

The problem is you can never please everyone, there's always an "old salty" who thinks all change is bad and nothing can be legitimately improved. While FFXI is classic, the idea that it can't be improved is nonsense.

Yes, indeed FFXI could be improved, but the history of re-mastered and tinkered with says otherwise.

The problem would probably manifest itself in the guise of some higher-up business-type in SE who think they know what the target audience want and go all out pushing that agenda, all the time while having no actual clue what the players really want. For instance, totally changing the battle system for "something more up to date". Doing so would completely change the game.

The best re-masters are those where they take the original game as-is and just 1080p the graphics, while leaving the story, game play, battle system exactly as it was.

Lets face it, they are not going to be selling a remastered FFXI to anyone other than the original player base, a modern audience would quit if they were not in endgame within a week of starting.