New Years message

[Gwydion]

TVR might not getting an actual zone. While it does uses existing zones, imo TVR story kinda grand by itself, & personally kinda satisfied on how it delivers. Just recently finished it & boy... it is deep!

Being TVR just finished very recently, think it would be too soon to ask for more content, but that's just me. There's still those prime weapon grinds if you like, since it will requires a total amount of 8.5 million gallies just for a weapon, that is a very long term grind to do, ofc if one does care about it.

I agree with you. I enjoyed TVR very much. However, I am very disappointed the current end-game strategy in Odyssey and Sortie. I really wish these events encouraged players team up (replay value or help others).

[Standstill]

How do people feel about 2024 for FFXI?

Possible to create a gui based UI similiar to FFXIV for the game? How much of an investment would that entail?

[Alhanelem]

Possible to create a gui based UI similiar to FFXIV for the game? How much of an investment would that entail?

One was already being developed during the Wings of the Goddess era. But it was cancelled.

If they wanted to do it, they wouldn't have to start from scratch.

[Vold]

I think SE has always fallen back on the excuse that XIV was their upgrade for XI. I just think it's sad that some guy is or was providing graphical upgrades for us in the most basic sense - HD textures for zones. I haven't looked into it for awhile but maybe characters or mobs by now? In any case, if they are too cheap to throw a guy or three at such things then it's hopeless to ever think about such upgrades by the team. It's a shame because I imagine many people from the old days would return as older people and go, damn, I like this. I think I'll hang around modern day XI. But, without that official graphical upgrade by whatever means necessary, those people have a hard time reconsidering their decision to leave. And maybe they are right. XI still feels like XI at the end of the day. No doubt about it. But I would wager people would very much enjoy XI in modern day, but I also have seen old school people come back and just leave again upon getting that mythic they've always wanted, or they did so much grinding that they went back on break. Maybe I'm a lost cause. I have many games dating back to the PS2 that I've never got around to playing because of this game. I'm clearly biased.

I'm just annoyed that XI has had to rely on other players developing stuff for this game while SE opts to make XIV and put a skeleton crew here. If not for certain apps, if not for the efforts of so many 3rd party players to make this game fun, I doubt it would still be running today if people were forced to play the basic XI experience. Those apps have given us so many reasons to keep our brains busy maxing ourselves. I just wish the two would officially come together to make the entire experience as amazing as possible. But SE is too proud for that and maybe youknowwhat app's team are too proud to sell out. IDK. Whatever. Maybe it'd be a pointless endeavor anyways bc ps2 code. Just like it's pointless for me to censor the name of a 3rd party app because a team member might spend about 3 minutes a year on these forums and they've never tried laying the law down on them anyways because they know what the project means for maintaining a playerbase here...

[RichLester]

How do I feel about FFXI in 2024? Not good. Usual daily chores but cut right down to just an hour or so & that's if I want to. I can imagine a lot of people dwindling down their time now to do other things & pop on during monthly updates to check things out and do them. That's about it. Doesn't bode well.

[Haldarn]

I think SE has always fallen back on the excuse that XIV was their upgrade for XI.

Really thinking about it, I wouldn't mind if this was even viable. I'm all but up-to-date on XIV, but it's so dull to play, I can't bring myself to grind out more fkin tomestones. All of the content in that game falls into two categories: a) boring repeats or b) must spend four weeks learning a dance.

So I'm sat here playing XI because for some reason challenging myself (slowly) to get more and more upgrades to my RDM so I can solo more and more content is actually fun. And the variety of content is massively in excess of XIV. It's so frustrating that S-E don't see that with a UI and graphics (and yeah probably networking) update, XI would be a feasible investment.

I'm just hoping that as a promo for the XI raid in the next expansion, sometime soon they combine the subscription fees.

[Alhanelem]

I can't bring myself to grind out more fkin tomestones.

Most of the content I do doesn't require gear at all lol and I cap out on currencies without thinking about it (pvp, deep dungeon). I do comp CC and participate in player run tournaments and stuff.

[Beastorizer]

They can't even manage two MMOs well, let alone adding in a third to the list.

I sure wouldn't invest my time in a third, and the second would lose its appeal as it would end up just like the first fairly quickly.

This is actually a great point.......

I am also of the mind-set 17 will be an MMO based upon my Millenium Event theory.
IX, X, XI
XII, XIII, XIV
XV, XVI, XVII?????

However, if they can't even manage to squeeze out another DLC or Expansion of some sorts for the remaining XI distant lands, no way they can support 3 MMO. Unless, it is neglect (Not caring,) as opposed to being unable. SE has become an MMO company of sorts imo, due to their MMO keeping the lights on. Don't think they quite recovered from that XIV failure. That may scare them a little bit in terms of an MMO. They cannot afford another XIV 1.0.

It says a lot about XI, that SE feels it can still be profitable without updating it lol. if it weren't, XI would be shutdown. Not sure it is making enough for them to "Warrant" new content.

Shame......XI still has a lot of untapped potential. New races Male Mithra or Zilart? A DLC to explore what the Zilart Nation was like, Going back in time?. New job? What were the other nations like back in time? What about the other distant lands?

Don't sub like I used to. Simply can't justify supporting a game they really don't support their damn selves haha........

[Alhanelem]

You remind me of the whole notion that odd numbered windows versions are good and even ones are bad. Two games is not really enough of a sample size to make a prediction like that (good good bad good good bad, SP SP MMO SP SP MMO) from. I honestly doubt this. I think it's pretty plain, not just to us but to them, that making a new MMO in the FF series, even though it would go on to be very successful, was at least partly a mistake- particularly the attempts to create connections (i.e. similar races) to try to move people.

FFXIV was born from the technical limitations that plagued FFXI, particularly how it was essentially hardcoded to operate in a dial-up environment. It started because there were things they wanted to do that they simply couldn't do in XI due to its design. FFXIV, unlike XI, has had its internals upgraded over the years and is much less bound by the sorts of technical limitations that XI had- new expansions, especially the upcoming one, regularly increase the system requirements. FFXIV was born somewhat out of a necessity for a better backbone to build a game on, while FFXIV doesn't really have that kind of problem. Because of this, I don't really see it likely that a new MMO is currently in development, as you can be sure that FFXVII is probably already in development.

[Talaya]

i honestly just wish the attempts at remaking this game would have actually happened, it would be amazing to not have the limitations in place for XI.
XI and XIV are not the same, at all, in any way and the players who prefer one over the other are seeking different things. I adore XI, as does my partner, we buy the merch, hell we import from Japan via an agent to get stuff, i wish they knew how much of the west actually adore this game and are more than willing to help if we can.
ive said a number of times that if they did a crowdfund to get funds to remake XI or add expansions, people would chip in, tons would chip in, i wonder if they even know that.

that aside, i do wish more would come to XI, we have so many things that they could expand on, that they could just add using existing stuff, like adding a homeland for the Mithra race with a small story line that explores the cultures and such of the Mithran homeland, same could be done for all the beastmen, short stories that let players know about thier lives and how they do things.
you could add a story to monstrosity, make players use old content, it could just give augments to existing items, like the amuscade weapons.

players need more reasons to explore the world again at end game, it would be nice if just simple things were added to give them a reason to do so, regularly.

my only wish into 2024 and beyond is, just dont let XI die.