My continued support of FFXI, and SE as a company.

[Alhanelem]

lol deliberate aggression but you are the one reporting people.

Is that really your defense?

You aren't following the code of conduct, therefore I am not taking any inappropriate action in reporting violations of said code. This line of discussion should have ceased with my admission of error. The fact that you continue to attack me for it makes you the aggressor.

[Beastorizer]

(Which account am I on? Doesn't matter...)



Welcome to the Yoshi P Final Fantasy Era.



Imo (Just my opinion folks....), the failure of XIV ultimately damaged not only their revenue/earnings, but approach to Final Fantasy games from that point forward (It was not the Avengers which initially damaged SE.....). They began to abandon all conventional wisdom, for trendy mechanics. I challenge anyone to find a worst trio of successive FF releases this bad..........



XIV: Which initially failed

XV: Maybe the most hated FF

XVI: Like a visual novel.....and SE lost a ton of $$$$$$ shortly after its' release......(Add on some controversial language from non-other than Yoshi)



As for XI, made a reddit thread about "Falling out of love with XI" (Dramatic...). Forced myself to sub up to get some Relics and Mythics done......and more Monstrosity due to the campaign. Well, there lies the problem. I am not interested in any of the new content lol.



There was a 50 page Monstrosity thread (Started by them btw....), but was ignored...... (By them btw...)



https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/t...osity-Feedback



I find any excuse to talk about Mon....cool, got it.... but you can't deny how they swept a highly demanded promising new feature under the rug. There were things they could do to integrate Mon into the game.

Example, allow players to sync up and create exp parties with other players or mons. Parties earn boosted exp, merits, JP, etc. To incentive it, add ROE objectives from specific areas once per week (There is enough areas to last a week). Players can also earn an amazing amount of Gallantry and Hallmarks from these objectives too.

So, Indvidual's can create a party going from the Dunes to the Moon finishing objectives, moving on to the other areas. The JPs earned also makes exp merc useless, since you earn a $hit ton upon completing objectives. The ROE objectives are categorized by series, which makes it easier to find ppl. They do not take too long to complete either.

Noobs can join, vets, etc.......Incentivize it, so ppl would do it. Folks could simply group up and go through their old leveling grounds as a player character or Mon while earning valuable items.



To piggyback off of the OP's topic, feel like SE stopped supporting one of their most profitable titles. Folks bash players who play XI....by other means......My logic is, SE does not support XI, so why should they? SE thinks XI is their gift to the players because they simply keep a profitable service up and running while taking people's money lol?

[Alhanelem]

The players stopped supporting it and then SE did in turn, not the other way around. The playerbase declined while the game was still getting full updates. They released a new expansion, it didn't go that well, planned content was cut.... Ultimately the game's performance declined and thus so did their investment- A self fufilling prophecy.

[Standstill]

(Which account am I on? Doesn't matter...)



Welcome to the Yoshi P Final Fantasy Era.



Imo (Just my opinion folks....), the failure of XIV ultimately damaged not only their revenue/earnings, but approach to Final Fantasy games from that point forward (It was not the Avengers which initially damaged SE.....). They began to abandon all conventional wisdom, for trendy mechanics. I challenge anyone to find a worst trio of successive FF releases this bad..........



XIV: Which initially failed

XV: Maybe the most hated FF

XVI: Like a visual novel.....and SE lost a ton of $$$$$$ shortly after its' release......(Add on some controversial language from non-other than Yoshi)



As for XI, made a reddit thread about "Falling out of love with XI" (Dramatic...). Forced myself to sub up to get some Relics and Mythics done......and more Monstrosity due to the campaign. Well, there lies the problem. I am not interested in any of the new content lol.



There was a 50 page Monstrosity thread (Started by them btw....), but was ignored...... (By them btw...)



https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/t...osity-Feedback



I find any excuse to talk about Mon....cool, got it.... but you can't deny how they swept a highly demanded promising new feature under the rug. There were things they could do to integrate Mon into the game.

Example, allow players to sync up and create exp parties with other players or mons. Parties earn boosted exp, merits, JP, etc. To incentive it, add ROE objectives from specific areas once per week (There is enough areas to last a week). Players can also earn an amazing amount of Gallantry and Hallmarks from these objectives too.

So, Indvidual's can create a party going from the Dunes to the Moon finishing objectives, moving on to the other areas. The JPs earned also makes exp merc useless, since you earn a $hit ton upon completing objectives. The ROE objectives are categorized by series, which makes it easier to find ppl. They do not take too long to complete either.

Noobs can join, vets, etc.......Incentivize it, so ppl would do it. Folks could simply group up and go through their old leveling grounds as a player character or Mon while earning valuable items.



To piggyback off of the OP's topic, feel like SE stopped supporting one of their most profitable titles. Folks bash players who play XI....by other means......My logic is, SE does not support XI, so why should they? SE thinks XI is their gift to the players because they simply keep a profitable service up and running while taking people's money lol?

FFXIV 1.0 indeed did fail, but it failed from a development standpoint. FFXIV today brings the majority of revenue to SE and is immensely more popular than XI ever was.

From a development standpoint, the developers are limited to an SDK created in 1999. They stopped supporting XI mainly because of these limitations, a dwindling player base, and what they could implement into XIV that wasn't possible in XI. You should read about the resource restraints they had to deal with just making it possible to teleport around East and West Adoulin. It's eye-opening, something that is taken for granted by the player base in XIV.

What many people have to realize is QoL features is what drew people away.

[Immortal]

That is just your opinion, what really drew people away was the fact SE cannibalized its own playerbase by releasing another MMO that was final fantasy related. Don't have to say anymore than that, as its quite obvious. If it was simply QoL features, then nobody would go to any of the private servers because almost all of them have them.

They continued to shower that game with support while barely throwing scraps at the original MMO. Continued like that until the playerbase dwindled enough for them to say ok, time to put it on ice. The limitations were just an excuse over all.

[Alhanelem]

stuff

Good, level-headed post. Thank you for that.

[Ahalee]

Srsly, put that guy in ignore list like I do. I had like enough of having the recent "Ahalee" incident during my free login on Bahamut which stays like the ENTIRE free login time, & seeing ppl kept feeding the troll to make it even worse, & y'all just did similarly. -_-

What "Ahalee" incident are you even referring to? I never caused any drama and I don't appreciate being called a troll. Maybe you should actually have been there for it instead of spreading rumors. same to chief_bigman who posted in response to that too.

[Alhanelem]

What "Ahalee" incident are you even referring to? I never caused any drama and I don't appreciate being called a troll. Maybe you should actually have been there for it instead of spreading rumors. same to chief_bigman who posted in response to that too.

You know, I actually thought they were referring to me lol...

[Ahalee]

No those guys were referring to the series of much referred to /yell wars I had with a bunch of people over a span of days or maybe weeks and those people were attacking me for doing a PSA regarding being scammed by Euvedant/Lecroucond on the Bahamut server.

[Ahalee]

I didn't. But either way there's other reasons accounts can get banned, not just harassment. Maybe you should understand how reddit works rather than posting ignorant stuff like that. Please explain why you feel the need to act immature, lie through your teeth, defame others and instigate drama. And why can't you admit that maybe you were wrong and have a "vendetta" against me and therefore feel the need to come on the forums and harass me. Oh btw I reported you for your two posts also. Thank you for any response.