What's With the No Future Expansion or Addons?

[Seyomeyo]

I'd have no issues buying a full price expnsion at least twice (once for a friend who sometimes can't afford things right away)

[Elexia]

I don't advocate egalitarianism. I don't care if some zones/gear/content is better and less useless than others. Mucking out to freaking Dangruf Wadi because some whiney snot thinks its unfair that some zones are less used is just lame. I want something new to see and new places to do it in, that's the point. I don't know about you but I done played out that there FFXI game. Voidwatch could be fun and interesting, but so far it looks like the thrown bone among a bunch of remaking.

You know, browsing plenty of forms I see people complain about c/p and remaking...almost every MMORPG does this lol, the main culprit is enemies..so you get a ton of new zones...with the same basic enemy group with a different feature, e.g birds with spikes instead of the same birds with a vibrant plume.

All in all, it's how it is and quite honestly, most of XI is barren now since Abyssea, and I can guarantee there will be more "whiny snot" complaining if SE completely removed said unused zones (out of the way zones obviously) than forcing us to you know, warp to a city and take a 2 minute trip to a zone you haven't been to in years.

[Seriha]

If you can tell me the difference between fighting a crawler in Sarutabaruta, Tahrongi, Buburimu, Shakhrami, Crawler's Nest, and so on beyond level/stats and TP move variance with some sub-families, I'll stop being a "whiny snot" about where a fight takes place actually mattering. I'd rather not sit here and waste potentially limited development resources on yet more busts when (long-time) needed fixes could be made to current areas. Sadly, the FFXI scale tends to hinge on whether or not something is the best or not. If a new zone or set of them is not good for EXP, gear, or gil, people will not want much to do with it after the newness passes. This was true before Abyssea, and it will remain so after.

[Runespider]

No matter how you want to cut it the main reason for a big expansion or triple addon set is to add a big amount of excitment, we pay a monthly fee for the game to be constantly updated but expansions are something extra and big to get excited about. Thats why they try to release them around the same time as other big releases (ie. abyssea came out around the time of cataclysm).

FFXI is still a good MMO and honestly still in very good shape playernumber wise, I'm sure all the expansions/addons (asside from the first 3 crappy addons) sold well so it makes no sense not to at least tell the players they do plan to add more extra buyable content to keep the game fresh. Abyssea for instance was so awesome literally everyone had to buy it, thats at least 150-200k sales for the 3.

Either expand beyond the PS2 or start removing some zones if thats the problem, not like 3 different promivion zones is needed for instance.

[Flunklesnarkin]

All games have to come to an end eventually ^^

I do hope they can come up with some new ideas and storylines to keep ffxi interesting though...

It will be interesting to see if they can steer the game away from abyssea... I think it's still possible...

Don't get me wrong abyssea is fun.. it just doesn't have the appeal to keep people playing the game.

[Runespider]

All games have to come to an end eventually ^^

Although true this only applies to games that run out of steam and lose their playerbase. FFXI has well over 200k players, any game with that number of players won't be shutting down anytime soon if the company behind it has any sense at all. It's an amazing cash cow, idk if you follow playernumbers on other MMO's but 200k is a huge number of players (even moreso considering they have been loyal for so long) for a game that's already paid for its dev costs (especially one that has no korean/chinese etc release). Don't ever count WoW when figuring playernumbers that game is a total freak and will probably never ever happen again, not even Blizzard know how they managed to get so many "normal" people to play it.

Age of conan tries to brag about having 100k players and nobody believes it, Star wars old republic is hoping for at around 500k players at the start to pay dev costs, once they do that you can bet they will be happy with a 200k playernumbers and that is a brand new MMO. 200k players all paying the full monthly fee and willing to pay out for new expansions is not something to scoff at.

I question Square's business sense on many things but allowing FFXI to fade due to no further expansions with such big playernumbers not only shows how stupid they could be but also would paint anything else they ever release in a horrible light, it would show no matter how popular their games got they would have no real value in them.

[Atomic_Skull]

Oh and for Square to say it would be to hard to code the game for ps3, they need to call Ubisoft, Capcom, hell even there crew at Crystal Dynamics on how to code the game, Its not that they can't they just wont.

Sony has a strict policy that PS2 games ported to the PS3 must have upgraded graphics. This is probably the real reason SE didn't want to port FFXI to the PS3. But they didn't want to say "we don't want to upgrade FFXI's graphics for the PS3" so instead they said "it would be too hard"

[Atomic_Skull]

All games have to come to an end eventually ^^

Tell that to CCP. EVE Online has increased it's subscribers over the years where most MMOs gradually loose subscribers.

Of course CCP is also committed to upgrading their game's technology periodically to keep it from stagnating.

[Flunklesnarkin]

My mistake.. ffxi will last forever @.@

although i do hope they decide to upgrade the graphics at some point in the next 20 or so years >_>

[Seha]

Just to tease everyone here, there's a thing called "The last stand" planned for the lv 99 cap which might very well be a new expansion! Just sayin'