What's With the No Future Expansion or Addons?

[RaenRyong]

anyone can just go in and get the best gear possible for their jobs in less than a weeks worth of work.

Lots of people say this; who does this?

[Arcon]

Lots of people say this; who does this?

The fact that it's even possible is a bit disappointing to me. I managed to get three +2 pieces in one day before (for the entire party, five people or so). And it didn't take us 24 hours, but more like six hours, and that was only due to competition. Thanks to red/blue/grellow weaknesses, which on the one hand I find a nice minigame, on the other hand it can be bothersome at times, drops are so easy to come by. Combined with very short respawn times and easy kills, you can almost guarantee a finished +2 item every day. Along with the occasional NM for accessories, you could easily get the best gear (or at least in the ballpark) in less than a week, and I'm pretty sure many people have done that too. I know people who finished entire level 90 Empyrean weapons in just over a week. And I have to admit, the fact that this is even possible bothers me quite a bit as well.

And since I mentioned it, competition is so hard in some places it's ridiculous. One of the most used arguments in favor of Abyssea was that you didn't have to compete with three other linkshells for a NM to get good gear. That's very wrong, some NMs are more crowded than I ever remember Dragon's Aery to be. Tunga makes old Arthro feel lonely in comparison. The only thing that makes it better is the short respawn time, which doesn't always help, since you still have to wait 15~20 minutes, which is a problem since time inside Abyssea is limited. Also, no matter what the respawn time is, if you're in a group of three and compete with three full linkshells, you'll just be outclaimed time after time.

[Ezekieal]

wow having to read all 14 pages has made my eyes bleed i swear lol

a new actual expansion would be awesome, as somoeone said earlier there has been areas of the world eluded to but not given zones, such as the far-east and west(this is personally where i would love to see an expansion placed, native american mobs go!).

having said that i doubt that we will get one. he population is slowly declining and took a pretty large tumble during the 2 week shutdown of the earthquake/tsunami, i personally know of 8 people who left cos of that, 4 of which was for WoW.

so with the income from ffxi growing smaller, i think the dev team is trying to give us stuff as efficiently as they can and unfortunately that means reskining and things that dont require millions of dev hrs to bring to fruition. so while i am sure we will see new mini add-ons in the future in the vain of ACP, ASA etc i really doubt a full exansion will see the light of day.

[Runespider]

having said that i doubt that we will get one. he population is slowly declining and took a pretty large tumble during the 2 week shutdown of the earthquake/tsunami, i personally know of 8 people who left cos of that, 4 of which was for WoW.

so with the income from ffxi growing smaller, i think the dev team is trying to give us stuff as efficiently as they can and unfortunately that means reskining and things that dont require millions of dev hrs to bring to fruition. so while i am sure we will see new mini add-ons in the future in the vain of ACP, ASA etc i really doubt a full exansion will see the light of day.

Not making any addons at the very least will bring it a lot sooner, out of sheer boredom of nothing to do.

[Harukusan]

Lots of people say this; who does this?

I do. Next question.

wow having to read all 14 pages has made my eyes bleed i swear lol

No one said you had to! But I bet it's been a fun ride

millions of dev hrs

We're over-exaggerating this a bit aren't we? Yes much of the actual expansions we originally received took much longer to develop than the small bogus add-ons they've been throwing at us lately, but what most of us are trying to say is that we have no problem waiting a little bit longer just for a real, full expansion. If they would just say "yes, we have intentions to release a new expansion in the future" the hype alone would keep peoples' attention for sure. I'm not impressed by what the dev team has in store for us now, and until it's actually released, you probably shouldn't be either.

[vileragnorok]

I agree lets face it ff14 is a bomb until fixed SE should stick with there bread and butter. New expantions,a new challenge,job ajustments is so needed,not this mnk whm can overrun crap.SE needs to really look into this before more players quit.People havent played this game for 10 years cause it was bad.ff14 should be put on the back burner till its really the new mmo rpg.Thats not gonna happen for a long time

[Defiledsickness]

If they drop PS2, upgrade the graphics, and announce game support (expansions) more people will join. A lot of people would join 'except'. And a ton of players who quit would come back for real changes. Everyone wanted to play FF14 until it sucked, but no one wanted to leave 11.

If they gave reason for NEW people to join the game, the game would be far more lively then it is now with PS2 players who never level any new job (cuz they're all at 75+ already!). No ps2 player would continue for a single new zone, but they'd probably buy a 360 (or add ps3 support!) if there was actual good content coming out.

I know people who still play with 1 or no Abyssea zones so anything is possible :P

[DoomLord]

I haven't read every post but I see alot of people seeing the upside and down side as an old FFXI player back when game just came to pc, I have seen lot's of changes some good tome OMG what was you thinking of..but to be honest it's not all about the game the commuity in ffxi makes me stay, i work i go out and I enjoy life away from the game but it's great to pick up the keyboard and chat and wonder around place's you never really going to see.
As for a new expansion there needs to be a Big one a real big one one that opens up the game once again to the old players none of this I'm lvl 30 now i'm lvl 90 i would like them fix this by at least making them do a fixed number of quest's to enter abyssea like we all did to enter Sea and sky areas.
completely new lands would make people leave abyssea and go inseach of them bosses again new end game maybe if they want people to start moving over to 14 (not that i will did hated wont return) maybe introduce areas that mimic 14 to make the change less of a shock.
a new undiscovered race would turn the game on it's head not only new jobs a race you got to unlock that would make them a small packet with the extra ID's brought just think of 3-4 new races added to the game that have race only jobs.
wont happen but that wouldn't just make people buy an expansion it would make them truely lvl once more.

[Akujima]

God this thread is so good.

I enjoyed The Rise of Zilart, New Area's and Storyline

I enjoyed Chains of Promathia, New Area's and Storyline

I enjoyed Treasures of Aht Urgan, New Area's and Storyline

I enjoyed Wings of the Goddess, New Area's and Storyline

Chances are...

I will enjoy (along with many others) [INSERT NEW EXPANSION HERE], New Area's and Storyline.


35.1 pages to go.

[Skyrocket]

I died a little inside.

Is it possible we might see something Next year, Or some time down the line? Or is the idea completely out of the question and the Development team is never going to release another new-zone-giving Expansion?

Or is it too soon to tell? You can tell us We won't leave you.

Also the Roadmap is very exciting to a lot of us, We enjoy what is the works. I Hope you guys didn't get "We hate everything about the roadmap and want more zones QQ" from this thread D:. We're all excited for whats ahead, We just wanna look into the future of FFXI, and see if its going to ever Expand to new zones, Or to just expect all the current and future content to take place in already existing areas.

I think i died a little inside too, I was hoping for new expanisons and new zones but its sounds like SE wasn't thinking about expainsions.