Quote Originally Posted by Camate View Post
Howdy! As you have already noticed, Producer Tanaka has made a post in response to questions on the forum as to why we don’t see more posts from the producer on the FFXI forums.

Thanks for the translation work, but I’d like to touch it up a bit^^ Otsukare Google-san.
Camate, the posts in this thread are what we want an answer to. Why is XI running with a skeleton crew of developers when it has 10x, if not more, subscribers than XIV? I don't speak for everyone, but I do speak for a majority when I say I will never play XIV again. I don't like it, it's not good, it can't be good. XI is what I like, and unless it's an XI port than I am not interested.

The above statement, in concurrence with this press release from a few days ago:
Quote Originally Posted by Yoichi Wada
The Final Fantasy name has been "greatly damaged," due to the troubled Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix admitted today at a Tokyo press conference.

Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada said that the entire Final Fantasy franchise has been affected by the shortfalls of the MMO title, according to an Andriasang report.

"The Final Fantasy brand has been greatly damaged," he said. "We'll continue with our reform work, which basically amounts to fully redoing the game, and hope to revive the FFXIV that should have been released."

Released last September on PC, the MMORPG saw launch problems, thanks to stability and performance issues.

The PlayStation 3 version of the game was later delayed, as the development team attempted to improve certain elements of the game "to meet customer expectations."

And as the publisher chose to delay charging players any subscription fees to play the game, Square Enix reported declines in fiscal year sales and profits.

Producer Naoki Yoshida then revealed that the company was laying out an extensive list of gameplay changes, all planned for the title through the summer.
We will continue playing this game as long as it is fun and new content comes out, but we want expansions, real ones. Updated graphics. The loss of support for certain platforms. We want to have a better discussion about "Why Pining Nocturne and Addle can't stack" than just the DEVs talking about it amongst themselves.

We don't want to keep paying for XIV to get developed with our subscription fees because it will never, ever be a success.