FFXI Outline and Future

[Arcon]

SE hasn't raised their rates since the game was released. Name another company that hasn't raised prices in 10 years.

You can spin that one any way you want it. I'm paying over 30% more now than when I started, while I'm technically, in one way, still paying the same price.

[Behemothx]

They game is nearly 10 years old... it needs to come to an end... adding content on top of the enormous amount of content that already exists is a bad idea.

lol, What??

Since when is lots of contents bad?

[Airget]

It would be nice to get some update on the future of XI, when you consider how a game like Everquest is still around it's a tad troublesome how when SE claims that Final Fantasy is an important franchise to them they in a sense neglect XI in favor of XI with a V. I do hope in the next few days they might say something but seeing how they are putting so many resources into XIV it does appear they are trying to kill their own MMO. Before they said they wanted to make another mmo in which you would still be able to play both and have unique experiences, but with all the changes coming into XIV it looks like they are trying to defeat their own product.

I still wish they'd at least tell us why they had that survey it's kinda annoying that they ask us the survey yet don't even release the numbers or make an announcement over it. Something as simple as that would be nice even if it came down to why they can't cut ps2 support. Content wise the game has just been one dimensional challenge after another, there hasnt' really been any "new" places to explore just reskinned mobs and 1 or 2 new NMs to fight in an instance that you have 30 minutes to complete. To me the voidwatch concept isn't to compelling with how NM oriented it is with a true lack of adventuring, it's just hey we can warp you to think location and you can fight the NM right away. I hope in the next VU we could see some more intriguing content, with the last LB I imagine the Ki recieved may prove to make it an interesting quest to reach 99. But ya just seeing how much effort is being put into XIV should make it discouraging to those play XI since you don't see a game that has had a loyal fanbase get much respect when they still pay and play in hopes that there may be a true expansion we can look forward to.

[Atomic_Skull]

They game is nearly 10 years old... it needs to come to an end... adding content on top of the enormous amount of content that already exists is a bad idea.

CCP would like to have a word with you.

[Jackstin]

lol, What??

Since when is lots of contents bad?

I sort of agree.. I've been playing off and on for a few years, and one of the things which makes me give up is the sheer amount of things like story-missions that it is difficult to get a party for nowadays.

I think new content is an excellent thing, but I also feel that they should replace some of the old content. A 2.0 reboot for FF11 would be very welcome in my eyes, not least because they could re-do the server and make the possibility of playing on future platforms more likely. After all, one day, there will probably be a Windows platform that FF11 doesn't work on.

[saevel]

Well with Tanaka back to directing things you have a 50/50 chance of seeing something new in last summer / fall of 2012. They designed the latest batch of content to stretch the lv 99 update out to late spring / early summer, they'll more similar content then to stretch it out to fall time 2012. Right now it's about making you pay as much as possible for as long as possible while investing the least amount of money into FFXI's development. Their down to a skeleton crew again like back in 09. You can actually *feel* it now, when comparing to the sudden wealth of updates / additions / content available over the Abyssea time frame (job adjustments, gear introduced, act..) to what we've got in the last updates. The new JA's are mediocre at best with ridiculous cool-downs to prevent them from changing game strategies (and thus not having to spend dev time ensuring fights aren't broken), the new gear is side-grades or just plan down-grades to whats in abyssea, the new "end game" event is just Salvage version 2. They got away with this in the past because we had this snarky believe that "SE doesn't care or listen" and pretty much treated everything they do as thought they were the most incompetent people in the world. But under different leadership suddenly they were acting like a regular MMO company, back under old leadership their no longer acting that way, so we now KNOW the failures are being done on purpose and not as a side effect of incompetent developers.

[Atomic_Skull]

I sort of agree.. I've been playing off and on for a few years, and one of the things which makes me give up is the sheer amount of things like story-missions that it is difficult to get a party for nowadays.

I think new content is an excellent thing, but I also feel that they should replace some of the old content. A 2.0 reboot for FF11 would be very welcome in my eyes, not least because they could re-do the server and make the possibility of playing on future platforms more likely. After all, one day, there will probably be a Windows platform that FF11 doesn't work on.

From what I have heard Windows 8 does not include DirectX 8 emulation like Vista and Windows 7 did.

[kewitt]

I would like to see a new road map for FFXI as the last one is pasted the last date of info.

But WOW. I think SE may have highered people from Wow. or maybe consulting with them because 2.0 just gave me new hopes for FFXIV..

[Atomic_Skull]

I would like to see a new road map for FFXI as the last one is pasted the last date of info.

But WOW. I think SE may have highered people from Wow. or maybe consulting with them because 2.0 just gave me new hopes for FFXIV..

Honestly I hate the new UI, it looks way too cluttered.

[svengalis]

Honestly I hate the new UI, it looks way too cluttered.

How? Is FF XI/XVI the only MMOs you ever played? The new looks just every other MMO out there that isn't on consoles LOL.

I actually like the new UI design never understood why they went with circles on the command bar instead of squares like everyone else uses.