Thread: Final Fantasy XI 2.0

Originally Posted by Nynja

Honest question: Whos gonna want to play FFXIV when everyone who managed to stick through that BS of the past year has every job maxed out? Whos gonna want to play catch up to that extent?

Remember what FFXI was like when NA's got involved.

I seem to remember FFXI still growing at that time and reaching half a million paid subscribers.

Having a decent portion of high levels on a server means the economy is established and there will be plenty of goods and items to support newer players. It's not a bad thing.

Originally Posted by Nynja

Honest question: Whos gonna want to play FFXIV when everyone who managed to stick through that BS of the past year has every job maxed out? Whos gonna want to play catch up to that extent?

Remember what FFXI was like when NA's got involved.

Ehh, I think a lot of people actually.

Plus, they will be releasing new servers for 2.0 (even language-specific ones) so you can start fresh with everyone.


Btw. People need to understand why they are doing this: XI wasn't a fail, XIV was, it destroyed their reputation. And they want to show that it can be regained, that's why their putting so much work into it. If they only worried about current costs then they would just close down XIV. Instead they allowed people to play it for free while giving them updates. What Yoshida is attempting is quite insane, but if he succeeds then it will mean a lot for the whole company, and if 2.0 is just another fail, then well... S-E can just pack bags

Originally Posted by Gokulo

Plus, they will be releasing new servers for 2.0 (even language-specific ones) so you can start fresh with everyone.

You don't want region specific servers, PSO players can tell you why that is.

Originally Posted by Atomic_Skull

You don't want region specific servers, PSO players can tell you why that is.

if it was run anything like this forum, the Japanese server would get twice as many updates. that would suck.

Originally Posted by FrankReynolds

if it was run anything like this forum, the Japanese server would get twice as many updates. that would suck.

Pretty much that yes. In PSO the english servers fell further and further behind in updates till they were getting new content a year behind the japanese servers. Then they said it wasn't worth running them anymore and shut them down.

http://www.square-enix.com/jp/recrui.../plbattle.html

SE is looking to hire additional people for FFXI Battle Planning.

Camate, could we get some additional information on what this pertains to and what it means for us? Any info on an updated roadmap would be good as well.

ITT: Lag and framerate is the same.

Which if you read back, I already named. They were down to three or four servers a while after the launch. They revamped the tutorials, added a solo difficulty, revamped the graphics engine with DX 10/11 support, added a ton of new content, new classes, and rebranded the game "DDO Unlimited" and re-marketed it, along with the F2P model. They've more than doubled the number of servers and then added one more German server later after integrating the Europe version of the game and going international as FFXI has (Oddly, there's a fair few players from Korea who have a rather big guild on the server I played on).