Final Fantasy XI 2.0

**Molech** · 10-19-2011 03:38 PM

I just love this thread, people just can't accept the fact that XI isn't and never was going be the future after the release of XIV. XIV was always the future, sure it failed pretty hard and lots of hard lessons were learned but it was always going to be the replacement and if they scrapped 14 then I'm sure 15 or whatever the next MMO FF was going to be next was in line for XI's replacement.

I would laugh if SE came out and said: "Sure we'll give you FFXI 2.0, with Producer Tanaka and all accounts wiped" then none of you would be for it. This crying and whining is over the fact that this games ending is inevitable and people put 9 years into it while never wanting to give it up while its successor who will eventually be superior in every single way is going to be the new love of the company.

Some people need to make plans to move on, sure they'll continue to update the game and give you new low drop rate carrots to chase but at the end of the day, thats all XI is going to be.

**Atomic_Skull** · 10-19-2011 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by Molech

I just love this thread, people just can't accept the fact that XI isn't and never was going be the future after the release of XIV. XIV was always the future, sure it failed pretty hard and lots of hard lessons were learned but it was always going to be the replacement and if they scrapped 14 then I'm sure 15 or whatever the next MMO FF was going to be next was in line for XI's replacement.

Anyone else notice how people with opinions similar the above all have extremely low post counts?

**MarkovChain** · 10-19-2011 07:33 PM

Ever since 2011 idiots have been saying ffxi is dying. With level 99 I think we will be busy for 1 year and after that I'll look at ffxiv v2

**Xellith** · 10-20-2011 02:12 AM

Compare FFXI to FFXIV. I think FFXI is soaring high into the sky like an cake aeroplane with bacon wings.

**Byrth** · 10-20-2011 02:45 AM

Originally Posted by Xellith

Compare FFXI to FFXIV. I think FFXI is soaring high into the sky like an cake aeroplane with bacon wings.

That sounds delicious, but your meaning is entirely obscured by the analogy being stupid.

**scaevola** · 10-20-2011 02:57 AM

Call them fanboys all you want but that is what mmos players are made of . The reason wow succeeded is because it attracted all the fanboys from warcraft. A majority of their player probably only ever played one mmo too.

Well, yes and no. Granted, Warcraft has a lot of brand recognition (but more than Final Fantasy? Probably not, at least at WoW's launch), but I think the biggest factors were that it got a lot of press for being a radically more acccessible take on the well-known-but-famously-opaque MMORPG and since then it's actually taken a lot of steps to release new content very quickly and completely re-invent itself through expansions.

It may be that WoW was the first MMO for a lot of people, but that doesn't mean it was the last. WAR and AoC were propped up through huge launches by bored WoW players who were looking for something new out of the formula, were disappointed by those games' glaring and persistent flaws, and by and large returned to WoW when a new patch came out. I remember seeing the subscription numbers for WAR a few years ago; they explode at launch (9/08) and then immediately tank when Wrath of the Lich King comes out (11/08). It's hilarious.

I mean, the whole package might not be your cup of tea but you've got to admit that WoW did a lot of things differently than its forebears, took a lot of risks (a subscription-based MMORPG with an easy leveling curve and accessible endgame? Just begging for people to get bored!), and has done a lot more right than it's done wrong. It succeeded because it is a very good game, and Blizzard deserves its boats of money.

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