Simple Question... Is there a future

[Secondplanet]

I've always seen board after board of people who complain about XIV or that it is the future of the FF:MMORPG series but i have one major question...

Is there any point of playing FF:XI anymore????

I've seen the plans for XIV like expanding the game with new area's but i really want to know if we are EVER going to see a real expansion or is this game for those who've enjoyed every story line in the game going to be a pissing match for better gear once your done all of that.

Its just a simple question.

Is there a future for this game. YES OR NO??

[Kaida]

Is there a future for this Thread. YES OR NO??

Fixed that for you

[Secondplanet]

Fixed that for you

I guess the complex nature of a simple question was too much for you....

[Kaida]

And the ablity to flog a dead horse is one of your specialities

[Secondplanet]

As much as your signature shows how your attempt to troll fails, All i wanted to know is if we're going to get new story content and thats all, I loved the story for ACP and WotG was an awesome time travel story line i really want a new story, I don't play this game for gear alone, i play for the player base and the story. New area's would be nice but a new story to occupy my time would be better.

[Kaida]

/sigh these forums need a lesson on what is a troll and what is not a troll.

This subject has been talked to death on the forums but I answer short and sweet.


As long as people play FFXI it has a future.

[cidbahamut]

/sigh these forums need a lesson on what is a troll and what is not a troll.

This. A thousand times, this.

[Zarchery]

People were asking the same question 6 years ago. So I'd say yes.

[Vold]

It does to some kind of an extent. Thing is they chose to focus on everything else but "big" content for this year. And I'm sort of glad they did because it's stuff that they've been putting off for years because they were always so busy with the "big" stuff. It's not doing us any favors in Voidwatch, though.

My only hope is that the next add ons will not be related in any way whatsoever to WotG or the word Void. Shit was cool for the first three years. Now it's just getting repugnant and stale. I'm glad they are doing what they can and I know they can't just make us stand by for 2 years while they whip up some awesome expansion pack. But once VW is done it would be much appreciated for the voidwalkers and maws to go the way of the dinosaur and let present day Vana'diel as we know it return to it's former glory. She deserves better than only being useful for magian trials and ToAU content. Even if it means another copycat zone. For example, modern day Grauberg/Inlet/Fort could be released. It could be Abyssea minus the buffs, time limits, everything that makes Abyssea Abyssea. The thing for it would be 3 new end game zones where people can enter freely, and has timed/force/lottery NMs to target all over the place. It can be content for both the casual and hardcore player.

Now maybe the average casual player couldn't half ass their way through such content, but the point is content for both types of players can co exist in the same zone. And while I rather see new zones, this one idea here just makes sense. The zones didn't just vanish out of existence so they can be used for present day Vana'diel to some extent. I don't really care too much what zones they use and whether or not it's reskins. But if I have a choice, which I don't but if I had a choice, I would choose my idea over voidwatch. I want more content like sky/sea/abyssea and less of the event style stuff with 30min-1hr time limits.

I want to spend more time enjoying end game and less time WAITING to enjoy end game.

[Sparthos]

Im shaking my head so hard at Voidwatch that I almost wish they just continued churning out 3 Abyssea zones per patch till the game died off.

Perhaps then we'd get a storyline or something. Rebuilding Abyssea, interdimensional trade disputes, Abyssean brigands wanting to settle lands in Vana'diel by force, war between Abyssea and Vanadiel, Exdeath giving a long drawn out speech about the void, colonization of Abyssea by Vana'diel... something.

As it stands the Voidwatch cutscenes are about as intriguing as watching Cid's dislocated jaw. There is no story, there is no reason for shit coming out of a rift, the droprates are awful and we're certainly not playing Final Fantasy.

No matter how hard WOTG is slammed for having a lack of content, the story content was Final Fantasy tier. We might as well be playing Generic MMO XI right now.