New Roadmap and FFXI's direction

[Leonlionheart]

The players they are losing due to stupid updates are mostly the players that have put in thousands of dollars each into this game over the last 10 years, who would love to continue playing, but have run out of things to do.

Abyssea attracts "ADDHD" players, who will likely quit within this year once they finish their emp in a week and get full AF3+2 in a couple of days.

"Well that was fun while it lasted, but now I'm just sitting in PJ waiting for a VW shout because I have nothing else to do to advance my character."

Then when you get that VW group, they're either wankers who have no idea what's going on or a tried and tested bunch of players who have been doing the same event only for the same 5 people to continue getting all the drops for all the wrong jobs.

That's losing them money. Money they can't spend on FFXI, or FFXIV, or FFXIII-2, or FFXIII Versus, or Chocobo jumps on your iPhone, or any of the other completely waste of time things they've done with themselves the last 5 years.

[Alhanelem]

Abyssea attracts "ADDHD" players, who will likely quit within this year once they finish their emp in a week and get full AF3+2 in a couple of days.

At one time that was my diagnosis (Now it's AS instead), but I certainly didn't get some shiny and quit within a year. Be careful how you label people. Not to say that no one who has played this game was as you describe, of course, but just because someone is autistic/aspie/ADD/ADHD doesn't automatically mean what you say. Often such people find an activity that "clicks" with them and they are able to focus on it intently (though often to their detriment, as with anything done in excess...).

I've been playing since about 3-4 weeks after the NA release. It's taken to this point where I'm in basically the same position as you: Looking for some kind of real new content that is both interesting and doesn't have to be spammed 100,000 times to get what you want.

[Kimble]

Funny how the forum went form "waaah abyssea is to easy to get good gear" to "waah voidwatch is to hard to get good gear"

[Alhanelem]

That's what FFXI needs: Pandas.

[Zarchery]

The players they are losing due to stupid updates are mostly the players that have put in thousands of dollars each into this game over the last 10 years, who would love to continue playing, but have run out of things to do.

That's an interesting observation. When did you get access to Square Enix's records?

[Zarchery]

Personally, I'm still trying to finish off some mission lines, then I'll probably quit, since without new areas and new storyline, the game doesn't offer much to me.

However, I am not so arrogant that I believe that the majority feels the same way, or that my departure would be some sort of death knell for FFXI. It would be one subscriber who no longer wishes to play FFXI, and cancels his account. That's all. It has no predictive value. Only Square Enix, with their market data, can make remotely accurate reports on what drives away players.

[Leonlionheart]

That's an interesting observation. When did you get access to Square Enix's records?

Not hard to figure out that 12.95 per month for 10 years = $1,295.
+50 for initial purchase
+40 for CoP
+40 for ToAU
+40 for WotG
+30 for ACP, MKE, ASA
+30 for Abyssea
So we're looking at players who bought everything as it came out pouring $1,500 into a game that SE is driving into the pig's slop

Personally, I'm still trying to finish off some mission lines, then I'll probably quit, since without new areas and new storyline, the game doesn't offer much to me.

However, I am not so arrogant that I believe that the majority feels the same way, or that my departure would be some sort of death knell for FFXI. It would be one subscriber who no longer wishes to play FFXI, and cancels his account. That's all. It has no predictive value. Only Square Enix, with their market data, can make remotely accurate reports on what drives away players.

Kinda a bit of logic if you can figure out that there's tons of players leaving since heroes of abyssea came out because updates are totally useless

[Morier]

WAH more crying over things that haven't happened yet. It all looks great to me see ya next month with another i quit thread at the end of that month.

[Rearden]

ITT: People who think SE will make decisions that benefit players

[Krashport]

That's what FFXI needs: Pandas.

They took away my Pandas, Sooo wrong! ; ;