Why Cant Final fantasy 11 get the same treatment?

[katoplepa]

anyway, SE can't read minds and can't pilot the people's feelings: I'll never play 14 even if they'll do the 3.0 version of it, and I have a lot of friends who are thinking like me, if they shut down 11 I'll say goodbye to MMO, I don't restart from zero another MMO (fail like 14 too).

if 11 is still loved and played, a serious company HAVE TO continue supporting the game their customers want to play.

[Zagen]

anyway, SE can't read minds and can't pilot the people's feelings: I'll never play 14 even if they'll do the 3.0 version of it, and I have a lot of friends who are thinking like me, if they shut down 11 I'll say goodbye to MMO, I don't restart from zero another MMO (fail like 14 too).

if 11 is still loved and played, a serious company HAVE TO continue supporting the game their customers want to play.

Once upon a time I had this same mind set, I've quit FFXI before, even deleted my character only to make a new one and start from 0. I had friends invite/re-invite me to join them in FFXI, WoW, LoTR Online, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Champions Online, DC Universe and probably others I can't remember. I haven't taken every offer up but I have taken a few offers up before.

Once FFXI dies I'll likely try FFXIV again and if the changes made make me happy I'll stay if not I'll leave and find something else to do with my spare time.

I'm not saying you're gonna do the same thing you or your friends might?

Edit:

So we all agree - starving XI in the hopes that XIV can even ever break even is a terrible idea? Yes?

As a FFXI player yes I agree.

Edit2:

Nah, I know it's gonna be expensive. Moreso if they ever do a proper PC rebuild of the core engine. All I'm assuming is that the costs to maintain the game are distinctly lower than the cost of building an entirely new MMO twice over(which is basically what's happened with FFXIV).

Rebuilding the core engine is required to maintain FFXI for the years to come. So those costs are part of maintaining it.
FFXIV was built once over and relatively cheaper parts of it are being rebuilt so it isn't being rebuilt twice over.

[wildsprite]

anyway, SE can't read minds and can't pilot the people's feelings: I'll never play 14 even if they'll do the 3.0 version of it, and I have a lot of friends who are thinking like me, if they shut down 11 I'll say goodbye to MMO, I don't restart from zero another MMO (fail like 14 too).

if 11 is still loved and played, a serious company HAVE TO continue supporting the game their customers want to play.

I totally agree with this and have the same attitude, 14 is fail, I tried it, only nice thing I can say about it is...well its shiny, that's it, I'm not going to drop XI to play XIV, I dont care how much work they put into it, when XI dies thats it for me