Why Cant Final fantasy 11 get the same treatment?

[Alhanelem]

Yeah. I just installed Office 2010 and I have to say, for such an old program, Microsoft Excel sure is spiffy. I'm sure there are other MMOs out there that receive similar revamps successfully.

Because word processing software and games are the same thing and marketed the same way.

[Concerned4FFxi]

WOW is releasing a new expansion I heard

Also the mystery survey about which platform users play on for 11 is hopefully because they are planning a finale to 11.

As I said in another thread, I hope empyrean weapons, armor, and abyssea were to prepare us for a final add on, otherwise what's the point of grinding in abyssea or vw?- can't be for the last stand that's been in the dat forever so it can't be true endgame like sea or sky was.

[Alhanelem]

Also the mystery survey about which platform users play on for 11 is hopefully because they are planning a finale to 11.

MMOs don't have "finales." they just get their plug pulled.

The mystery survey about platforms is likely to find out how few people play on the PS2 so they can consider dropping it.

[Greatguardian]

Because word processing software and games are the same thing and marketed the same way.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh.

It's a joke.

EVE online = Excel in space.

[Alhanelem]

Ha. Hah. Funny. I guess...

[Zumi]

WOW is releasing a new expansion I heard

Also the mystery survey about which platform users play on for 11 is hopefully because they are planning a finale to 11.

As I said in another thread, I hope empyrean weapons, armor, and abyssea were to prepare us for a final add on, otherwise what's the point of grinding in abyssea or vw?- can't be for the last stand that's been in the dat forever so it can't be true endgame like sea or sky was.

They usually give you a few months warning when they are about to shut down a mmo. But I don't think SE is actually losing money running FFXI so they probably won't be shutting it down anytime soon. If they lost so many subs that it isn't worth their while to run FFXI then it would probably get shut down.

[svengalis]

They can't because of the practicality of it. It makes little sense to revamp an 8+ year old game that pretty much has had nearly all the subscribers it will ever have when they can improve a game that's still young and re-market it and potentially gain new subscribers.

It also can't be fairly done without dropping console support.

I said it before in another thread, but not putting anything into improving FFXIV will not automatically suddenly mean that a revamp for FFXI would happen. The funds and manpower would most likely be invested in a new or other project, such as one of the other MMOs they're also developing.

Actually I think it makes absolutely ZERO, NO sense at all to try and support and rebuild a failed game(FF XIV) versus building upon or rebuilding one that is making you a ton of money. FF XIV is fail, you need to get over it Square Enix needs to get over it. It will be a miracle if they can save that game.

[svengalis]

EVE Online says differently.

There are quite a few MMOs that have been revamped that have been out as long as or longer then FF XI. Some with even less subscribers.

[Mirage]

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh.

It's a joke.

EVE online = Excel in space.

That was actually a bit clever. I've never played EVE so i didn't know

[Runespider]

It makes more sense to spend money on a successfull game with an high pop steady userbase than a total failure with a very unsure future. This whole thing is about saving face on a failure game though not business sense.