New Expansion in the works? Please tell us!

[Elexia]

Sadly nothing that exciting. It was an exciting idea to play as a monster when they announced Monster vs Monster, but now that XI is pretty much..meh, it has to be the most amazing system ever or 2012-2013 is pretty dull, also note no Atomos.

[Teraniku]

To quote Robin from Young Justice, the road map for the rest of 2012 leaves me seriously "whelmed" with a tinge of disappointment.

[Lisotte]

What? People actually expected SE to put the effort into making an entire new expansion?

[Lastranger]

What? People actually expected SE to put the effort into making an entire new expansion?

oh yes.

Reason : they can cover price tag of it as they sell new expansion (we allways get to pay for these so it should self fund ) and also do some return player packs that will boost some return of monthly revenue.

If anything ive learned about Ffxi since i started 04, people may leave take breaks etc but usally come back in time.


Also after the years since the last true new expansion of Toau, that gave us new ares and storyline the new expansions after have been lackluster on new ares due to rehashing of timeline/dimension area's, though wotg did have a nice storyline.

We still got loads of area's mentioned in lore that we havent seen so there is room for it, but i do realize most likely due to 14 hogging a lot of the dev manpower for it's 2,0 any true expansion has probbably been pushed down the timeline.
i wouldnt be surprised if its the make of 14 + the later remake that is partly responsible to our lack of true new expansions into new areas as more dev was moved to the new mmo and was meant to only be temp delay on new expansion but got prolonged after the frenetic work to try fix the fail launch and redo 14, hence probably why we got so much more rehash as the greater bulk of dev team was pushed to 14 to band aid it toghether.

Or it could just have been a decision from leadership to save money due to some of the latest losses.

But Ffxi still got a good crowd, and with some revamp on ui mayby a fix on graphics, a new expansion could pull new players into the game as well as old players that are on break/left.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

People, come on!

Think of all the effort that went into the PowerPoint!

[Alhanelem]

There's nothing more important than a good powerpoint slide.

Especially when you consider that a bad powerpoint may have contributed to the Challenger disaster.

(Bad bullet pointing in a NASA powerpoint and a modern version of the telephone game are believed to have caused important details about the space shuttle's status to not reach key officials and thusly caused bad decisions to be made/incorrect instructions given)

[RocStar]

Learn something new everyday....

I think the only way you will boost player returns and new subs (old players returning, possibly dragging new RL friends in with them) is by announcing an expansion, kill PS2(maybe even all consoles) and let us explore some of the areas we already know exist in the game. They could have released Abyssea with new areas, from game lore, with the same mechanics, in one massive expansion, and it would have been even bigger in popularity. Sure the story would have to be completely different and more relevant to the rest of the game...


My vote is new expansion, or 3. Doesn't Everquest have like 10+ expansions, and people are still playing that sucker, and it is ooooollllllddd.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

kill PS2(maybe even all consoles)

They're not going to kill them outright, at least not for another year, but I think the timeline implies that most of their focus (at least through December) is going to be on the PC experience.

Think about it: for years after launch, trying to play the PC version in a window was a bannable offense, on the premise that it gave PC players an unfair advantage. Now, by 2013, even if all the features of Windower aren't implemented within the game, Windower itself will be legitimized. And that's on top of all the UI tweaks the PC already has that the PS2 and even the 360 don't have.

At the very least, they're no longer bound to the idea that all three platforms must be equal; even XIV's PC version will have more bells and whistles than the PS3.

So long as the fundamental game mechanics don't change drastically, there's no reason to kick out the console players, even if the PC got a whole new graphics engine.