Final Fantasy XI PS3 Version

[Teraniku]

They do not:
*Put in research into this elaborate game.
*Put any effort into becoming a team player (or even any real effort into their own characters development in all honesty).
*Get upset when they want more out of the game than they can from their lack of time to play.
*Get upset when others do not want to play with them because (in addition to bullet one and two) they have developed their own opinions bereft of any actual data. Then get an attitude on top of that.
*Go complain that because of failing to do bullet one and two that things should change to conform to their world.
*When people give them <blank> about it because of their ranting and raving they get even more attitude about the community (you know as I write this a player who starts with an 'R' and rhymes with Sh-moe-Sh-mina comes to night) and eventually place the blame on the community.
*Decide they are sick of not having things the way they want, place some blame, complain, and quit.

This is a big problem with some of the playerbase. I remember doing a few Promyvion runs back in the day, setting up the time, etc. Even though I was past the Promy's I'd still farm up my Anima's etc. When the time came to do the fight, I'd say "do you have your anima's?" "What are those?" was usually the response I would get. A few people would actually have meds, so sometimes it wasn't too bad, but I could probably count on one hand the people who were actually ready for the fight.

[Vold]

Japanese threads gets quite the many likes. The latest FFXI > PS3 thread has nabbed 80 likes. This has been common place over there and SE still chooses to ignore the demand so I guess we're really going to be waiting this out for another few years before they're faced with the music of reworking FFXI once the PS2 becomes unrealistic to support. Tiny bit hopeful(I admit, extremely dangerous 'round c'here)that a few dozen people get shifted back to FFXI post ARR release to start work on re-visioning FFXI for a new era to ensure it spends another ten years steadily giving them free millions of dollars every month. Probably won't happen if 14 miraculously gets a second chance with gamers. History is heavily against it's success. Shall be interesting.

[Arbalest]

The Devs are not putting out bad content.

Going to stop you there.. You see, they HAVE been putting out bad content. All we've seen in a long while are revivals of old content.. Odin II, Neo-Nyzul Investigation, the Dynamis re-work (which is actually good).. and Voidwatch. Neo-Salvage only adds to the list of 'old content revival', even though it's not coming for quite a while.

If I have any complaints about the current content, Voidwatch is my biggest complaint. What can I say about it? It's boring. It doesn't inspire much strategy - the norm for any VW run is pop, spam temps, proc, spam more temps, mob dies, repeat. With VW being some of the only content I haven't caught up with since I started playing again, I really want to get it done - but it's hard enough to find people for clears, and combined with the content being so lack-luster, filler-esque, and overall boring, I can't bring myself to even log in on some days.

Oh, and the drop-rates, SE's beloved RNG; I haven't even gotten started about that yet.. the drop-rates on some gear from VW mobs are horrendous, and ridiculously so. Cells need to actually do something besides turning logs into petrifacts and petrifacts into logs.. It's called VOIDWatch, right? Not Petrifact-log-Watch? I've done hundreds of runs for some things, and I see other people get multiples of say.. Athos boots, in a single run, while all I see is logs, logs, and more logs. Maybe the occasional ingot - but that's no excuse. The RNG should not constantly reign over FFXI's players. And pulse cells are a terrible idea too. Let's take the horrendous droprate on an item, give you the option to turn it into a cell, and then it'll sell for millions upon millions of gil! Yeah, that's a good progress system.. oh.. wait, it's not.

FFXI has plenty of bad content that drives players away. Abyssea is one of the only good things about XI right now, because the gear is good, and getting Empyrean +2 armor doesn't depend on stupendously-horribad drop rates.

With Seekers of Adoulin in 2013, the dev team needs to accomplish two major things: 1) not take 5 years to wrap up a story after the expansion's debut, and 2) make content that is actually progressive, and not completely based on RNG. If they fail to accomplish either of these, then I definitely see FFXI breathing it's last breath the following year.

[Arbalest]

Japanese threads gets quite the many likes. The latest FFXI > PS3 thread has nabbed 80 likes. This has been common place over there and SE still chooses to ignore the demand so I guess we're really going to be waiting this out for another few years before they're faced with the music of reworking FFXI once the PS2 becomes unrealistic to support. Tiny bit hopeful(I admit, extremely dangerous 'round c'here)that a few dozen people get shifted back to FFXI post ARR release to start work on re-visioning FFXI for a new era to ensure it spends another ten years steadily giving them free millions of dollars every month. Probably won't happen if 14 miraculously gets a second chance with gamers. History is heavily against it's success. Shall be interesting.

A Realm Reborn is actually the game I'm currently waiting to see. Yoshida has done an amazing job of making an entirely new game over the course of 2 years. The zones look fantastic, I like the pace of the battle system so far, and each new piece of information I see gets me even more excited to finally play it this year, or the next. It does have the odds stacked against it, but that dev team has worked nothing short of miracles the past two years. I'm really hoping FFXIV gets off the ground when ARR finally launches.

[Luvbunny]

When FF14:ARR goes down in a fiery bonfire the second time around and forced them to adopt free to play, maybe they will reconsider upgrading FFXI to HD and remastered it for another "anniversary" edition and put out real advertising.

[Mirage]

You shouldn't wish for that. Chances are more games than AAR would see a cut in funding, considering all the money they've spent on it. It's not like SE has infinite money.

[Demon6324236]

You shouldn't wish for that. Chances are more games than AAR would see a cut in funding, considering all the money they've spent on it. It's not like SE has infinite money.

Psh~ sure they do!

[Chronofantasy]

This may be pushing it but i would love to see ffxi and ffxiv combined in a package sometime after ffxiv is released on its own for ps3. If they were to enhance ffxi for ps3 then that'd be neat.

[Arbalest]

When FF14:ARR goes down in a fiery bonfire the second time around and forced them to adopt free to play, maybe they will reconsider upgrading FFXI to HD and remastered it for another "anniversary" edition and put out real advertising.

The day SE drops support for their more-advanced and more-effort-put-into MMO that failed 2 years ago is also the day that FFXI drops PS2 support, PC gets an updated client with a graphic facelift, and it'll also be they day they actually start listening to the players and implementing all the best ideas from their fanbase; it's also the day when they ship their expansions with more than just empty zones and one quest, and they have the story mostly finished at release and it doesn't take 5 years to complete.

tl;dr an updated FFXI will NEVER happen.

[Behemothx]

When FF14:ARR goes down in a fiery bonfire the second time around and forced them to adopt free to play, maybe they will reconsider upgrading FFXI to HD and remastered it for another "anniversary" edition and put out real advertising.

This! Last time I've seen FFXI for sale in stores was like... eh, 2008 collection in 4th qt?

I'm still amazed to see new people sneak around, how do they expect new people in this game if the game is barely for sale anywhere - and add to that the problem we have even paying them following that C&B fiasco.