Is there a future?

[Luvbunny]

I think the question is can FFXI survive 6 months it takes to release SoA.

Six months? lol I think it is more like a year minimum. They will release a content with 10% activities to do with barely any quests or story missions implemented. WoTG, which is their last expansion lasted over 6 years, where you actually able to finish the last missions and get your reward. SIX whole years to finish a mission. They really cannot operate like it is still 2004 anymore, otherwise just make the game free to play and let players buy any new add ons that they see fit. I can guarantee you that the majority will buy Abyssea, Neo Dyna, and Voidwatch only. The rest of these so called new contents will be dropped in a heartbeat and will be considered failure at launch.

[Arcon]

My friend got a 2week suspension on his account for being in these parties, At the time the GM stated that by gathering all the mobs of the zone and killing in one big blast was considered RMT activity by using the drops for gil.

Either your friend or you are lying, I suspect the latter.

And thats why i see trains of characters with names like asdfg running through towns and receiving 2-3 /tells a week from them offering me gil at amazingly low prices. Yeah really sounds dead to me.

Whether they're dead or not is not measured by the fact that they're playing, but by the fact how much gil they're actually selling. Evidence I have supporting my statement is reason for one, because I find it hard to believe that anyone is dumb enough to buy gil anymore with so many easy and quick ways available, and especially on a game at this late stage. Also, I don't know about Asura, but I didn't get a single tell in years. Also, character names mean shit.

I'm not saying it as a "doomsayer" i wish to know why SE keeps working against themselves lately and even more so with these boards that were made to listen to us on a better field being ignored now more then ever.

Only they never did anything else. SE have been pushing idiotic moves, one after another, ever since the game was released, and they never listened to anyone at all before these forums (although I agree that it seems like they still don't, I think I'd attribute their "listening" to players' requests to coincidence at this point). Hence, you proclaiming that suddenly everything got worse and they're evil or stupid or whatever, is nothing more than doomsaying.

Then they should change more then just that then, trumpet rings still NPC for a fair amount and i always see the same few people crafting them for hours nonstop by a NPC and that has been abused more then chocoblinkers by use of fishing bots, So if i'm right your saying legit selling of items to NPC's shouldn't be allowed but using 3rd party programs to make money is ok then?

While I hope they adjust that as well, nothing was even nearly as bad as cruor in that respect, not by a long shot. This needed to be addressed asap.

WoTG, which is their last expansion lasted over 6 years, where you actually able to finish the last missions and get your reward. SIX whole years to finish a mission.

It was three years (November 2007 to December 2010). Which is still very bad, and one of the two reasons WotG failed as an expansion in my eyes (the other being lack of rewarding endgame content).

[Luvbunny]

It was three years (November 2007 to December 2010). Which is still very bad, and one of the two reasons WotG failed as an expansion in my eyes (the other being lack of rewarding endgame content).

WoTG has many great ideas that lift invisible walls and offer players events that can be joined by many. Unfortunately, SE did a real poor implementation on WoTG ideas, and still yet refuse to adjust it and acknowledge many great ideas that players have contributed in the forum. Zilart has relic, ToAU has mythic, Abyssea has empyrean, and yet WoTG was given a lackluster downgrade of Empyrean. A lot of things they did make absolutely no sense...

[Secondplanet]

Either your friend or you are lying, I suspect the latter.

You must have missed out on a lot of the game, you do know the game has been going on for more then the limited time its obvious you have been playing for.

Whether they're dead or not is not measured by the fact that they're playing, but by the fact how much gil they're actually selling. Evidence I have supporting my statement is reason for one, because I find it hard to believe that anyone is dumb enough to buy gil anymore with so many easy and quick ways available, and especially on a game at this late stage. Also, I don't know about Asura, but I didn't get a single tell in years. Also, character names mean shit.

In the LS i'm in we're always joking over all the tells we get and to see who can get more in a certain time frame, the way it looks like it works is they go in alphabetical order cause someone with a name starting with L will get a tell and about 30mins-1hour later i'll get one. Also with the character names mean shit you mean to say if you saw a whole party of characters with names like asdfg, qwert, zxcvb and tyuui all on anon doesn't seem a bit off to you? or are you one of the ones employing them?

Only they never did anything else. SE have been pushing idiotic moves, one after another, ever since the game was released, and they never listened to anyone at all before these forums (although I agree that it seems like they still don't, I think I'd attribute their "listening" to players' requests to coincidence at this point). Hence, you proclaiming that suddenly everything got worse and they're evil or stupid or whatever, is nothing more than doomsaying.

I would say that everything is starting to get worse, with the lack of new material, expansions, decent time sinks its easy to see that all they have been doing lately. I have all expansions finished and mini expansions and with VW and legion etc... nothing more then a waste of time for gear with no relevance to any form of a story. I have been seeing more and more changes to abilities and other aspects of the game with little to no positive effect on the game itself.