Enough is enough

[Venat]

Jaall you have a good point, however, they cannot just let FFXI fall to the wayside before FFXIV is cemented in as a viable MMO to spend time playing. The way FFXIV tanked when first released will certainly affect how it is received when ARR comes out, though i honestly hope that it succeeds. If it were to fail again, i imagine SE would be in quite a bit of financial trouble.

Alot of FFXI players want 14 to fail but if it did it would probably destroy FFXI mainly due to SE being in financial crisis. SE been putting 300~500+ people to work on the game alone and SE been using there own money to fund FFXIV, not the stock market cash.

[Yinnyth]

Alot of FFXI players want 14 to fail but if it did it would probably destroy FFXI mainly due to SE being in financial crisis. SE been putting 300~500+ people to work on the game alone and SE been using there own money to fund FFXIV, not the stock market cash.

I think MMOs are more profitable than you may realize. If FFXI were not pulling its own, we would not be here talking right now. They would also probably cut off their own arm sooner than cut FFXI.

#1 Lack of SE support for FFXI
#2 Dev's dont pay enough attention to FFXI community.
#3 Quality of updates are poor/too slow/weak.
#4 Not enough people working on the game.
#5 Dropping Ps2 support and upgrading UI/graphics.

#1 How do you fix that?
#2 How do you fix that?
#3 How do you fix that?
#4 How do you fix that?
#5 How do y- oh wait, that one was a suggestion.

All of these things require money to fix (well, 2 is arguable, but the others). It feels like SE doesn't support their game well enough because we remember a time when the game was pulling in over a million dollars a month in subscription fees. You can do a crapload of stuff with that kind of money. If you want things to go back to the way they were, we either need a large influx of players or we all have to start paying more. And I'm not talking about "hey, I'm willing to throw a few more bucks per month at the game", I'm talking about every account of every player costing 5x as much as it used to.