Quote Originally Posted by Horadrim View Post
I'm expecting Pankration 2.0 -- I'll likely leave my subscription up until I deem FFXI completely unplayable for me, but for now I'm definitely spending less time on it... And that makes me sad.
You are probably right. Though it would be very surprising. If WoW can cloned Pokemon and made their own version, a good one too - SE should be able to clone Pokemon and give it FFXI twist. I mean SE do have experience with Dragon Quests Monster game. But we are talking FFXI team, they are not exactly known for their mastery of game design. If it is not overtly complicated - they won't do it, it has to be super complicated and make your head spin (and turn off pretty much every casual subscribers) then they will see it as success. If only 5% of their player base try it, then it's a huge success because the "dangle the carrot and stall their progress" strategy is working. Just cancel your subs, come back in 5-8 months time, you should have plenty of contents to consume and never have to deal with the annoyance to get there.