Make FFXI Free to play!

[Amaroq]

Would be kinda cool if FFXI was free to play if you were paying for a character in FFXIV....would be incentive for all XI players to check out XIV.

Wont happen of course ^^

[Spectreman]

FFXI wouldn't succeed as a F2P model simply because it's the most time consuming MMORPG out there. Almost everything takes forever to accomplish (even walking through areas), almost everything requires help from multiple people to get stuff done (even your own artifact armor). That was cool in the beginning of the MMO era when interaction was the biggest thing but nowadays nobody wants that. Its all about time spent/reward. Well besides us crazy people that are addicted to this.

FFXI might even be rediscovered by a new generation of players but for them to stay the game has to change A LOT. And honestly i doubt the majority here that are getting their Adoulin gear through endgame linkshells would like the changes.


Like someone already said the market for low level gear is basically dead. Its scary to be honest that i came back to the game after 3 years to find it near impossible to gear yourself through the AH. Actually almost the whole Auction House seems dead right now. As a returning player i sincerely gave up on the idea of doing Abyssea.


There are no linkshells doing them and i came to a conclusion that either SE close the gap between Adoulin and pre Adoulin themselves or we might start recording youtube videos to remember our good times before the servers are shut down, because when veteran players start quitting the game the gap that Abyssea created between players will kill endgame linkshells and the game itself right after.

[sc4500]

FFXI might even be rediscovered by a new generation of players but for them to stay the game has to change A LOT. And honestly i doubt the majority here that are getting their Adoulin gear through endgame linkshells would like the changes.

They had it with abby , just that guy, he got pulled off of ff11, before he was able to finish all the stuff and was forced to fix ff14 with a big fat raise, and, Then we got the guy that wanted to change the game back to his way(the old style and He would not listen to the fans). Now this new guy got a mess to clean up again with seekers and it sucks he got to fix issues instead adding stuff., because this game was on the verge of being amazing again with abby system and if they could have just added FF14 gear in ff11 then . Your able to bring to FF14 some the gear you earn in FF11 that would have been a game breaker for mmos and this game would even been crazier then any mmo in the world in a amazing way.

[Anjou]

I'm really going to miss FF11 when it finally comes time for it to be shut down.

[Amaroq]

I'm really going to miss FF11 when it finally comes time for it to be shut down.

I really don't think the game is in a rush anyway...maybe some server merges. I believe EverQuest is still running since 1999 and is on its 19th expansion. Hosting a server is getting cheaper and cheaper.

Would be nice if fees could at least go down...maybe by half.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Hosting a server is getting cheaper and cheaper.

Oh, I'm sure all the servers are hosted out of a shoebox at this point, but that codebase for new content doesn't get any younger or less Byzantine. And SOE, ironically enough, doesn't have to worry about keeping people who still understand the PS2 on the payroll.

[Numquam]

FFXI is F2P for me. My mommy pays the monthly fee.

[Hayward]

I cannot say one way or another whether F2P is the last hope for FFXI. Part of me would argue that it would only cover up the things that are still wrong with the game--archaic game philosophy, misguided job balancing, catering to endgamers only, among other issues. Another part would say that F2P couldn't hurt if S-E found it in them to change to the FFXIV engine and spruce up the UI.

I'm not sure going to the Guild Wars 2 model would work at this point (One-off payment to play, for those who don't know), but it couldn't hurt.

[Rustic]

They had it with abby , just that guy, he got pulled off of ff11, before he was able to finish all the stuff and was forced to fix ff14 with a big fat raise, and, Then we got the guy that wanted to change the game back to his way(the old style and He would not listen to the fans). Now this new guy got a mess to clean up again with seekers and it sucks he got to fix issues instead adding stuff., because this game was on the verge of being amazing again with abby system and if they could have just added FF14 gear in ff11 then . Your able to bring to FF14 some the gear you earn in FF11 that would have been a game breaker for mmos and this game would even been crazier then any mmo in the world in a amazing way.

The second S-E murdered (rather than fixed) the lower-level play by giving people an amazingly trivial road to 30-99 and similar tactics for new players to 10-70, they'd basically cut the roots out from under the game. Now the game is essentially starting when you can enter Dynamis -> 99.