Rereleasing FFXI

[Vold]

Blizzard is an American company, so we here in the US see a ton of their advertisements. Square Enix is a Japanese company, so people living in Japan see tons of Final Fantasy XI advertisements. They have magazines, billboards, posters, merchandise, the works.

I don't think FFXIV even got that much publicity over here aside from gaming-specific news outlets, which is all FFXI ever got. I've never seen a FF14 TV commercial or magazine ad. The company just does not seem to feel that the advertising dollars are worth spending overseas. It's not uncommon, really. The EU, as far as I know, gets that sort of treatment a lot.

Edit: On Topic, I'm sure the Dev team would love to do this. Hell, any Dev team would. But I highly doubt they'll get approval for the time, the man-hours, the extra workforce, etc. Even if the Devs we currently have were to attempt something like this (assuming they have even have people who can do this sort of work already on staff), we'd be looking at a year+ without any updates to the game while they worked on it.

They seemed to have worked on expansions and add ons perfectly fine while still providing updates to the game, which I'm sure was no more or less difficult than working on new graphics. Work is work. I much prefer them to work on content over graphics but let's face it, as long as the PS2 is supported FFXI isn't going much further expansion wise. Eventually all they'll have left is a graphical update for PC users.

[Atomic_Skull]

well if it's not that, why does it run so poorly?

They probably want a unified codebase that they can compile to PS2 Windows and Xbox 360. I would guess that they use wrappers and just compile the core PS2 code for the Windows and 360 versions of the client.

[woie]

while they are at it they could fix all the failbox glitches and make a PS3 version so the ps2 can GTFO

[Dazusu]

I get the distinct impression that the OP wants all of us players without major-money gaming rigs (computer and console) to GTFO... Would I be correct in this assumption?

Pretty much correct. GTFO.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

As much as i would love the idea of FFXI With better graphics/FPS Rate/etc...

I think its just too late in the game to implement something like this. Plus the population is dwindling, Slowly, But still doing so. A lot come and a lot go.

WoW did it, come on SE, jump on the band wagon!

[Mirage]

WoW didn't redo their entire graphics engine, they just improved on one that was already much more efficient and PC-optimized.

Also, they have 12 million subscribers, they can afford anything.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

WoW didn't redo their entire graphics engine, they just improved on one that was already much more efficient and PC-optimized.

Also, they have 12 million subscribers, they can afford anything.

They do now have 12 million subscribers. They have 12 million characters created. And it wasn't just a re-optimization, they were smoothed and made more detailed.

[Swords]

Upgrading the graphics is certainly doable with FFXI. Since all the game data is on our computers to begin with and all the servers do is tell our computer where everything is, what graphics/skins to upload from the database, and what animation or action an object is doing it certainly wouldn't effect the gameplay server side.

But like others have said, it's pretty late in the games predicted lifespan, and rehauling graphics would certainly be overly painstaking and costly for a game who's remaining lifespan is unpredictable.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

But like others have said, it's pretty late in the games predicted lifespan, and rehauling graphics would certainly be overly painstaking for a game that has an unpredictable expected lifespan.

It's not a late game issue. It's because SE tried to end all FFXI content in favor of FFXIV. Which we all know what happened there. Now they have to re-evaluate their stance on FFXI which leaves a perfect oportunity for an update in these regards to rekindle the player base.

[Mirage]

They do now have 12 million subscribers. They have 12 million characters created. And it wasn't just a re-optimization, they were smoothed and made more detailed.

They had 10 million subscribers in 2008, and it has increased since then.