Rereleasing FFXI

[Kiroko]

I would have really liked if SE or who ever decides these things would have put the time and effort that they did in FF 14 into XI, I don't think it would be too late if they made a bigger effort for people to see the game out there. Everyone knows what Wow is because of TV etc, why don't they do something like that? (No Mr.T Please)

[Greatguardian]

I would have really liked if SE or who ever decides these things would have put the time and effort that they did in FF 14 into XI, I don't think it would be too late if they made a bigger effort for people to see the game out there. Everyone knows what Wow is because of TV etc, why don't they do something like that? (No Mr.T Please)

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.

[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.