The FINAL FANTASY XI roadmap for the twelve-month period commencing April 2011 (Woo!)

[Karbuncle]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ing-April-2011

LINKY^.

So Confirmed is a Test Server(!!), NPC Fellows getting level 99, That the "Voidwatcher" is likely a VNM or ZNM Type System (First picture is one of these new NMs clearly in Dangruf Wadi), Awesome Furnishings, New Armor for specific types (A Mage set, a Light Set, and a Heavy Set). etc etc

New Armors look nice though. Epic looking Concept Art, Those zones look Boss...

[Runespider]

The Last Stand

Not the best name for content added near the end of the planned year.

From this it seems no new expansions either, not even mini expansions.

[Karbuncle]

Not the best name for content added near the end of the planned year.

"The Last Stand" Is actually the name of a zone in the .dats if i remember correctly. It looks like Horutoto Ruins. Its been there for a very long time. I remember reading about it some time ago on BG.

It would be neat if they're finally releasing it. GD i'm so excited about these updates now its making me shake.

[ShadowHeart]

i have to say thanks to SE for releasing a road map this is a new step for SE they haven't typically laid out in the past clearly what kind of direction they were taking this is a great post from SE and a nice start for communications with their player base wish they had started this forum 5 years ago lol guess better late then never XD

[Lushipur]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ing-April-2011

LINKY^.

So Confirmed is a Test Server(!!), NPC Fellows getting level 99, That the "Voidwatcher" is likely a VNM or ZNM Type System (First picture is one of these new NMs clearly in Dangruf Wadi), Awesome Furnishings, New Armor for specific types (A Mage set, a Light Set, and a Heavy Set). etc etc

New Armors look nice though. Epic looking Concept Art, Those zones look Boss...

finally they reskinned the globe furnish to be cool....too bad i must have dropped that or stored on a deactivated pg...

[PizzaTheHut]

No level increase until August? Meh

[Elexia]

No level increase until August? Meh

What can't you do at level 90 still?

[PizzaTheHut]

What can't you do at level 90 still?

It's not what you can't do...it's about having something TO do. I'm done almost everything I cared about doing in Feb. Almost every jobs gear is +1 and stored. Jobs I care about have +2 (same with linkshell members) except a few on hands big deal. No quests or missions to do all done. Most agree Aby is drying up. Maybe not for the new players but us veterans who've been supporting the game since day one are waiting for the next big thing.

Adding some new battle (Void) just to keep people paying isn't gonna cut it. Yet more battle, more equipment to gather to no end. I'm not getting any more than what Aby had unless they add trials to them(which they no doubt will)

People were expecting a real expansion/add-on(new jobs, areas, continent, story line) outlined. They claim zone cap because of PS2 but I'm sure they can work around it.

Most players are just sticking around to see level 99 and have some fun with that. Not like the player base can significantly climb, only drop. People getting bored is not a good thing for the games future.

Oh well, I'm sticking around for May update then probably canceling for June and July.

[Sagian]

What can't you do at level 90 still?

Northland Campaign lol

Really, though, I was under the impression that 95 level cap was slated for March and 99 for June. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I think I read somewhere that the level cap was to increase every quarter.

[blowfin]

I think I read somewhere that the level cap was to increase every quarter.

Yeah it sort of appeared that way. Pretty sure it was announced a while back that there wasn't going to be a level cap increase for this next major update though.

Speaking of Campaign Battle wheres the updates for that?

Campaign sure could use a major overhaul. I think the shadow lord BC is a good example there of untapped content too. I think it was available for all of about 2 conquest rounds on my server and I never had the chance to do it after changing countries and losing my rank.