Adoulin missions ending points to..

[Zeargi]

What I wrote was that there is no cut off to making new ps2 titles, there are no more announced titles but any company can make more anytime they want, there is no directive passed down by Sony that no more can be made.

Could and Would are two very different things. If the pool for the PS2 was so small in the US that it didn't warrant a release, I doubt that there will be a 'bigger' pool in Japan now that there are two generations of console differences.

A more reasonable explanation for how long it took to finish WoTG is that they simply did not have the staff to work on it, they were all working on FFXIV. This is well documented since work on lots of titles was ceased and delayed due to that. Also one of the major development directives for FFXIV was that it was to be as unlike FFXI as possible, it's pretty obvious that the idea was to run multiple mmo titles and infact they stated the idea was to run multiple titles to maintain a steady cash flow.

So it's very possible that the next expansions could already be being worked on and may release in 2015.

While it's true that they wanted both games to continue in tandem, it's doesn't mean that they had a plan to release a full expansion passed WotG Orginally.

Wings of the Goddess debuted in the States: November 20, 2007. That is a MASSIVE 7 years ago. The conclusion update happened around Aug-September of 2010. Which that marks the official release of FFXIV: September 22, 2010 that ran until November 11, 2012. Coincidentally, The official announcement for the fourth WoW Expansion, happened in March of 2012 with a release date of September 25, 2012. Strangely enough, 3 months later, after nearly 2 years from the conclusion of WotG, and the increasingly poor reviews for and Sales for FFXIV, on June 22, 2012 an actual expansion was set to release April 11, 2013. 4 Months before the second attempt to get FFXIV:ARR off the ground.

The only reason that we got that expansion, in full truth was because FFXIV tanked and WoW was making yet another expansion further pulling away from 14. And even the CD we got was next to nothing for content. I'd love to see FFXI continue to grow and get more and more expansions, but the likelihood is very low. We'll most likely get another add-on scenario like Abyssea or the Crystalline Prophecy bunch.

[Pixela]

Could and Would are two very different things. If the pool for the PS2 was so small in the US that it didn't warrant a release, I doubt that there will be a 'bigger' pool in Japan now that there are two generations of console differences.



While it's true that they wanted both games to continue in tandem, it's doesn't mean that they had a plan to release a full expansion passed WotG Orginally.

Wings of the Goddess debuted in the States: November 20, 2007. That is a MASSIVE 7 years ago. The conclusion update happened around Aug-September of 2010. Which that marks the official release of FFXIV: September 22, 2010 that ran until November 11, 2012. Coincidentally, The official announcement for the fourth WoW Expansion, happened in March of 2012 with a release date of September 25, 2012. Strangely enough, 3 months later, after nearly 2 years from the conclusion of WotG, and the increasingly poor reviews for and Sales for FFXIV, on June 22, 2012 an actual expansion was set to release April 11, 2013. 4 Months before the second attempt to get FFXIV:ARR off the ground.

The only reason that we got that expansion, in full truth was because FFXIV tanked and WoW was making yet another expansion further pulling away from 14. And even the CD we got was next to nothing for content. I'd love to see FFXI continue to grow and get more and more expansions, but the likelihood is very low. We'll most likely get another add-on scenario like Abyssea or the Crystalline Prophecy bunch.

Well again you can't really state anything you said as fact, they asked US players in a questionnaire if they wanted SoA released on PS2 and they said no, which is why it didn't happen. They misunderstood the reasons they said no but still that's why. I mean honestly there is no valid reason not to keep releasing expansions, FFXI still gets monthly updates, still has a dedicated dev team working on it, gets monthly live letters and it still has a large number of players. FFXI is still one of the most popular mmo titles in Japan.

Concerning how it seems SE as a whole doesn't want to throw more money at XI. We haven't had a XI fanfest in years, the freshly picked look like something slightly higher than something someone could have done in their basement. Most players feel that the XI dev team is a skeleton crew or almost there. Though I will say that SoA was a nice surprise, but I doubt there will be another full blown expansion like this.

This doesn't make any sense, it gets monthly updates which are incredibly fast compared to almost any mmo you care to mention. That is by definition throwing money at XI, I've played games where it was obvious the devs had lost interest in the title and FFXI does not fit that bill at all. As for it having a skeleton crew, well that's been the case for many years now and we still got SoA so that's a meaningless argument. Development crew are not the same as a crew that makes an expansion pack.

FFXI still has a large playerbase who pay a high sub fee, especially in Japan and expansion packs really aren't all that costly to create since they always launch them bare bones and build on them over the following years. There is really zero reason not to put these out at all. People will buy them since we are a loyal bunch and there is no lockout on making PS2 discs.

I am certain one is coming because it's simply common sense that they would, I just wondered if SOA missions coming to an end signified it would be 2015 or 2016.