Quote Originally Posted by Dale View Post
Last I read Final Fantasy XI has been SE's most profitable game ever and was still making money. I don't understand their motivations for terminating new content in November.

I would prefer they consolidate the remaining players and set aside enough resources to provide new content. I believe for most of us simply preserving our character data will not be enough to keep us interested long term.

The only possible good I can see coming from all of this is that perhaps they will pay more attention to Final Fantasy 14 and make its systems more complex so that it might appeal to the players who opted to stay on 11. Adding interesting materia or a more intricate battle system which allows for unique and varying play-styles would be a nice start. Otherwise I can't help but feel this is a slap in the face to loyal fans who have dutifully supported this game for many years.
They're terminating FFXI because it is a horrible embarrassment to them that people still play this game when FFXIV is out. Especially considering how horrible FFXIV was on release, to require them to completely scrap the game and remake it. Having people still playing FFXI, by choice, over FFXIV, basically says "FFXIV isn't good."