Long Term Options

[machini]

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."

[Avina]

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."

There is the incorrect assumption on SE's part that XI players will go to XIV. XIV is a completely different game.

Embarrassment or not, unless they fix XIV to be more appealing to XI players, this is just a move that will cost them money.

SE has tried to kill XI before, I somehow doubt they are going to do it again. XIV is reviewed VERY poorly by the Japanese, actually... just look at the game's Amazon.co.jp's reviews. Out of like, 450 reviews, 200 are 1s and another 70 or so are 2s.

They can try and kill this game if they want, but just like before, they've missed their mark with XIV (at least in relation to the Japanese).