Ffxi ending

[Bluestar2kx]

I kinda do yes, I've played mmo titles for a long long time and I've played a lot of them.

New content to a game is what keeps the majority of people around, if this was not the case Square would of not updated XI for the last 13 years. They would not be updating XIV now, it's the life blood. I also have very little faith in players words, some of the strongest defenders of XI that I knew (that would play it till they took the servers offline), no longer play. Words are cheap.

Also as I said, there are a handful of XIV players how post here that have not played XI for a long long time. It's incredibly obvious who those are here.

Hey me too!^^

But be that as it may, as if most people don't know this. The people who flock to a new update leave a month later after they've done it, every MMO has this issue.... But assuming the game lives, these people aren't our target. We're (as in us and SE) not interested in the "majority" anymore. There's no way SE can pull them back to FFXI, esp after XIV, which is where they are. Not without spending tens of millions creating the game AS IS, in FFXIV's engine and borrowing suitable graphics assets that XIV already uses, and porting it all to the PC code base and putting it on the PS4 as well, and resume expanding our beloved world of Vana'diel, will SE get the "majority" to consider FFXI again.

We're after holding onto the dedicated players. Which don't entirely need new content like Vagary all the time or this game would be a lot more empty.
What the game has, and what bits they'll be able to add after major content ends in november will hold over a fair portion, probably enough of the games playerbase for the next few years. Maybe someday the game will sunset, but I doubt it will be anytime soon. People still play MMO's with far more outdated graphics and engines that are far older then FFXI with enough to support the games functions, and SE has said it takes little to run FFXI.

Yes some peoples words are cheap. But you can't consider just their words.
Most of the players who love FFXI most, who grew up with it, aren't teens with ample free time anymore. There's not enough time in the world for every player to be able to tend to life and play games. Some people have life sudden life changes (Me and my partner for example, just decided yesterday, we're moving in the spring (perhaps sooner) to the far side of the country), or other events that may require them to leave the game: jobs, schooling, deaths in the family, travel for any of those, having kids, all this happens in our limited awake hours.

This is not a judgement against them, but a testament to life, but I would bet money, they will never forget FFXI (Nor will I), and a fair bit would return if they could.
The old saying always was: You'll return to Vana'diel^^

[Sonicblue]

Ffxi was my 1st mmo but I stop playing when the lvl cap went to 99 and have not played since I play ffxiv right now it's a fun game. The things I miss from ffxi is old school stuff like sky sea limbus etc. it seems ffxiv is getting something like sky in the next update hope it is good tho

[Draylo-]

Ffxi was my 1st mmo but I stop playing when the lvl cap went to 99 and have not played since I play ffxiv right now it's a fun game. The things I miss from ffxi is old school stuff like sky sea limbus etc. it seems ffxiv is getting something like sky in the next update hope it is good tho

All those that you listed are already in the game in some variation lol... Sky and Sea are similar to Escha, Abyssea. Limbus is similar to skirmish, Walk of Echoes, etc.

[peculiar]

Ffxi was my 1st mmo but I stop playing when the lvl cap went to 99 and have not played since I play ffxiv right now it's a fun game. The things I miss from ffxi is old school stuff like sky sea limbus etc. it seems ffxiv is getting something like sky in the next update hope it is good tho

Just a heads-up, FFXIV is far too stuck in the wow theme park system to ever add anything you would find in old FFXI.

So if you are waiting for FFXI type content akin to sea/sky to find its way into FFXIV, well... have a nice long wait.

Also out of curiosity, why did you quit FFXI at specifically at 99? I recently asked my friend this (who now plays XIV) and I laughed at the answer he gave me, curious what yours will be.

[Draylo-]

cuz it ruined all my precious gear I got, we should still be killing byakko and pants should be best in slot for 20 more years!!! Ya know, even though gear is outdated every major patch in XIV. Most people play it for the graphics lol.

[pretre]

me and most of my ls that's been together for 8 years are just running out the clock to November, we lost interest in any kind of grind or farm the second they announced the plan. we just want to get to November for closure on this awesome game that's been a big part of our life, I see it as I finally completed ffxi.
honestly I think the second the November update is out the player base will start to drop off and when they drop consoles the game will be closed down pretty fast. just my opinion

[Olor]

I think there will be servers running for at least 2 more years, but there needs to be a merge after November.