Final Fantasy XI Future love!

[Nashred]

I am not disagreeing with you..
FFXIV is a different grind. it is the same grind over and over.. It progression vertical or what ever they call it just does not seem to be liked. I mean everything is out dated in weeks.

For that matter a new FFXI just needs to use its progression it has now for gear.. It does not need to be as hard as it was for cop. Lets face it FFXI we have now is majorly nerfed and not so hard and my server has over 700 people on right now.

I left FFXI for a little easier game but not such a casual game as it is though.. Something between FFXIV and ffxi would be nice with some harder content that dropped some nice gear,

The raids in FFXIV are not done because they drop garbage, tomes gear is easier to get and is just as good.. You put better rewards in those raids and people will do them.

I just want some gear that is actually not obsoleted in less than a month. I want to run a dungeon that aint the same cookie cutter recycled content dungeon. Only reason I still sub to FFXIV is me and my girlfriend have a house and she does not want too loose it if the game gets better and we want to go back...

[Alhanelem]

I just want some gear that is actually not obsoleted in less than a month.

I don't understand why this bothers people so much. I had the exact opposite problem in FFXI for years, where I was wearing the same gear and played tons of content without ever finding an upgrade (or at least an enticing/impactful sidegrade). I was tired of looking the same all the time, and I didn't have anything to shoot for. And that's why I like FFXI more now than I did the first time I took a break from it, because I don't have that problem anymore. FFXIV has glamours so you can keep your look if you like the way you looked before getting new upgrades, and FFXI has style lock which more or less does the same thing.

[Nashred]

I don't understand why this bothers people so much. I had the exact opposite problem in FFXI for years, where I was wearing the same gear and played tons of content without ever finding an upgrade (or at least an enticing/impactful sidegrade). I was tired of looking the same all the time, and I didn't have anything to shoot for. And that's why I like FFXI more now than I did the first time I took a break from it, because I don't have that problem anymore. FFXIV has glamours so you can keep your look if you like the way you looked before getting new upgrades, and FFXI has style lock which more or less does the same thing.

I agree people did look the same but glamour solves all that.. Anyway I hate continually doing the same thing and all I feel that I do is work for gear that is garbage. I run roulette through cookie cutter recycled over abused game of dodgeball dungeons.
You like the game and its content and that is fine I dont and no matter what anyone says it wont make me like the game till they release some new different content not just the content that I just did.. Do all MMO's recycle content sure bit not like this and I am not playing them so I do not care. I see FFXIV has potential . Again why is this turning into debate over FFXIV. I was just stating I would like a new version of FFXI maybe on the FFXIV engine.

[Alhanelem]

I agree people did look the same but glamour solves all that.. Anyway I hate continually doing the same thing and all I feel that I do is work for gear that is garbage. I run roulette through cookie cutter recycled over abused game of dodgeball dungeons.
You like the game and its content and that is fine I dont and no matter what anyone says it wont make me like the game till they release some new different content not just the content that I just did.. Do all MMO's recycle content sure bit not like this and I am not playing them so I do not care. I see FFXIV has potential . Again why is this turning into debate over FFXIV. I was just stating I would like a new version of FFXI maybe on the FFXIV engine.

See for me it's not even that important what the gear does functionally. As long as I'm able to enjoy the content it's not that important to me if I have to keep up with the Joneses. The answer to why you think it's turning into an ffxiv debate is because you brought it up (and you picked on it, as is common here).

At any rate, what you're asking for will absolutely never happen, I would bet my life on it. IF you want FFXI on FFXIV engine, you may as well just play FFXIV, because they're not going to do it. They basically ruled out a remaster in their original announcement about the future of the game. It would be a wonderful thing to be sure - who wouldn't want their favorite game to keep up with the times - but it will simply never happen. The good news is we can look forward to content updates continuing for the FFXI we already know and love. if only they would just unlock the frame rate so things feel smoother, that would be amazing.

[Zehira]

Ha, my point is I just like the way the game we have now like how my friends love to play Diablo 2 in 2015. If they are really going to make another FFXI with FFXIV engine then please please please keep the duty finder out of it. FFXI is good for what it is without fast leveling and many useless junkies. Party finder can work fine for everything even though I think trusts can be a smart thing for exp parties and stuff. If we can't find a healer to join our exp party then we can summon a healer and let it a healing machine.

Other than that, I see more Japanese are still playing it which is a good thing I think because SE isn't going to shut down the servers any time soon that are located in Japan.

[Laughlyn]

I just want to add that "Servers" can be simulated so i dont see an "Offline" version of FFXI an impossibility.

What i really meant with my OP, was that this would be the first of any FF online game...someday that might just be completly
unplayable / unavailable since its an "Online game" only, and therefore never to be played again (sometime in the future)
The first FF game to actually die?... that dosent sit to well in my book.

Games like the FF genre are legendary games & should never be forgotten or to be unplayable one day.
The android version of FFXI... w/e its called will never stand up to the original FFXI monster that we all love.

Remakes / re-releases of older FF games proves how much we love the FF games, and why they should last for generations to come.
FFXI & FFXIV should not be any diffrent, just because they are online games.

FFXI could use an updated gfx patch etc... in the future, and if not by SE....well...maybe the community.

anyhoo...

Much <3 FFXI !

- No0my

[Vanfrano]

I agree that my main worry is that one day we won't be able to play FFXI anymore.
I have pretty much all FF games and I can go back and play each and any of them whenever I want to and it makes me very sad to think that this might not be an option for FFXI, the game I spent the most time on.
The mobile version will never be or replace the FFXI that we know and there needs to be a way to give us access to the game even when the servers will be closed.

[peculiar]

If they put the horrible xiv engine into xi the game would lose most of the players it has.

[Avina]

For what it's worth, though--it doesn't seem like Heavensward performed nearly as well as SE had hoped (since it really just introduced more of the same kinds of grinds), whereas RoV seems to have overperformed. Hence, why I think we're getting all this new battle and story content through 2016 (which a year ago in March, pretty much was nonexistent).

I definitely worry about the long term future of XI, but at the very least, we have some good news for the foreseeable future. And based on Yoshi-P's announcements regarding criticism towards his approach to XIV (which has primarily been "whatever, we're staying on this path") I think there will be more players turning their eyes back to XI as XIV continues to just churn out the same stuff.

[draconus]

A lot of love has been put into this game between the Devs and the Players for the 11+ years it's been around. I think if some way some how SE upgraded the graphics to FFXIV levels, and added one final expansion (that I tried to suggest quite a while ago), this game could definitely squeeze another 10+ years online.

I know I will definitely mourn when they close the servers and don't release a single player offline version of this game. When PSU shut down I was still playing (and still do) their offline "story" mode. Only problem was when they closed down the servers they didn't release the final episode 3 that was only available online and left the game unfinished.

FFXI has way too much story to go through to leave unfinished when the servers close. Top that off with the massive amount of different quests available for each area/nation etc.