What's With the No Future Expansion or Addons?

[Alhanelem]

PS2 is no excuse, they can make an expansion for the other platforms and leave ps2 as it is.

People who only played on the PS2 and may not have a PC (I know a few myself) would be more likely to quit than go out and buy a PC or an xbox if forced to upgrade.

[Runespider]

People who only played on the PS2 and may not have a PC (I know a few myself) would be more likely to quit than go out and buy a PC or an xbox if forced to upgrade

Really? I don't know anyone that plays that has no access to either a PC, xbox or ps3 even if they mainly use ps2. All the other 3 options are cheap now too..can even buy them 2nd hand on ebay, I highly doubt there are many people that are so poor they can't buy one of these cheap options for a better experience. If they are why are they paying for a monthly sub for an MMO.

Anyway I never said not to carry on supporting PS2, I said to give expansions for everyone else. No matter which way they went PS2 players won't get the expansions anyway so it's no loss to them at all either way.

The small number that would genuinly not upgrade, ever, under any circunstances after playing for years and the prospect of a massive boost to the game is so small it's insignificant.

[Alhanelem]

Really? I don't know anyone that plays that has no access to either a PC

There are a lot. I personally know people who literally bought a PS2 and got internet access just for this game.

[Karbuncle]

There are a lot. I personally know people who literally bought a PS2 and got internet access just for this game.

But you have to admit, That Situation is incredibly limited, probably less than 1% of the FFXI population Owns nothing but a PS2 to play it on. I wouldn't say "Theres a lot", Cause I have not met a single one outside of the people you've mentioned.

A lot of them probably bought it for the PS2 to begin with for whatever reason, and just don't wanna pay for the expansions on their PC (Even though its like, 5$ now). Who can blame em.

[Runespider]

Right, they could drop the PS2... except a large majority of the JP playerbase supposedly plays on PS2, that'd be shooting themselves in the foot on the long run.

Considering FFXIV at best will only really appeal to FFXI gamers if this is true they will have no audience to sell the game to on PS3.

Sometimes you have to make the hard decisions, lose a few thousand players or lose them all, no more expansions or a stagnant game when there are very strong competitors coming out is not a good thing.

Also I doubt a large majority of the popular goes 90 days without buying anything on the Auction House (that's FFXIAH definition of an active character) and we're not even counting the mules included in the numbers, the real number is probably much lower than SE care to admit.

I had 5 accounts and many jeuno mules, I only ever bought shihei on 1 mule and never anything else. Even that was so infrequent that even that single "active" char now and then had a red X on it. Lots also have alts for Abyssea soloing now and as I said unless you buy shihei there is very little reason to buy anything on the AH at all so yeah many players will appear inactive but still play since they just don't have a reason to use the AH.

[Zaknafein]

Is this schedule of updates not the exact same or almost at least schedule they gave us at the beginning of Abyssea? People acting like "OMG! Oh noes!!! this is the end of updates 4EVARRRRRR" Seriously chill out. The have a decent amount of things for us to do coming up soon. What with dynamis revamp, and this new battle content we've yet to experience.

I know as a long time player. One who was in a balls to the wall End game linkshell for almost 2 years prior to Abyssea doing events 6 out of 7 days. I have a few things I still need from dynamis, and there's plenty of -1's I still need. Being able to low man some dynamis, tackle this new battle system coming, and finishing up a few things here, and there in Abyssea will satisfy even a hard core type such as myself. Not indefinitely sure, but with summer around the corner it should last till the cap goes up.

Best thing we can do to show SE we want a full sized expansion is too show your support on here. Let em know you are down to drop $40-50 on a full expansion. Idk what the costs involved are exactly, but most expansions in the past were 25ish iirc. If we're willing to go almost or double that, and take into account it can be downloaded now which saves costs. I would think there might be a shot at it if enough people voice their support!

[Chronofantasy]

As some mentioned about Abyssea with 3 add-ons. I always considered Abyssea almost like a full expansion, although it was small. You pay $30 if you want the entire thing, and you got your storyline there with all the jazz, and several bosses that must be defeated. I know there is only 10 zones to explore (Empyreal Paradox being one of them) and they all look similar, but so did most zones in WotG anyways.

I believe SE will make a new full or parts of a huge expansion in the future where we can explore new lands and continents. Maybe they are in the works of one right now. Right now I think the lvl cap increase is a lot of work for them to make sure job abilities, skills, and spells are balanced and not over powered. It seems like they also want to tweak any other issues players had in the past since there's a pile of those fixes/changes players been demanding. I can see us having a great new expansion sometime after we reach lvl 99.

[Alhanelem]

I wouldn't say "Theres a lot", Cause I have not met a single one outside of the people you've mentioned.

That's true to an extent, but I don't "know" a lot of people- so if I know multiple people who are in this situation, it stands to reason there are other people that do too. In japan, with the game being released for PS2 first, there are many more PS2 users there.

[Karbuncle]

That's true to an extent, but I don't "know" a lot of people- so if I know multiple people who are in this situation, it stands to reason there are other people that do too. In japan, with the game being released for PS2 first, there are many more PS2 users there.

I know a lot of JP play on the PS2, But thats not what i was addressing :X, I was addressing that You mentioned some people "Only owning a PS2" for FFXI, no computer, Xbox, nothing.

i said "There's probably not more than 1% of the FFXI population who only owns a PS2 to play FFXI".

I can't prove it but I'd stand by it. In this day and age theres very few households that don't own at least 1 Computer. I know some people obviously don't for financial reasons...

[Miiyo]

I'm all for exploration, but I think people want something engaging to do, over exploration. When WOTG did come out, I explored just enough to get all the campaign battle areas, and I was satisfied with what I saw along the way. All the while, I was a bit irritated and ready to get to the fighting. If people truly wanted content(story) and exploration, questing would be more requested.

The world of FFXI is already huge. Why not put more time into making those "engaging things to do" instead of wasting time building newer places that will lose it's "wow" factor within days. FFXIV is pretty as hell with all the new lands you can ask for, but it was rejected for a good reason.

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