Square Enix obviously wants to kill FFXI

[TullemoreAsuraFFXI]

Thanks to nearly 20 years of service, FFXI has undergone 5 full expansions, 3 small dlc, 3 large battle packs + Dynamis (D) and countless additional version updates and battlefield additions. As of 2020 FFXI has one of the top robust accumulations of content in gaming. Those who persist with this idea that they've exhausted the content available should increase their perceptions to explore FFXI's full offerings beyond what is just considered current tier equipment acquisitions. That being said, the most desirable and effective action SE could implement would be to upgrade/evolve the /seacom system to allow for a more modernized way for players to coordinate party formations for objectives designed for players to accomplish as a team.

[Typral]

They don't impact your gameplay though, so why do you care who multi-boxes?

[Sirmarki]

They don't impact your gameplay though, so why do you care who multi-boxes?

They kind of do though. Yell used to be full of people creating content. Now it is 99% mercs.
Mercs are mainly the same person controlling a party of characters. These people would not be able to sell this content by playing on their own with one character.

Sure, people multibox, and that is their style. Just don't sell everything under the sun.

This has a devastating effect on the game. I have been back one month, left myself logged in for hours while I was doing other things. I have seen virtually 5% of yell with people creating groups and 95% mercs, RMT, Exp/JP sellers.
Every single yell I have seen relating to the new battle content added over the past few months has been people selling the items from said battlefields.

[Alhanelem]

Can always come to Shiva if the mercs and RMT are annoying you. The smaller servers are much better when it comes to this stuff. IMO it's totally worth the legwork you need to make friends and such.

[mkultrafanboy]

the FACT that Square Enix, a massive AAA company, chose NOT to devote more resources to making this game more accessible, is proof that they want this game to die, so that people will have no choice but to play FF14.

Why did they create 14 only 6 years after their first MMO 11? Because they were super greedy to get that huge WoW money so they rushed out a WoW clone of sorts. Then they fully turned it into a WoW clone with ARR. Square Enix is an extremely greedy company and all the original devs left by 2004 at the latest. Even still, 14 is the best MMORPG on the market right now, which proves how bad the MMO genre is presently.

[Zehira]

so that people will have no choice but to play FF14.

Nothing can stop them from playing FF11. They could just quit doing any business with Square Enix and move to private servers.

Fun FFXIV 1.0 story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWIrju3F6nU

[Alhanelem]

the FACT that Square Enix, a massive AAA company, chose NOT to devote more resources to making this game more accessible, is proof that they want this game to die, so that people will have no choice but to play FF14.

Why did they create 14 only 6 years after their first MMO 11? Because they were super greedy to get that huge WoW money so they rushed out a WoW clone of sorts. Then they fully turned it into a WoW clone with ARR. Square Enix is an extremely greedy company and all the original devs left by 2004 at the latest. Even still, 14 is the best MMORPG on the market right now, which proves how bad the MMO genre is presently.

You really dont understand how businesses and investments/investors work do you?

This has nothing to do with desire on SE's part. SE, like any other corporation, devotes the bulk of its resources to things that, based on cost-benefit analyses it conducts, it finds likely to lead to the most growth and profit in the company. This leads to more people buying stock (shareholders) based on the promise that the company will continue to grow.

You're really kidding yourself if you think dumping a big pile of cash into FFXI itself is going to suddenly print tons of money for SE. While it in fact may be possible that they might do a true remastered version of the game with updated interfaces, graphics, controls, engine, etc (hell it could even be this surprise they've been talking about, although i doubt it), it would probably be a separate project (like the mobile project, but not mobile), and we'd probably be starting from scratch.

If SE actually wanted the game to die they would have just pulled the plug years ago. The fact is, that while FFXI may be a shadow of its former self, it still makes money for SE, and they're not going to just terminate the game and lose those relatively easy subscription dollars. So no, they don't want it to die. But at the same time, they probably don't think a big cash infusion is going to make huge waves.

[Sirmarki]

So no, they don't want it to die. But at the same time, they probably don't think a big cash infusion is going to make huge waves.

However...

Things do need to change....

1. A clamp down on people selling content.. (The mass of botting/RMT).
2. Better moderation (and if not, EXTEND the BLACKLIST past 100).
3. More forms of content, be it through even the simple things such as RoE quests etc.. (Not just copy and paste jobs).

After all, we are paying FULL market rate.....

[Zehira]

However...

Things do need to change....

1. A clamp down on people selling content.. (The mass of botting/RMT).
2. Better moderation (and if not, EXTEND the BLACKLIST past 100).
3. More forms of content, be it through even the simple things such as RoE quests etc.. (Not just copy and paste jobs).

After all, we are paying FULL market rate.....

Too late, you were gone for how long? 6 months? Since the GMs don't trust us enough to help the community (crazy people on Asura), I have came here to change everything in order to stop that madness. Too many crazy separate threads that will never get an answer from the STF which in fact did affect Asura greatly. I know the STF did a weird thing against me from the last summer but they stopped doing that after I posted here. I have never made any reports, never GM call, never been banned, never been sent to Mordion Gaol, never grief another player in my life. FFXI is just different that everyone else I know is just happy.

[Sirmarki]

Too late, you were gone for how long? 6 months?

Yes, and before I left for that time SE a few months back released a statement about how they are going to come down hard on RMT/Bots.
Nothing, however, seems to have changed. In fact, it seems to have gotten worse.

Anyone advertising the selling of job points and then saying it is a '24/7 service'. Is either botting, or has a warehouse of people doing night shifts. Unless somebody has invented a magic pill
whereby you no longer need to sleep anymore(?)

Seriously though, all I ever asked for was the ability to blacklist people past 100. It was even confirmed as an "Accepted Bug" back in October 2019....

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ight=blacklist