Disclaimer: This is not a debate thread; thus, I am not getting into debates with anyone. This is just a suggestion. If a dev responds to it with a "Nope" or "Yeah," then I will come back to it with a reply. Otherwise, this will be my only response until the topic eventually falls by the wayside into obscurity
FFXI is obviously making more than general maintenance cost. I would guess there are 700-100+ players per server give or take. With 16 total servers. That may be around $120,00.00 (Estimate, not EXACT by any means) a month, not counting mules, gil sellers and purchases of the game.
(There is more to it than that, such as maintenance cost and ppl paid to produce content, but math is boring. Now, to the meat of what I am talking about......)
I truly believe FFXI could add more areas and races, because they added more areas and races in the form of NPC with special features and animations........ Basically, I feel like it is time for a new DLC with some new races.
I would personally like a race with Black -esque features like Afro, dreads, bigger, lips, muscular physique instead of skinny, etc. Also, it would be a nice time to introduce male Mithra which would most likely be a huge seller. Perhaps even hybrid races like Hume/Elvaan like Lisette.
You must also remember, while a DLC cost money to produce, it also has the potential to negate those cost with sells.
That is pretty much all I wanted to say. The last update was pretty solid, to me at least, as a BST. So bravo to the team. I feel FFXI has more creative juices to offer from the team. Anyway......May take another break for now. So, peace everyone. Thanks for reading, if anyone did.