February 2022 FINAL FANTASY XI Digest

[Sfchakan]

Actually appreciated this update, but I hope (but not hold my breath) that the team may one day revisit the problem of loading times for inventory. This update brought an improvement on the user end and some optional additional storage for those who which to purchase it.

Thanks.

[RandomCanadian]

I appreciate the extra inventory but I have 2 comments:
i) I am disappointed you didnt take the route to have job-specific inventory that loads only when on that job. Would have been a more elegant solution, although I guess more difficult to monetize.
ii) the steep cost increase associated with the new wardrobes has caused several friends to quit in frustration. This is very bad for the game. Please reconsider your payment structure for the additional wardrobes. Your milking your most dedicated players dry.

edit: for the record, I cancelled 7 mules and spent hours moving stuff around so that I am paying the same as before (actually a dollar less). Maybe that's why I'm still around. Pro-rating the cost of the expanded inventory would go a long way to quell accusations that the delivery of expanded inventory was a cash grab. I like your game but I'd like to not feel like a sucker for being loyal and sticking around.

[Pixela]

Recycle is one of the best QoL additions they have added for years.

[JKap_Goat]

I want the Valentine's day outfit but please make it available to purchase though a moogle, or make the quest gender locked so Male/Male and Female/Female can do it. Trying to get the opposite sex to do the quest is fustrating and some people who have male NPCs don't even lock the outfit.

[Alhanelem]

ii) the steep cost increase associated with the new wardrobes has caused several friends to quit in frustration.

Nobody said anyone had to buy them....

While I feel they should have at least added 1 more free space, the previously existing paid wardrobe services were shown to be instrumental to FFXI maintaining a solid bottom line

I won't be quitting in frustratin because I didn't use 3 & 4, thus I didn't need 5 6 7 8 either. And, as you pointed out, players who do need these were also probably using mules, and cancelling those can make up the cost of adding another wardrobe. IDK. I can understand the frustration, but I think this is a case of expectations set too high more than anything else.

[RandomCanadian]

Nobody said anyone had to buy them....

True, but current form of implementation has definitely left a bad taste a lot of peoples mouths. A (formerly impossible) change was anticipated for years only to finally materialize in the form of a (never-previously-mentioned) premium service which nearly doubles the monthly cost of the game. Many saw this as a fix rather than a perk, given that current end-game encourages gearing/mastering many jobs. I don't think its too high of an expectation to get an inventory fix without doubling monthly subscription price.

[YosemiteYogorockBlondelle]

True, but current form of implementation has definitely left a bad taste a lot of peoples mouths. A (formerly impossible) change was anticipated for years only to finally materialize in the form of a (never-previously-mentioned) premium service which nearly doubles the monthly cost of the game. Many saw this as a fix rather than a perk, given that current end-game encourages gearing/mastering many jobs. I don't think its too high of an expectation to get an inventory fix without doubling monthly subscription price.

True, I mean {Reaally{ "I guess" all the costs to pay those working on this game could be told to work for free on this game and outsourcing costs we can't see ourselves that's going on could be put out to pasture in letting them just rise endlessly higher? I know the real gripe is that due to differences in each countries currencies the cost of the fee can be tremendously greater than another countries currency in paying the price in costs but it also can be said that in the opposite direction as well being that while the price cost may be significantly higher in some countries it would be greatly significantly far more cheaper in others compared to that countries currency forking over to paying the price that's been put up in only one countries currency listed price. {An Example}: Like USA currency it is is only $2buck's per MWDrobe while in another counties money to pay that $2~Dollars price becomes thousands of dollars higher than that $2's is being issued for the price on said purchasing item.

~Food For Thought! & Maybe a bit of worldly Mathematics Too!!~

[Sfchakan]

I'm kind of surprised they didn't offer a discount for buying all of the paid for Wardrobes, to the point of the last one basically being free for buying all of the others. Or something along the lines. Oh well.

[Jelmer]

Congratulations. I cancelled the subscription of my 2nd account and will instead unlock one or two extra Mog Wardrobes in which I can put gear, allowing me to play more jobs in my main. A couple of others have done the same, or have canceled Mog Wardrobes on a 2nd account, so they could take them on their main account. If your goal was to milk your loyal players dry for some extra cash, it appears you have played yourself. Now if you were to fix the servers only sending us half the information once we reach R3000, causing everything with more than a couple of people and/or mobs to lag I'd happily pay double the subscription cost.

[Pixela]

Congratulations. I cancelled the subscription of my 2nd account and will instead unlock one or two extra Mog Wardrobes in which I can put gear, allowing me to play more jobs in my main. A couple of others have done the same, or have canceled Mog Wardrobes on a 2nd account, so they could take them on their main account. If your goal was to milk your loyal players dry for some extra cash, it appears you have played yourself. Now if you were to fix the servers only sending us half the information once we reach R3000, causing everything with more than a couple of people and/or mobs to lag I'd happily pay double the subscription cost.

>please add this feature I keep whining about
>costs money
>what? no I wanted it for free! along with no increases in the base subscription for the past 20 years >.<

>1 year later
>please add this thing!
>"no"