FFXI deserves and needs an Expansion Pack announcement similar to Seekers of Adoulin

[Sp1cyryan]

All attention should be on the main game, not mobile garbage.

It's just sad ff16 is taking up any spare capacity to add anything to 11, however maybe in a year or so that will change.

Stop complaining about random stuff SE does like you have the best understanding of their priorities and interests. It is really obnoxious and ignorant.

[Pixela]

That's exactly what they are doing though, the reduced budget out of nowhere this year also aligns perfectly with how poorly ff16 is performing in pre-orders and recent interviews. 14 has also been starved of content for the past 1-2 years.

The division didn't hire a ton of new developers to make 16, they used all the same developers that are employed to work on 14 (and they add stuff to 11 when there is time to do so).

[ManaKing]

Well yeah because if you hired a bunch of new people for XVI, then you'd just fire them later when you're done with only 1 game. There isn't upkeep like there is for XIV or XI. So why not use people you already know can do the job?

They've been moving XI to maintenance mode for years. They just did it slowly because the development cycle for XI is slow in general. The statement that they were downsizing was just for transparency because they would have gotten backlash otherwise.

Adoulin was a decade ago and rapsodies was 2015. This game has been slowing down ever since, this is not recent.

[Alhanelem]

Well yeah because if you hired a bunch of new people for XVI, then you'd just fire them later when you're done with only 1 game.

No, you assign them to another project. SE is a huge company with no shortage of work to do. It's not like they're going to stop making games after XVi comes out.

[Alhanelem]

Do you guys not have phones?

And funny enough, they ended up doing a PC version. Probably just because of this lol.

[Catmato]

And funny enough, they ended up doing a PC version. Probably just because of this lol.

Yeah but despite being playable on PC, it still has the DNA of mobile trash.

[BobbinT]

Nobody wants a mobile game, they are trash

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"Nobody"?

[Alhanelem]

That's exactly what they are doing though, the reduced budget out of nowhere this year also aligns perfectly with how poorly ff16 is performing in pre-orders and recent interviews. 14 has also been starved of content for the past 1-2 years.

The division didn't hire a ton of new developers to make 16, they used all the same developers that are employed to work on 14 (and they add stuff to 11 when there is time to do so).

Except it's not. There is still an update schedule and when needed staff can bee borrowed to carry out the needed tasks. This would not be any more or less true without FFXVI because A) they'd most likely be working on some other game if it wasn't FF16, and B) these plans are in place regardless of that game's existence or

Seriously man just stop this nonsense. Stop blaming everything but a 20 year old game's lack of popularity for literally everything. Your passion for the game is commendable and respectable; but your incredibly irrational and unjustified attitude towards SE and their legitimate and totally reasonable need to develop new games (Final Fantasy related or not) to stay relevant in 2023 and beyond does not do the game or anything else any favors.