Development Team Downsizing and Justification Makes no Sense

[Voidstorm]

I see it from a company perspective as a flagship title game. They will need to spend money on it regardless of how they go about it.
Either they rebuild it as a solo RPG game that doesn't need servers so the title isn't simply lost to time, or they rebuild it so server costs will be negligible while keeping it a MMO.


This isn't a spinoff game or new standalone title that they could just get away with closing down servers and just #dead_game. That would break continuity of FFs 1~15 all still being available for play.
They have to choose how they keep this game around, not if they'll keep it around.

[Sirmarki]

I see it from a company perspective as a flagship title game. They will need to spend money on it regardless of how they go about it.
Either they rebuild it as a solo RPG game that doesn't need servers so the title isn't simply lost to time, or they rebuild it so server costs will be negligible while keeping it a MMO.

Of course, I'm not going to pretend like I know the ins and outs of it, but my understanding is that FFXI transfers very little data (I think it was designed for 56k connection, and remains that way) so the bandwidth/server cost should be relatively cheap (?).
Like I say, I'm speculating. I pay £79 per year for a server with unlimited transfer at high speeds/bandwidth in the UK.

As I said before, I just don't want it to be remembered as the game that got infested with bots.

[Zehira]

As I said before, I just don't want it to be remembered as the game that got infested with bots.

Unfortunately, this what will be. SE allowed bots to happen since 2017-2018. They wanted us to move to XIV.

[Sirmarki]

Given the absolute nonsense that has been posted on these forums over the last week, I think SE should just close these forums down.

[Sp1cyryan]

Given the absolute nonsense that has been posted on these forums over the last week, I think SE should just close these forums down.

Oh, even better. Just close down all the English forums here.

[Rinuko]

Given the absolute nonsense that has been posted on these forums over the last week, I think SE should just close these forums down.

I'm surprised they haven't years ago.

https://github.com/ps2dev/ps2dev

This is funny, you think a company would use something like this? I'm sure Sony would approve it.

[Voidstorm]

Of course, I'm not going to pretend like I know the ins and outs of it, but my understanding is that FFXI transfers very little data (I think it was designed for 56k connection, and remains that way) so the bandwidth/server cost should be relatively cheap (?).
Like I say, I'm speculating. I pay £79 per year for a server with unlimited transfer at high speeds/bandwidth in the UK.

As I said before, I just don't want it to be remembered as the game that got infested with bots.

You aren't wrong about that. I simply don't know if the servers can use modern hardware, if they can be emulated on modern hardware, or if they require legacy hardware. the 3rd of which would be an issue.