Development Team Downsizing and Justification Makes no Sense

[Alhanelem]

The easiest way to do something on a different platform is to make a wrapper that takes the driver/hardware calls made by the original software (in this case, for the PS2's graphics subsystem) and output equivalent calls for the graphics system on the other platform, which I'm pretty sure is basically what they do for the windows version of FFXI. The well known artifacts like the windows in the mog house among other things are caused when they fail to achieve equivalency with the other platform's graphics system (in this case, DirectX).

I think this ship has sailed like a decade ago but I kinda like the game as it is, but then I grew up with the game so I'm having both a bias and rose-tinted glasses.

I agree, I feel the same way.

[Immortal]

Not everything has to end, there are franchises and games still going for the same amount of time and still getting content. Its a steady revenue for them and is pure profit practically, I don't see any reason for it to end. People are still willing to pay them 100+ a month to multi box and have wardrobes etc. They are sitting ontop of a pile of cash here with the returns they could get if they did things like race change service or other features that XIV even has. They constantly revamp and remaster dinky games like FF1~6 yet can't be bothered to bring XI to modern audiences with a touch up or big expansion, shameful really.

[Alhanelem]

Not everything has to end, there are franchises and games still going...

FFXI is not ending, nor are content updates stopping entirely. They're just not willing to spend as much on its upkeep.

[Pixela]

FF14 started as a sub standard mmo, then got a bit better and then quickly turned into a literal second life knockoff. It was over when they saw how much those kinds of players spend on outfits. The main endgame is standing in limsa or dancing in stupid nightclubs in peoples mog hosue basements with massive donkey kongs modded on.

If they lose most ff11 players because we become disheartened, we won't be going there.

[Tarmarkvar]

I love the arrogance of people like Pixela who think they can somehow intuit the complexities of a major corporation's revenue streams based solely on "I like this one product, and a bunch of other people also like this product".

[Sp1cyryan]

I love the arrogance of people like Pixela who think they can somehow intuit the complexities of a major corporation's revenue streams based solely on "I like this one product, and a bunch of other people also like this product".

But I pay $12.95, and feel I should pay even less since I am not getting as much as I feel I should. So an entire company should move to fulfill my personal desires because they are so terrible and XI is so good because I feels.

[Pixela]

If I'm paying for updates and they stop those updates I have every right to be mad (especially if they announce it in a stupid manner like, "careers") , not only because of my personal opinion but because I know people are going to start quitting because of it and it puts the entire project at risk. I would of been happier if they said nothing and just did it than what they did.

If I see a company making flop after flop and losing hundreds of millions of dollars I may suggest that maybe you would value a product you made 20 years ago that people want to pay to play still.

[Tarmarkvar]

If I'm paying for updates and they stop those updates I have every right to be mad (especially if they announce it in a stupid manner like, "careers") , not only because of my personal opinion but because I know people are going to start quitting because of it and it puts the entire project at risk. I would of been happier if they said nothing and just did it than what they did.

You are not paying for updates. You were never paying for updates. Stop using that idiotic strawman. You are paying for use of an online service.

People have been quitting this game for 20 years. The management at Square Enix is perfectly aware of this fact. I quit for 3 years at one point from August 2017 to about the time in 2020 when Voracious Resurgence was announced. Somehow the game survived without me.

[Alhanelem]

If I'm paying for updates and they stop those updates I have every right to be mad (especially if they announce it in a stupid manner like, "careers") , not only because of my personal opinion but because I know people are going to start quitting because of it and it puts the entire project at risk. I would of been happier if they said nothing and just did it than what they did.

If I see a company making flop after flop and losing hundreds of millions of dollars I may suggest that maybe you would value a product you made 20 years ago that people want to pay to play still.

If I see a company and I feel about it the way that you seem to, I would stop being their customer and move on to something else. But you're still here.

[Pixela]

But you're still here.

I'm here till my sub runs out, I paid for this forum account I'm using it.