Fujito interview with 4gamer.net (LONG READ)

[leia]

@Spicy Just STFU, and get a life.

The Man is free to express and demand whatever he feel like from SE, it is up to SE to reply to him not you Mr. Knows it all.

[Sirmarki]

and being a customer means nothing.

Well... It kind of does :P

[Sp1cyryan]

@Spicy Just STFU, and get a life.

The Man is free to express and demand whatever he feel like from SE, it is up to SE to reply to him not you Mr. Knows it all.

Meanwhile, here you are.

Well... It kind of does :P

No, it doesn't. All it means is that one pays for a service. It is trivial and without the asserted substance.
The entitled attitude and spoiled mindset of a "consumer". Always loves to assert if they whine about paying an incredibly nominal fee. That they will apply pressure on the profiting entity to make changes they want out of financial interest. That doesn't work here in that capacity. The decisions around this game, it's future, and it's possibilities have been decided. The game will sooner end than suddenly get all the attention spoiled people are demanding. They just don't want to accept that and think way too highly of themselves.

TL;DR,: It's like a parent demanding a principal of a school do what they want with a "I'm on the PTA!" Except even that would carry more weight than a mere "consumer."

[Arciela]

People expect way too much from a 20 year old mmo with 5 developers. Its unrealistic to expect them to do massive expansions the size of seekers of adoulin again. Its not unreasonable to tell people that if there not satisfied anymore then its ok to unsub and not play anymore during maintenance mode. Demanding that they give ff11 millions of dollars and to bring a massive dev team to a game that only has 80k players and is over 20 years old should know it will never happen. Pumping millions of dollars and bringing a massive dev team back for no returns on investment and no guarantee that it will bring players would be a bad business decision.

[RichLester]

I think Fujito needs to give everyone an update on the "State of Play" of the game. A lot of speculation & doubt flying about. If there are no updates to the game over the next 6 months, then they need to tell us to put us at ease.

[Kenaithus]

Wow... many words to say nothing.

Everyone and they mother know what the games needs: A technical upgrade. Ditch Play Online and upgrade the game Engine. You can even make a huge announcement of "Final Fantasy XI - Remastered -" and just that sub bump month will help to reduce many of the investment.

And to anyone saying "it is too complicated", "Too expensive"... they were already doing it. This is the stuff that hurts the most. They were already making this game in Unreal Engine, but the lack of willingness of SE and probably the fact that they didnt know how to monetize it for a phone game bring the project down. But they worked on it, and nobody never said it was because of technical issues.

A real shame, they could easily made something great but choose not to

[RichLester]

The article was many words not saying much but we can read between the lines. Regarding the mobile version, the developers actually said they couldn't continue it due to the technical issues, a couple of months ago. If they were gonna do a complete upgrade, that's what FFXIV v1 was meant to be but FFXIV v2 became so much more than that. That's why the developers are focusing on that, along with other things (FFVII series). There's less developers available to do anything on here now so the "remaster" will never happen. Too much content to convert, too.

Shame we're not getting new areas for us to kill & collect stuff, like Vunkerl Inlet (present) & Grauberg (present)

[Teraniku]

*Snip*

Shame we're not getting new areas for us to kill & collect stuff, like Vunkerl Inlet (present) & Grauberg (present)

Personally, I wanted Olzhirya (Mithra Homeland) and the Orc Continent up North, but oh well....

[Sirmarki]

People expect way too much from a 20 year old mmo with 5 developers. Its unrealistic to expect them to do massive expansions the size of seekers of adoulin again. Its not unreasonable to tell people that if there not satisfied anymore then its ok to unsub and not play anymore during maintenance mode. Demanding that they give ff11 millions of dollars and to bring a massive dev team to a game that only has 80k players and is over 20 years old should know it will never happen. Pumping millions of dollars and bringing a massive dev team back for no returns on investment and no guarantee that it will bring players would be a bad business decision.

Not always the case though. There are games that I paid a one off £1.50 years ago that get regularly updated.

I pay more in FFXI sub than I do my entire housing insurance and that covers everything up to a million UK pounds.

[Arciela]

Not always the case though. There are games that I paid a one off £1.50 years ago that get regularly updated.

I pay more in FFXI sub than I do my entire housing insurance and that covers everything up to a million UK pounds.

I would love for them to keep updating the game and provide expansions but I'm also realistic and realize every game doesn't last forever. I'm grateful the game lasted as long as it did even with the limited budget and resources and them having only 6 developers. At least they decided to invest in new server hardware because the only other option we had was them shutting down the game if they didn't according to the interview. At least we can still enjoy the game for at least 10 more years in maintenance mode with the new server hardware and contracts they signed to provide maintenance for the new servers for 10 more years even if we get no more updates unless they surprise us in a few years and provide some sort of massive content.