When I think of FF14's visual and audio direction it doesn't make me think I'd like to see them try to remake FF11. FF11's visual style and ambient, subdued approach to the audio side of things are some of its biggest strengths, whereas FF14 is a cluttered mess with no real artistic style (imagine if that game looked like its promotional art, I might still be playing it!) and obnoxious, in-your-face background music with nothing "background" about it. I don't think I want to see SE making a new MMO either given their recent offerings.

I think them working on refining the software/hardware for the game in its current state is great, and I hope it results in the game surviving for a long time to come. It's probably too much to hope for but part of me also hopes one day one of these backend improvements will contribute to solving the botting problem, though I don't know how much of the current state of bots going unbanned is actually "can't" versus "won't, because they give us money." Then again it seems like in general SE has a pretty low level of respect for their older games unless they can make a quick buck off re-releasing them with ugly, tasteless graphical "enhancements" and phone UI for the nth time. Part of me would also like to believe that if XI managed to attract new players and more $$$ that SE would reinvest into it but... look at FF14: even with how much money that game made/makes them it should be clear to anybody looking at the game even slightly critically that barely a fraction of that income goes back into the game's development.

This company really bugs me. It's like they always have to chase the newest shiniest thing while consistently under-delivering and failing to pay attention to where their real success have come from.