Why does Square Enix treat FF11 so poorly?

[Alhanelem]

I imagine /it/ is on every server, connected to the things fighting for capacity points 24/7.

Maybe, but they yell offering to do a lot of other stuff too.

[Dragoy]

Maybe, but they yell offering to do a lot of other stuff too.

Ah, that's probably a different one, then... maybe.

That said, I tend to keep 'yell' filtered, so not sure what all they yell about these days... on all the servers I've seen them on, but yeah.

[BobbinT]

* If you're on Asura. I don't say we don't have bots on Bahamut cause we do but its a day and night difference between Asura and any server.

as Bahamut residence here, every time I'm back for another return home campaigns, always saw shouts for job points/master level pay bots & gil sellers whenever I'm on cities.

[RichLester]

I wonder if the player's survey, which has now just closed, will actually change the game for the better or not. I'm sure we've all given lots of suggestions to future proof the game but will we be listened to? Probably not. If we find what we have suggested is not going to be implemented any time soon, we'll start to think this game is on it's last legs.

[Alhanelem]

They don't do these surveys with regularity, which does kind of suggest that they are at a turning point where they're looking at what to do with the game. I'd keep expectations low but the one thing we do know is with XI being treated as a mainline game, they clearly don't want to make it inaccessible, so they are looking at how best to keep it going (but without spending a ton of money most likely)

[RichLester]

I agree, it is very unusual for them to do the survey like this & I suggested tweaks like Sortie Campaign, option under status to switch exp points to capacity or exemplar pts, not just merit points (which doesn't work anymore), etc. That kinda thing but we have yet to hear what they are planning to do with all the results. Nothing major will happen. Let's just hope they do something good & useful.

[Chharith]

SE is not obligated to increase funding for FFXI, you will know when SE decides to add serious support to FFXI when you see SE shutting down private servers, that's when you know XI is going to be big again. For now SE can see that players are getting their fix from private servers, so there is no reason to increase support for a player base that does not want to pay for the increased support.

I don't think players younger than the game are interested in playing XI, it's only a matter of time until the current player base gets too old and cannot play anymore, and then XI will certainly shutdown and only appear as an event in other SE games.

maybe we can start a GO-fundMe and buy XI from SE as a community, but that would just be a very expensive private server lol.

would we be happy if XI shutdown and turned into a TV series? or a trilogy of movies per expansion? a mobile port would just have microtransactions (like ever-crisis).

and if SE remade XI would we be happy about it playing like XIV? just button mashing, what if XI was remade but in VR?

If I had the money to buy XI and keep it alive forever I would.

[Zenion]

and if SE remade XI would we be happy about it playing like XIV? just button mashing, what if XI was remade but in VR?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I know that if I wanted to play a game that handled like Final Fantasy XIV, I'd, you know, go play Final Fantasy XIV. If a Final Fantasy XI remake just took the Final Fantasy XI setting and dropped it into Final Fantasy XIV without preserving any of how the game currently plays, I'd play it exactly long enough to realize it was a bait-and-switch. If I wanted to just hammer on buttons while dodging big "don't stand here" markers on the ground, I'd probably just play Hades or something.

[Alhanelem]

Well there are a lot of ways they could modernize the game without it feeling like a completely different one. Simply-

Regional servers for better network performance (along with modernized netcode that can handle larger amounts of data), which would make the game more responsive, even if nothing else changed
further reduction/elimination of animation locks that give a feeling of clunkiness
Modernized UI that's easier to navigate (especially for gamepad users)
A rewrite of core code from the PS2 era that would further free the game from technical limitations that would make it easier and less costly to develop new features/content.
A minimap instead of the nearly useless and incredibly tiny radar we have (which was designed for like 640x480 resolution)

[Daniolaut]

I deeply enjoy Final Fantasy XI, but I utterly despise Square-Enix.

I am at a point, that I do not even want to subscribe to a game I love (FFXI) just to spite a company that disrespects its fans and series....