FFXI to shutdown in 2024

[Alhanelem]

FF16 is not decided by skill, strength or luck. It essentially plays itself. I consider it a movie. not a video game.

A movie is non-interactive. A video game has interactive elements. How much skill or luck is required is irrelevant. Many video games are purely games of chance while others have the strategy depth of chess. They are all still games.

Do you press buttons and things happen? Then it's a video game. If you want to argue that it's in the visual novel genre, with very little user input, that's fine, but those are still technically games.

[Monsuta_Man]

If XI were not profitable enough, it would be shutdown.

MMO is a shrewd business. Companies do not keep games up and running because they like us, but because they like their investors and profits.

The only reason XI declined, was due to them pushing players away from XI to XIV imo. If you announce your MMO is going into maintenance mode, ppl are going to leave lol......

"No more major updates"

Love the honesty, but no P2P MMO should EVER go into maintenance mode until there is no more maintenance to be maintained......

Shutdown.

XI needs another expansion, and more content which would sent the msg "XI is alive and kicking." I can guarantee you, XI expansion content would cost less than past failures (XIV, Avengers, First Soldier, etc), but XI won't cost you millions like those did......

[Alhanelem]

This game makes enough money from the RMT botters alone.

[BobbinT]

The only reason XI declined, was due to them pushing players away from XI to XIV imo.

In case u didn't know, FF14 quite recently had this special 50% subs discount for FF11 just this February, which I did took & resub since last time I did around early SoA due to FF14 2.0 started & mostly returning through return home campaigns to finish stories all the way to TVR. The response overall, while sorta mixed, it's been mostly positive, and I personally enjoyed very much.

Again as a reminder, while this being an MMORPG, this is also part of mainline series as well, not something they can easily killed off like non mainline stuff. There's bigger consideration compared to non mainline titles, especially with this having very deep lore of its own.