How long do we have left?

[Sama]

I would guess 1-2 years max if they keep going with Aby like this.

[Saylor]

As of April of 2009 FFXI had over 2 million subscribers.

Hate to nitpick but its not subscribers, its characters.

Still though with the catastrophic failure that FFXIV was I believe alot of people have come back that quit forever. God knows I keep getting bugged from people coming back who gave me all there stuff thinking they would never be back.

[Dreimar]

I'd say we got till 2012 or a few months into 2012. Right now were living off updates, the thrill of being level 99, new magics and abilities, a new possible merit category. But that wont satisfy us for long which is why they always drag out these changes over a year's time to keep us interested in playing. What will we do after it's all finished and the dust settles? Wotg was the last expansion, abyssea won't be challenging at level 99, they are revising old content to be easier. The game will die only when the player loses interest, and we have no interest beyond the current planned updates.

A new expansion to test our might would keep our interest. Just adding new jobs would have everyone massing with eagerness more so than being level 99.

We were "restricted" to lv75 for years so what ?
SE declared they wont ever rise the lv cap over lv75, many years ago .. wonder why they changed theyr plans :P
This game already had total DeV team changes ( 3 or 4 maybe, cant remember )
In the yeah 2015 were gonna say all this things again :P

[Autymn]

What's one sure way to have people lose interest in something?

Give them everything they want.

I've often joked that SE is making everything easier on the players so that we'll finish all our goals and stop playing. It's like they are intentionally sabotaging their own game. I don't REALLY think this, but it is a thought to mull over.

[Swords]

Hate to nitpick but its not subscribers, its characters.

Still though with the catastrophic failure that FFXIV was I believe alot of people have come back that quit forever. God knows I keep getting bugged from people coming back who gave me all there stuff thinking they would never be back.

Blizzard uses the same methods for counting WoW subscribers, they use it as a draw to attract people with the thought "Hey alot of people play this, it must be a good game". Now how many of those 6 million players thay have stickerd on the box are actually mules. If I had to give an honest guess, at least 3/4 of their claimed playerbase.

To address the concerns over the server merges, I would not doubt that SE merged the servers in order to cut maintence costs and with periodic upgrades the servers were probably improved to where they could handle a greater capacity of players.

As far as FFXI being on it's last legs people have been saying that since ToAU had finished. Four years, one expansion and six mini-expansions later FFXI is still here, still has at least another few years of planned content left in it.

[remy5623]

Wow, this thread is fascinating. Nine years later and the game is still getting updates. I think even now Final Fantasy XI has many years left.

[Immortal]

What's funny is that every year along the way you have these threads popping up and the usual pessimists saying the game will die in a year.

[Catmato]

OMG ffxi is dieing!!

[Pixela]

This thread was made in 2011, person above bumped it from 9 years ago.

[BST]

Shall visit again, in ten years time, this very thread.