More options means more fun means more players.

[Vesperia]

Adding stuff isn't necessary. I've played games without stuff and they were just fine so no reason to add stuff. Wouldnt bring much to the game. This isn't WoW.

[Kam]

Same person.

Was it that obvious?

Yes <3

/10char

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Ignorant post is ignorant

FFXI has long since payed off its development costs and has been a source of revenue for years, merging servers doesn't mean its losing them money....... it means that they are not making as much money, but the cost of keeping servers and minor content expansions are WAY below what they take in on subscriptions. They couldn't shut down ffxi right now because its still a source of profits, so please go read the recent financial statements and ACTUALLY read where the losses came from. The majority of the losses last year were from xiv and canceled titles that were in later development stages.

They were 2 seperate comments. ffxi is a party based game less players means longer wait times, means less fun. Also SE is losing money ingeneral. And ffxi isn't making them much money. If ffxi had a WoW size player base they would be making more money then losing.

[zaviermhigo]

How do you lose 12billion yen on a game that probably only cost like a million yen to make?

12 bn yen loss on FFXIV being active and haing servers plus they canceled many of their titles equaled I believe 6% of their losses or so, so not most, but a huge chunk was xiv and canceled titles. When you think about game development, thats fine, but when you think about up keeping the mmo, that cost a lot. I would guess that a lot of it was the cancelled titles, the financial statement is up on ffxiv.zam.com and here is an interview with the Yoichi Wada which explains "what went wrong" http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/201...ada_on_losses/

edit: losses might be 16, i can't remember exactly which is why I linked the stuff for you guys, advanced financial statement can be found on the square enix website for investors and what not, for those who are buffs of that stuff. http://www.square-enix.com/eng/ir/

[Kam]

The point of this thread is asking SE to do more "why nots" over "why"

NO ONE should have to point that out for you kilta. ^^

We're waiting to see if you can "get there" on your own.

[Dragon]

Okay, let's add jump. I want the option to turn jumping animations off.

I'd also like to see an option so that when I put someone on my ignore list, they won't even appear on my screen nor be able to send any data my way. I don't want my network's elite bandwidth wasted by someone I've ignored.

[SuzakuCMX]

WOW
this isn't ad ADD STUFF topic but asking SE to look at the ADD STUFF topivcs with a more open mind. That is what this topic is about. I listed suggestion based on other poist as examples of stuff to look at with an open mind.

The point of this thread is asking SE to do more "why nots" over "why"

This isn't a useless thread. And kam you was never opn topic. Since all you did was berate me over "making a useless thread based on what ppl already suggested"

Sorry if my thread wasn't very clear. But a simple asking for understanding will serve everyone better then ASSUMING, its just another "add stuff" thread.

So simply put
1 no this isn;t a add stuff topic
2 this topic is a SE look at everyone suggestion over again and ask youself "how many people will play if this gets added" topic

Um ok. So yeah it's about ... other people's topics.

...still no room for discussion in here.

[Kam]

Good job guys. Logic was too strong for it this time.

[Dragon]

Like I said, you can have your jumps... give ME the ability to turn jumping animations off and be able to remove you from my screen and bandwidth completely. How can that be so bad?

[Teknoman]

Like I said, you can have your jumps... give ME the ability to turn jumping animations off and be able to remove you from my screen and bandwidth completely. How can that be so bad?

like that would ever happen.

Amen. This is why I hope they reconsider their plans to take freedom out of the Armoury system.

They arent taking freedom out. You dont have to use a job if you dont want to. You'll still be able to mix the basic class skills together, just not if you choose to pursue a job. And they are still going to balance the class skills prior to job implementation, as well as continue said balancing afterwards.