How do you feel about the FFXI News?

[Gramul]

Disappointing to say the least.

[Vaer]

RIP, at least they gave advance notice and didn't decide to just bury it suddenly. Some servers have been relatively empty for some time.

What reason is there to d/c PS2 and Xbox support at this point if they are announcing the final expansion?

Don't need to support those consoles anymore (testing/bugs) once they maintenance mode the game (they said they are still going to have minor patches) and possibly dropping the need to pay fees to Microsoft since it goes through XBL on 360.

[Lexia]

I wanted to play FFXI, but after getting to the valkrum dunes and spending 2 weeks waiting on party invites, I unsubbed and never went back. Didn't have a group of friends playing to group up with and never found one when I did play.

2 weeks? I remember waiting hours sometimes even almost entire day for invite but weeks? And this was as drgs that no one wanted. Although rdm were insta-vites. What job were you playing?

[Hayward]

So the burial process begins after so many years. I'd feel sad about it but after so many years of obstinacy and catering to exclusivists, it was inevitable. I'll continue to believe Abyssea pointed the way SE needed to go as far as content was concerned and the developers completely missed the chance to improve upon the goodwill that came from that series.

[Lexia]

XI was very player dependent and it was nice that they eased up on it but I think they went too far with it.

[Shadowkept]

I think there is a lot of misinformation/confusion floating around about the FFXI Mobile version and the FFXI spinoff Grandmasters.

Nobody has seen the mobile version being developed by Nexon but from the slides shown at the SE press conference it looks like it will be a very close port, with new UI, touch driven interface, and maybe some new solo/asynchronous gameplay. SE called it a Full-Fledged Final Fantasy XI Experience on the mobile platform. Think tablets not smartphones, and expect a different monetization, because I've yet to see a sub based mobile MMO.

Grandmasters was shown extensively as it's much further along in development (starts beta next month). It is for the smartphone and is a very different game though set in the same universe so has consistency with races/classes/mobs.

Read from the source please, many gaming have botched the info, though this article is pretty accurate.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ference-Digest

[Theonekitten]

What reason is there to d/c PS2 and Xbox support at this point if they are announcing the final expansion?

I'm hoping this means there will be a graphic upgrade for Vanadiel since it will be solely pc. This would be so epic!! The zones were beautiful with their current graphics, can you imagine how they would look with a graphic engine upgrade?? *fingers crossed* FFXI-0!

[Anapingofness]

Dem feels...

FFXI was my first mmo!
But, I left for a reason and I'd rather have mostly good memories of FFXI than bad.
If they addressed the reasons why I left, I'd go back and finish up the storylines I wasn't able to during the time I played.
Haha, turning it into a single player game would be fun too, although I'm not so sure how they would do that.

[DragonFlyy]

Old school FFXI was the best. The abyssea came and... well, it's not the same.

This is the truth :P

I still feel that Everquest was more difficult than FFXI (this is at the time FFXI was released. EQ has been nerfed hard since then.)

[Nikita]

Nexon. Barf.