Just played Final Fantasy XI

[Delily]

FFXIAH.com is showing active characters around 80k, with a hair under 3M characters total. Not sure how they determine active status, but there's another number for you.

https://www.ffxiah.com/database

Thanks, I can't find it, but I know the admin for FFXIAH, Rooks, has commented on those numbers before. I'll concede and say it's more than 20,000, but it's also less than 80,000, so my point still holds, which is it's not worth SE's time and money to create a vanilla server.

[Skivvy]

Thanks, I can't find it, but I know the admin for FFXIAH, Rooks, has commented on those numbers before. I'll concede and say it's more than 20,000, but it's also less than 80,000, so my point still holds, which is it's not worth SE's time and money to create a vanilla server.

Yeah, I can't imagine they'd go back and make a vanilla server at this point. They still keep up nicely with updates / little patches and what not, but I can't see them doing too much more. There are private servers for that.

[Delily]

Yet here we are on this forum with hundreds of people not all that happy with the game/dev team, and having it contain of thread about about XI. A game that has adapted pretty well with the times, unfortunately no large population to match. Probably doing better than it did during its prime when all those nice things it currently has, did not exist. Abyssea is just a memory there, old dead content not even used for leveling anymore.

Side note: SE made me a sad panda when they nerfed campaign into the ground, before all that, I swear it was the greatest thing they ever added to that game lol.

So go play FFXI? Square is more than happy to have 2 good MMOs running.

[Seig345]

Yeah, I can't imagine they'd go back and make a vanilla server at this point. They still keep up nicely with updates / little patches and what not, but I can't see them doing too much more. There are private servers for that.

They also supposedly still have that outsourced mobile remake in the works as another reason not to bother.

[Spiriel_Basanda]

Did they ever add appearance changes into the game or is that still not a thing?

If you mean something like FFXIV's glam system, they do have a really good version of it. If you mean a race change/hairstyle change, then no. No they have not.