Will the next extension be the last one ?

[Lustre]

No, but I cant see this game lasting beyond whatever the next story arc is. I expect the final expansion of the next arc will be the "last" piece of focused content for the game and anything that comes after will be done on a skeleton crew, once in a blue moon. I take some of these predictions based on what happened with FF11. So yeah, two or three expansions before this game starts entering maintenence mode in my opinion. We can see them making adjustments for this now (focus on single player/trust/story content, futureproofing for when player counts drop.) Itll never be offline, but it will probably be in suspended animation like ff11 is.

[Jeeqbit]

I expect the final expansion of the next arc will be the "last" piece of focused content for the game and anything that comes after will be done on a skeleton crew, once in a blue moon.

That will happen if the active population is lower than what it was in Heavensward, which doesn't look like will happen any time soon because we are many times that. SE might make another MMO, but I expect only if they can't upgrade this one.

The problem with FF11 is that it wasn't deemed salvageable as early as 2005, so they started making a new one. This one is designed with the future in mind so they can upgrade it. We have already had ARR texture up-scaling with the flight changes, UI up-scaling for the release of PS5, mount speed increases and noticeable increases in resolution and environment detail since Stormblood. It's normal for dungeons to have npcs in the background now. We have a graphics overhaul on the way and we have been told that the bone detail can be increased over time.

These sort of changes didn't seem to happen in FF11 and they didn't seem able to keep up with their competitors because of the way they designed it (for controllers). If you play it now, it suffers from a lot of the same problems as 1.0.

[Canadane]

No, but I cant see this game lasting beyond whatever the next story arc is. I expect the final expansion of the next arc will be the "last" piece of focused content for the game and anything that comes after will be done on a skeleton crew, once in a blue moon. I take some of these predictions based on what happened with FF11. So yeah, two or three expansions before this game starts entering maintenence mode in my opinion. We can see them making adjustments for this now (focus on single player/trust/story content, futureproofing for when player counts drop.) Itll never be offline, but it will probably be in suspended animation like ff11 is.

11 still gets updates.
It isn't as dead as people think.

[Striker44]

No, but I cant see this game lasting beyond whatever the next story arc is. I expect the final expansion of the next arc will be the "last" piece of focused content for the game and anything that comes after will be done on a skeleton crew, once in a blue moon. I take some of these predictions based on what happened with FF11. So yeah, two or three expansions before this game starts entering maintenence mode in my opinion. We can see them making adjustments for this now (focus on single player/trust/story content, futureproofing for when player counts drop.) Itll never be offline, but it will probably be in suspended animation like ff11 is.

Well, the first story arc occurred over 5 expansions. Why would the second one only be 2 or 3?