Geomancer

[KoujiGeki]

i guess SE decided to keep FFXI, i remember way back before WOTG came out they said it was gonna be the last expansion.

??? job = mystic im thinking

Because they were banking on XIV to succeed lol.

i dont know something tells me that they doing it cause on the chance that 14 tanks from 2.0, they gonna wanna bring more life back to 11 which still makes them money.

[CamAlch]

i dont know something tells me that they doing it cause on the chance that 14 tanks from 2.0, they gonna wanna bring more life back to 11 which still makes them money.

Well it's not that they are worried about XIV tanking with 2.0. There is very little chance of that, and I think they know this.

It is simply that all of the money they invested into developing XIV version 1.0 was pretty much a complete waste. They are now having to re-develop this game almost entirely, for which the cost would be huge. Taking that into consideration they aren't really making money off XIV at this point.

XI is their money maker, so naturally they are going to want to keep it going longer now, since the money they are taking in from XIV subscriptions at this point would be basically just funding the development of 2.0.

All in all, I think it's great though. It makes sense for them to do this from a business standpoint, and also it is great to see them revitalize XI for all of the fans still playing, and even for new MMO players looking for somewhere to go.