Will you return to Final Fantasy XI?

[UserEric827]

I have played Final Fantasy XI since the PS2 release, and I enjoyed it. I quit back in 2009 once I heard about Final Fantasy XIV. Although I enjoy playing FFXIV and the people with whom I play, I was wondering what would you guys do if FFXIV was unable advance for most of the players who have high expectations. Would you return to FFXI?

[Xatsh]

XI is a dying game as well atm.

Unless SE fixed everything they screwed up with abysea... there is simply no reason to go back.

[Anty]

XI is a dying game as well atm.

Unless SE fixed everything they screwed up with abysea... there is simply no reason to go back.

sad but true.

[Neptune]

XI is a dying game as well atm.

Unless SE fixed everything they screwed up with abysea... there is simply no reason to go back.

What did they screw up with Abyssea? My interpretation of Abyssea is that it's making a dead game playable, for long after its death.

[Xatsh]

What did they screw up with Abyssea? My interpretation of Abyssea is that it's making a dead game playable, for long after its death.

Reasons why abysea killed the game.

1) FFXI completely lacks content atm: Atm outside abysea, and void nms things there is simply nothing worth doing. (Issue: around 20,000hrs of content in the game has been negated)
2) No sense of reward for anything, FFXI just gives you the best crap without putting in any work for it.
3) Way to Fking easy... you think WoW was easy to level up and at endgame... you need to play FFXI now. 1-90 in less then 48hrs, best gear in the game in less then a month. Everything that drops something worthwhile can be duoed...
4) Removed the need for a linkshell, atm the best way to advance is small group. This was the opposite of what FFXI's endgame was all about.
5) Negated everyones work from pre-abysea. Spent 3yrs getting a relic, top endgame gera... too bad a weapon that can be gotten in a duo/trio and armor you can solo in about 2 weeks now completely outclasses it in every single way.


FFXI's population before abysea was around 400k... 6 months after abysea around 190k. I think that very well speaks for itself. SE tried to make it better for the casuals and in turn destroyed the very thing that was holding the population on the game together for years and years.


Atm FFXI is beyond repair, they would have to roll the servers back to last June to get alot of the players back... but then all the current players will quit for having a years progress removed.... All in all they screwed themselves with XI, they designed it so it would die out for FFXIV.... well they better hope they pull XIV around or both their FF mmos are going to die out.

[Victor]

Reasons why abysea killed the game.

1) FFXI completely lacks content atm: Atm outside abysea, and void nms things there is simply nothing worth doing. (Issue: around 20,000hrs of content in the game has been negated)
2) No sense of reward for anything, FFXI just gives you the best crap without putting in any work for it.
3) Way to Fking easy... you think WoW was easy to level up and at endgame... you need to play FFXI now. 1-90 in less then 48hrs, best gear in the game in less then a month. Everything that drops something worthwhile can be duoed...
4) Removed the need for a linkshell, atm the best way to advance is small group. This was the opposite of what FFXI's endgame was all about.
5) Negated everyones work from pre-abysea. Spent 3yrs getting a relic, top endgame gera... too bad a weapon that can be gotten in a duo/trio and armor you can solo in about 2 weeks now completely outclasses it in every single way.


FFXI's population before abysea was around 400k... 6 months after abysea around 190k. I think that very well speaks for itself. SE tried to make it better for the casuals and in turn destroyed the very thing that was holding the population on the game together for years and years.

I'm not doubting you, but I'm curious as to how you can be sure the population dropped from 400k to 190k?

[TheRac25]

even if that number wasnt just pulled out of your ass you cant blame abyssea completely
there was something called ffxiv and oh a little thing called a server shutdown

[kaboro]

What did they screw up with Abyssea? My interpretation of Abyssea is that it's making a dead game playable, for long after its death.

They made the game playable for more casual players, unforgivable. We all know mmos should be only playable in full and perfectly organized groups of pro players, for all the rest it should be unplayable. I mean why did they allow casual players to be able to achieve something in game? SACRILEGE!!! I ragequit right there ....*sarcasm off

[Seikninkuru]

not unless i was paid a gruesome sum. That game sucked donkey dik.

[Jennestia]

not unless i was paid a gruesome sum. That game sucked donkey dik.

Sucking donkey "dik" must be a lucrative business to generate billions upon billions of yen in the span of 4 years