is this game near the end of it's life?

[Chayala]

This game isn't going to end it's life anytime soon. Even if they start taking a loss SE already has too much of an image of this game to do so. Not to mention they leeched so much money off FFXI just to reboot this damned thing especially with their lackluster sales on... Everything else (Hey hallway simulator. I mean FFVII female cloud edition... I mean FFXIII.) Before it ends it's going to turn into a f2p game that is still full of generic NPC's that nobody cares about, with main characters nobody really remembers because they took the short cut of "Let's just copy as much of WoW as possible and make it an even MORE casual game, but then put in end game content with no ramping up of difficulty because that's good game design!"...

That's not even touching up on the whole me identifying with the Dark Knight quest line because there were times when I'd look at the screen and be like "These people aren't that stupid. They're not going to do this. That dragoon isn't going to pick up a second eye when he's bathed in blood and was already... Nevermind. He picked it up. Now he's possessed. Good job."

If only I could choose to unleash her whenever I think the rest of the cast are being entirely too stupid. Goblins walk out. Start yapping. Sword + skull = No more problems. They are clearly a threat and talk about mass genocide. WHY ARE WE LETTING THEM WALK AWAY?

So no. not at the end of it's life but it's not gonna have half the run time of XI. Because for it's flaws, FFXI still had more character in it's story telling, without the "You're a warrior of light!" it was "You're an adventurer" and you eventually became a reliable adventurer and you rose to the task rather than using a crutch. The Enemies weren't all so generically evil either. Ramuh and Shiva are the only non EVIL CAUSE WE ARE EVIL villains we've faced. And one is a crazy old man and the other was an unstable woman who turned herself into a primal. TBH I was glad when the scions "died" and I was hoping not one of them survived and we could move on from stupid crap like that 2 minute sagahin event where you just saw them cutting them down in one shot while we, the player stood there with vapid expressions watching.

And SE hasn't done any innovation in years. So hoping that will happen is hoping that Capcom will put out a proper megaman game or a breath of fire game that isn't a stupid mobile game that was renamed breath of fire just because they knew it sucked enough that it wouldn't sell without it (Hey didn't square do something like that with a similiar stupid mobile game where it just had you using disposable warriors of light? Oh...)

[starLivitation]

I decided maybe i do the relic quest anyway. maybe just take it slow and see what happens. i still have hope for this game, it seems with the recent news, there is some general feed back oh how to fix the game, let us hope they do a good job in 3.2, because that may be our last hope i think.

[ScarletDawn]

I decided maybe i do the relic quest anyway. maybe just take it slow and see what happens. i still have hope for this game, it seems with the recent news, there is some general feed back oh how to fix the game, let us hope they do a good job in 3.2, because that may be our last hope i think.

Just do up to the awoken stage for all the classes you want and wait for 3.2 to see the new weps that will come out and replace the relics.

[starLivitation]

Just do up to the awoken stage for all the classes you want and wait for 3.2 to see the new weps that will come out and replace the relics.

I don't know, the zodiac stage i125 was pretty usefull as most of us could not meet t12 dps check, it helps us when some of the dps got that weapon to push 4 bennus

[JarinArenos]

I'm done. I've called out problems and fought my fights. I think half the devs never came back from the great content gap in the first half of the year. Nothing interesting or new to do... I had hopes for the relic quest, but the implementation of that really is the last straw for me. Sub is canceled, just running out my time now. What little fun is left to me in this game, I could find in any number of F2P games on the market. Nothing left here to justify paying.

[RHarris1349]

According to these forums, FFXIV has been dead since they released 2.0 two years ago. I sure hope Yoshi-P stops listening to the forums, tbh. It seems the people who are ENJOYING this awesome MMO are too busy playing to be bothered with the disgruntled ingnorance on this forum that works on the fallacy that this FF is supposed to be w/e machination that you people dreamt up one day. I'm sure you're well-versed in other lesser MMOs and have awards lining those walls in your head, you're effing awesome, we get it. But yall crying saying, "It's dead! It's dead! It's dead!" Every. Single. Time content comes out is ridiculous. It's content, just cause your salty doesn't mean there's not thousands of others enjoying Eorzea.

[RHarris1349]

Just because the game does not meet your personal expectations on a .05 patch does not mean its going to die. You're not a special snowflake.

This, a million times this.

[LaylaTsarra]

The game isn't dying anytime soon, would be nice if this thread did.

[Felmyst]

I'm cool with that. I'd be happy to see less people around. Means more community teamwork and more friendly people!

[LadyAveria]

Honestly it is looking more and more dead to me and the reason is rather silly but people buy a whole console just to play a single exclusive so I don't think it is silly >.> Lightning will always be my favourite character and knowing the items exist but I can't get them kinda annoys me to the point of I rather play Final Fantasy XIII lol I mean it wouldn't be that difficult to whack the items in the mogstation...anyway! Now that I have said that I don't think it is silly ^+^ Like I mentioned people spend lots of money on a console just for a single exclusive