Geomancer

[Airget]

I'm excited for this new expansion, and will probably reactivate my FF11 content ID a few months prior to its release.

No matter what you personally think about FF11, the game is most likely a huge cash cow for SE. According to SE themselves, the game reached a peak of 2 million active characters last year. I think it is fair to assume that the average amount of characters per player is less than 5, which means the game "probably" has around 300k subscribers. That's a total income of ~50 million dollars a year from FF11. Now I'm not a game developed, but I doubt FF11 costs even close to 50 million dollars a year in server maintenance and developer salaries.

Because of that, I think it is a smart move to try to keep the game alive, and it seems like SE is of the same opinion.

But what this post really makes me think about is how obscenely much money Blizzard must be making off of WoW...

Ya, I just hope that SE learns from their methods of releasing said content from the expansion pack. I definitely don't want to see a repeat of WOTG in which they stretch out the expansion for years just to force people to keep paying so that they can see the ending of the story. I hope they'll roll out all the content in a year story wise so you aren't left waiting 2-5yrs to see what the ending of the story is.

[PartyTime]

That was a really unimpressive trailer lol... Why would they even show it if they had so little to actually show. 1 new city and a couple reskinned zones? They didn't even show any actual new job stuff lol...

Judging by how little of anything that trailer showed I'd imagine that expansion is still in very very early development.

[Phen]

Im looking forward to it, however combat will still be terrible unless you're war sam whm blm (and maybe the new jobs till nerfs hit). And yah a storyline every 2-3 years will kill it for me.


Oh also its not like you have to marry a game, play one for a month or two harder than the other then switch back.

[Vivisette]

As a former XI player i can't say this has me too interested. While new expansions are always exciting, IMO Treasures of Aht Urghan was the last GOOD expansion. Wings of The Goddess was a Boxed expansion with Campaign on it. That was it for like 6 months, even then it took over a year to get the story out. The 3 mini expansions played out more like fanfictions rather than canon story arcs. Abyssea had potential that completely eliminated some of the base gameplay that made FFXI great (i.e parties). What really killed the experience for me, was that with so many story hooks left by ToAU and WOTG about the expanded world (The Far East, The Western continent, the Mithran Homeland) We got 4 expansions in a row that had NOTHING to do with any of that.

I think that adding Geomancer is cool, but it won't be the same because no one is going to learn the ins and outs of the job like in the old days. People are gonna plop a Geomancer in Abyssea and power level it to 99. 2 Weeks will be spent on data mining before the "accepted" way to play it will be posted up, and it'll probably being the new loldrg/lolpup.

Sorry to rant. Some my best gaming experiences ever were on XI. It's why I'm a XIV player now. But the time to let it go has been well past due. I'm looking forward to 2.0, and the possible new jobs, races, areas and experiences it's about to bring.

P.S: Geomancer WOULD make since in XIV due to the positional battle system. But I'd take XI's Dancer over Geomancer any day. Also, Aren't we supposed to be getting Musketeer?

[Vaer]

As a former XI player i can't say this has me too interested. While new expansions are always exciting, IMO Treasures of Aht Urghan was the last GOOD expansion. Wings of The Goddess was a Boxed expansion with Campaign on it. That was it for like 6 months, even then it took over a year to get the story out.

It actually took almost 3 years for them to finish the WoTG story. WoTG was released around 11/20/2007 and the update that contained the mission "finale" was released around 11/2010.

[Nekirr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaSs9z8e6YI

I'm sorry FFXI......

[Mevan]

I was excited about this expansion until I remembered that Abyssea still exists. Unless some of these zones allow for leveling to 99 in a traditional manner, I just couldn't care any less about playing this expansion. That said, I'm excited that they're still willing to support this game with another expansion, no one saw this coming.

[Zumi]

People keep bashing FFXI but the funny part is the combat is still more responsive then FFXIV is in its current state.

[bahley]

I just recently got back into FFXI and I figured I would hate it with all the changes over the past couple years... While I do sort of miss the old game, it's still just as addicting as I remember. That video was pretty cheesy and makes the game look even more dated than it actually is, but I'm pretty excited about this

[Elexia]

I find that ironic after people on both forums told SE to release even concept videos of in development stuff. Considering they added the files on test server..1 maybe 2 weeks ago? It's clear they're only in conceptual stage and wanted to show that there will be an expansion xD