Final fantasy xiv 1.23b server relaunch?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

If it did that would've been an insane growth achievement. People needed the game and an additional modem and hard drive to even play the game. Dial up was still around in some places and the internet as a whole wasn't a necessity like it is today. Smartphones weren't even a big thing. So comparing it to a modern day MMO isn't really applicable.

Anyways, nothing we've discussed here has pointed to the game being anything other than a resounding success with a few people who didn't like it. It seems to me it's good remake material. If they've remastered other FFs surely its previously most profitable one also deserves to be remastered. That's all I'm gonna say.

Ever quest peaked at abiut the same numbers, and ever quest 2 is still going also.





Wow came out shortly after XI did and we know how that story goes.



I don't know that I agree with you on only a few people not liking XI, but I won't argue it's success.





I do really wonder how many people who think they want xi but shiny actually want like, the "good era" of XI but shiny.





Times have changed a lot and most of those people are my age or older now. And I'm not exactly young anymore.

[Gerolan]

Always bugs me when people say XI wasn’t that big due to only half a million subscribers, I still remember having to use dial up to play when it launched, as you correctly pointed out, EQ2 is still going strong
For it’s time XI was incredibly successful, sure in the modern age it is dated, especially the things like randomly speaking to NPCs and hope they have a quest, rather than a marker, but I use to spend hours in some zones just taking in the scenery

[Ath192]

Always bugs me when people say XI wasn’t that big due to only half a million subscribers, I still remember having to use dial up to play when it launched, as you correctly pointed out, EQ2 is still going strong
For it’s time XI was incredibly successful, sure in the modern age it is dated, especially the things like randomly speaking to NPCs and hope they have a quest, rather than a marker, but I use to spend hours in some zones just taking in the scenery

If there was a demand for it then, I feel there would be a demand for it now. Sure some of us may not have the time (even myself, I mean I have work and family) to prog it every day but there are A LOT of people who do. Labor force participation is shrinking meaning more people don't work and get sustained by someone else, there are still plenty of kids and college students that don't do anything during the summer and for people like us we would just go slower. The disabled would have an easier time playing something like that than say.... IDK trying to clear a savage or ult where the pacing means you're always moving and pressing buttons really quickly.

I just feel a well executed, modernized version of a progression focused and slow paced MMO would find the same crowd of fans it did back then when the gamer pool was a lot smaller and had more challenges.

Given that no company wants to gamble though, I feel remaking XI with XIVs Engine and seeing how that venture goes would be a great way to save costs and try it out. Especially with the graphics update is receiving in 7.0. I mean XI fans would be over the moon with a nicer looking version of their MMO.

Or unreal, since they're using that over at CBU1, which ever proves economical and more upgradeable in the long run.

[Gerolan]

Absolute agree with your comments
Sadly due to failing eye sight, I have more time on my hands now, hence why I miss the days taking in XI scenery.
The core game has so much story that it could easily be retold with an updated engine
I know a lot of it they blamed on PS2 limitations, but the story could easily be retold, heck they could even build it into XIV as a fan service, they are already doing a dawntrail XI raid
Just bugs me when people dismiss XI due to being old, a lot of the franchise is old but has been remade or remastered
Personally the reason I no longer play it, is paying a sub for a game in maintenance mode
I have so many fond memories of the game and the friends I made, who I still speak to now via socials
FF is the only game and franchise where I ended up making real life friends

[midnitdragoon]

Absolute agree with your comments
Sadly due to failing eye sight, I have more time on my hands now, hence why I miss the days taking in XI scenery.
The core game has so much story that it could easily be retold with an updated engine
I know a lot of it they blamed on PS2 limitations, but the story could easily be retold, heck they could even build it into XIV as a fan service, they are already doing a dawntrail XI raid
Just bugs me when people dismiss XI due to being old, a lot of the franchise is old but has been remade or remastered
Personally the reason I no longer play it, is paying a sub for a game in maintenance mode
I have so many fond memories of the game and the friends I made, who I still speak to now via socials
FF is the only game and franchise where I ended up making real life friends

I want to resub to Final Fantasy XI, but the only thing that kinda bums me out is that i would have to pay for a separate sub in addition to XIV. I wish Square Enix, if they cant remake 11 now, if they can merge the two subscriptions, maybe a update FF11 launcher. I would love it if they did that.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I want to resub to Final Fantasy XI, but the only thing that kinda bums me out is that i would have to pay for a separate sub in addition to XIV. I wish Square Enix, if they cant remake 11 now, if they can merge the two subscriptions, maybe a update FF11 launcher. I would love it if they did that.

Pretty much the only sensible reason not to play FFXI at this day and age (that and the terrible installation and account creation that is even worse than FFXIV's).