2015 FFXI's Live Event Summary/Discussion

FFXI mobile excuse me while I laugh... HA !

I think the real question is, what will become of FFXIAH in 2016?

Im going to guess nothing most people will end up at 14 (not me) and this is also a 14 website.

http://www.ffxivpro.com/

Let's hope so, we got a presidential election at the end of 2016 to discuss.

I'm just waiting for the rush of massive *** who quit years ago to come out of the woodwork going, "lulz u meen it was still going NEway?" or "lol they finally shutting down that dumb game."

I've always hated the people who quit and thought the game suddenly couldn't exist without their precious contributions.

I'm almost tempted to come back to XI to watch the no lifers weep softly !

Wow. It's almost like I posted that and you sensed I needed an example. :p

Hey I aim to please !

Well in the end they were right, if they had all been playing today i doubt it would be shutting.

In short: no.
What is said here is what they said, no word on server consolidation, no word on subscription fees, just the word of one more story to play through and alledgedly no more new (story driven) content anymore after that.

Oh, and please buy our new phone aps!

Personally I'm kind of disappointed in 2 things:

1) No server merge announcement. They had to know that the player count would eventually start to slowly dwindle away up to that last content release. Why not put us all closer together (or make server transfers free at any given time) so we can at least do one more Olympic "Around the World" tour of all our friends? (ok that last past I was kidding, but seriously? No merge?)

2) I really don't understand the logic of banning all those players for 3rd party tools. I understand the ToS was broken, but with the announcement that this game will effectively stop progressing beyond November, they had to know the game was coming to an end soon anyways, right? Why ban so many players right at the end of the game's life? It just seems like a crappy decision (timing-wise) if they were truly focusing their attention on something else. I guess all the kids who got banned aren't really upset now either, since we're all just about to be "banned" when the game is no longer inhabited.

Bonus) This effectively means that any of our hopes and dreams (Neo NNI, new jobs, 119 sky/sea/limbus/dyna etc) is all but a dream that will never materialize. It's definitely bitter-sweet.

And I will admit, the mobile game is cute, but i'll likely not invest my time and money into it. It would be like getting a sour divorce from your wife and then hooking up with her sister to make yourself "feel better". I'm sure it will be neat, but I'll not be paying more money into the Candy-Crush-esque module they are hoping to bank millions off of. Even when it does hit NA (if ever?)

Your tears give Fonewear strength.

Yeah. They've been doing it since like 2006.

Try again.

I don't know the game lasted over 10 years that is pretty impressive.

Actually, it's one of the cheapest. It's only more expensive than the others if YOU make it that way. One character costs $12.95, each additional character adds $1.

FF14 and WoW are both $14.99 flat.

I will admit it will still be a bit much after November if they are not planning any more content update after that.

You can have one mule and it's still cheaper. 2 mules will pretty much put it on par with the other MMO's. It's only more expensive if you go for multiple accounts or have a bajillion mules.

Yeah, at least ending will free up an extra $60 in my household.

BLU better get mighty guard.

The only thing that annoys me here is that since they're putting out a mobile version they expect people to continue playing the game legit, meaning they'll limit the fun Monty Haul ***they could do over the next year to make the whole process a little more enjoyable.

300 JP = Auto-Transcendence!

^^^^^^^^^^

This really would have made a lot more sense. FFXI as a single player experience on mobile could potentially work with a new UI, and using a co-op duty finder type system for BCs would be a nice way to do multiplayer. They're REALLY going to have to adjust content like Dynamis for this to work on mobile. 2-hour time limit events just won't work on a phone.

Where's Draylo? lol.

Last we heard he was seen lighting a candle outside of SE HQ in Japan !

Someone needs to check a bridge close to his home.

I'm all out of XI I'm so lost without...sing it with me now !

For you Draylo:

I'm tempted to re-activate my ffxi account to see all the QQ on my current server. But i refuse to waste 13$

We can all have a "feels" moment together watch the sunset on Valkrum Dunes in our subligar !

While this may be true in "Final Fantasy XI", it's not that far fetched to imagine that Vana'diel could appear in other games and expand on the existing lore. Say, a single player console game set largely in one of the corners of the world we didn't really explore in FFXI.

It's not as if SE has avoiding revisiting existing worlds in the FF series before: they've done multiple Ivalice games, multiple FFVII world games, direct sequels for FFX and FFXIII, etc.