How Long Do You See FFXI Lasting?

Longer than my erection, as for beneficial content how about remove oseem from the game ,banish that *** *** silt& stone stealing of a *** once and for all.

There are people who display those stars? Disgusting.

Underrated post.

Forever.

dont star shame me

#starsarebeatifultoo

For as long as people are willing to pay :)
The fact that they actually keep updating it every once in a while (even if only small updates) means that it's still profitable to actually keep developers working on it.
I do think they'll get rid of the PlayOnline client eventually as it's not used for any other game anymore.

Also, if we can learn anything from the success of certain private servers, they should really consider setting-up a level 75 server. I'd probably pay the extra character fare for that.

I dunno but in the past 13 years I've never won the Mog Bonanza! Rigged for sure

With the trend multiboxing at its peak, I’d say this game has a ton of life left in it. I returned late last year and now I kind of regret taking a 7 year break.

It must cost like $5 a month to keep the servers up so probably never

Please ban these threads.

May 2019.

idk where the source is, but wasn't there an interview that said FFXI is still profiting? As in, it's making enough to keep servers open and then some.

*** it. If this game goes F2P and SE sells gil and jump potions I'll start playing again and hexa-box.

I just started as a suggestion from friends, hope it lasts a while considering the sequel is awful.

I guess the question should be, how long will SE continue to support the game outside Japan.

I can't see them switching off the servers any time soon, but, one day I could see the game becoming Japanese only. Anyone know how the player base is split these days?

Poorly translated and used in poor context.

What sequel?

People like to think 14 is 11's sequel when nothing but the races were brought over. People will say things like 'but the monsters all look the same' and then forget that its the same monster models/sprites used in literally every final fantasy title.

Ff11 will last longer than my wanker when it passes the event horizon of a black hole.

You are definitely sick and need help.

Oh oh I triggered a snowflake!

what do loaded questions and loaded potatoes have in common?

They both have a lot of girth.

Nobody is addicted? That's funny

There are multiple reasons why FFXI still entices me over the years.

I've tried every MMO out there to compare

*Guild Wars 1/2
*AON
*WoW
*Arch Lord
*Black Dessert Online
*FF14
etc...

The fighting mechanics of FFXI are the best I've experienced. It's almost like removing the jump and dodge feature that is so common in all makes it better, even though you'd think it was worse. The game UI is just much easier to navigate than others. I am not overwhelmed but the amount of macros, plugins and addons which in some games are required due to the amount of skills you are provided.

FFXI is becoming more close to this as of late, but gear in other MMO's have so many stats its hard to keep up.

Graphics in FFXI are still high-tier, but there are better. WoW looks like N64 and even with maxed out graphics just looks "cartoony". I like a little more realism in my game, if that makes sense.

I am also biased as FFXI was my first MMO. Those who played FFXI first tend to hate other MMO's. Those who didn't play FFXI first tend to think FFXI is 2nd to most.

The game won't die, as long as they keep adding new content, entice newer players to come back with the addition of increased EXP, trusts and uncapped missions. SE isn't going to retire off of the monthly subscriptions going forward, but the game will be respectable in the MMO community and will continue to live for a long time.

As long Windower support it ..... Simple

They have just announced that they will be focusing their sights on the working on the 20th anniversary of FFXI in 3 years. I would be surprised if it wasn't a big change/improvement to the game, since they are telling us this now.

Also keep in mind that they are trying to find ways to make the new/returning player transition much better (i.e. decommission Playonline, its archaic...). They've created the ReFriender program and have been actively encouraging return to VanaDiel for several years. But now they are finally changing the POL platform. For what purpose exactly? My guess is to make it easier for a new "relaunch" in a few years...

Couple that with the fact that there always seems to be some random "exchange server equipment" periodically, and vague announcements where they comment on being able to preserve the character data in the event of an issue. Sounds like to me, they could be planning an updated patch to the gane with HD graphics/expansion etc, similar to what Rooks pointed out on another thread.

I don't see this game ending anytime soon. When you consider all of the recent changes they've made to some of the external interfaces, as well as the in-game QOL changes, it looks like they intend to support this long-term. There isn't any other MMO like it, and it's one of SE most successful products to-date.