By Pandemonium.Eternaltriumph 2009-12-20 10:46:13
SE really doesn't give a ***about this game anymore. Until it's REALLY on the verge of collapse, they don't plan on acting. They release updates every almost 3 months now, instead of the six-eight like they used to. Nothing useful is added, mainly just placebos. There are no original events anymore (remember fighting the bulls...?), as well as absolutely no new blood of players coming in.
Look at the sales of the Vana collection. And even most of those sales were people *with* FFXI wanting the miniexpansions they missed, a backup disk, or a Nexus cape.
Off topic that's still kind of on...SE cares so little, there wasn't even a fanfest this year. Server merging will not happen until it is vital to keeping any server open...which is far from this point.