the end of final fantasy XI?????Follow

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Edited, Thu Oct 13 11:45:16 2005 by Dassureth

- they wont within 2 years shut down servers. the incline of people joining this game is still going up, and even more soon.

- Servers will stay up after they stop working on the game. look at lineage, and EQ. hell even go further and see that theres still people playing Diablo.

Edited, Thu Oct 13 11:53:04 2005 by Dassureth

for what all this exp boosts? because of wow offcourse, more people wants to do play solo in this game and with the npc and the new rings you can plzy a bit solo. i think this game wil not shut down for @ least 5 years or so, because of the xbox360 launch

o.o wow lol
"the end of final fantasy XI?????"Looks like GeneralTalon will have to make a new account to be above sub-default. Stop predicting this game will die down >.>

I don't see FFXI getting shut down for a longtime if ever...look at Ultima & EQ. FFXI at least has some failsafes against cruel players such as when you die they cant rob you, you can't be robbed period (unless you "trust" someone with your codes), People cannot directly PK you.
FFXI has a variety of character options but not so many as to overwhelm you. I think this will last a lot longer than just 5 more years.

Hehe


I LOVE that ring se finally did something that People will Love and does not wreck the gamplay.


I use that ring once a day i try to lvl. Then once i finish pting I'll Uselly Do the 10 Million mission or quests I've been meaning todo for awhile lol.

I doubt SE will stop the servers for a very long time. Think decades.

Once development ceases, whether after next expansion or sometime later, the cost to SE for keeping servers up is nominal. There will be no more updates and very few server maintenances. The main cost for SE currently is the constan revision of game balance, and the work being put into changes. Once that stops, and every developer is working on a new project, they can keep the FFXI servers running on low cost, high profit pretty much indefinitely.

As long as there are still players.

I for one see myself playing this game for years and years to come. And I suspect there are tens of thousands of players like me.

Who cares? Seeing 245+ exp from VT - low IT mobs is mesmerizing. I don't care if the effect only seems to last 30 minutes, thats 30 minutes of getting 220-350 exp from IT chains. Chain 2 yesterday on an IT++ yielded 388 exp, but we were more than satisfied seeing 275 on chain 5 on a Goblin.

Just because they're better suited to soloing doesnt mean you have to solo with them. Besides, 1k extra per exp party isn't bad. SE did say the effects were small but would quickly add up in the pre-update notes.

I'd rather see a bazillion exp from exp mobs than barely 50-75 from mobs I can solo. And I can't solo much, trust me; not enough to be able to make the ring worth the full 1k exp.

I love how all the 3rd 4th 5th generation of 75 people always cry about all the exp changes that make it easier....

Did anyone stop to think that maybe they are adding these items as a reward for the dedicated people that are working on thier 2nd 3rd 4th & 5th jobs to 75?

& fyi FFXI is nowhere near shuting down when they start to shut down servers due to lack of people on then then you can worry.

FFXI is still going stronger then ever rest assured the newly announced expansion is the 3rd of many more to come.

Get a grip people & stop all the stupid baseless speculation FFXI will be around for years to come.

Your logic is flawed...

A few points:

When the NA release, and subsequent PS2 influx happened, the emphasis seemed to be on exp. The fact that you assume getting to 75 is "game completion" confirms this, and the attitude is rampant. I'm not sure SE intended the game to be all about grinding. The other Final Fantasy games had myriad side quests, items, storyline, and alternatives to simply making your character stronger.

The rings "give" you 7,000 exp/week. Assuming a level of 21,000 exp (picking a medium number), that's three weeks of busting the limit on the ring every single day. "Why?" you ask...

You can now lvl a job you might not want to take to 75 a bit faster, and just get that subjob lvl overwith. You can now *perhaps* in theory take the emphasis off of fighting IT++++OMG+++ mobs.

Most importantly, the exp "help" when looked at together, seems to be about freeing up more time to explore other jobs, get involved in the storyline, and move on to new areas. PMs can be pesky; some do best with a lot of mages, others with a lot of melee, still others call for a BST/NIN's touch. The point? Getting to Sea would optimally also mean having several jobs available to you.

Lastly, imagine starting a job from scratch, or starting after the Xbox release. Those of us who know a fair amount about the game have aquired most of that knowledge from being in the game, and we've learned it all over a long time. People arriving at this game have a LOT on their plate. In order to not have it all seem entirely impossible, one smart move would be to have this "exp assistance" in the game.

In other words, when you really look at it, the recent additions, announcements, and concessions point to a longer, healthier FFXI. The Chicken Little attitude, though, will prevail and always find root. Hopefully SE will "throw out" some of the NPCs and buildings which are little-used, making the game more streamlined in the longrun.

Yes, I believe someone mentioned EQ and Ultima. Thoser games have been around for years and don't show sign of stopped[ as far as I know]. I don't think you could predict the collapse of an MMO just because of an item release... Servers are filling up more and more, expansions are coming out, SE still has consistant updates, and they're expanding XI to another platform. No signs of stopping.


As for those rings, I think 7k xp is worth 1k CP. Sure it will take you 100+ hours to fully obtain that 7k [because of the recast], but I think any addition is a good help for quicker leveling. I'll definately be using them from now on.

I would imagine that they introduced the empress/chariot bands specifically to *keep* people playing. At this point, the hardcore FF people are all level a million and what they're trying to do now is keep those of us who are interested in the game but don't particularly feel like killing the same walking turnip over and over and over and over for a month until we're a high enough level to get to anything interesting from just walking away.

From my experience, it works, too. I was juuuuuuuuuuust about ready to give up at level 15. Then they introduced the exp enhancers. If anything, the exp enhancers will *extend* the life of the game rather than shorten it, because all of us who would have gotten tired of the ongoing walking turnip massacre from hell a month ago now have a reason to keep playing (namely, we are now able to continue with the actual game).

As for getting people to "endgame status" more rapidly: I'm married to a hardcore FF freak. Trust me, they just start over. :) On top of that, the unique thing about this kind of online game is that it never really has to come to an "end". SE can just keep adding to it and changing variables (which seems to be the plan).

The point, as far as I can guess, isn't to get people to complete the game. It's to keep them paying thirteen bucks a month. Nobody enters into a business proposition where the goal is to get people to *stop* giving them money.

yeah most of you are probably right, it was just a thought i had and wanted to see what other people think. the answer im nuts.lol
So there moving in on the 360, more people, gotta be a good thing, although more noobs, so an increase in the funny noob thread predicted. Anyway better get back to lvl up my thief and war, now when did i last use that ring, ahh dam maintence.

You can't talk exo.

Rawr!