What if they added new rank missions up to rank 20, which gradually get stronger to 99+ in level to where we need a 4+ member party? What happens after Chains of Promathia or Treasures of Aht Urhgan? Does this "peace" truly last? There are plenty of places Square-Enix can take us in FFXI if they so choose. How about an expansion where we see the future of FFXI instead of the past (Wings of the Goddess)? This in itself could actually be a mini "reboot" if we could see the future of Vana'diel... this is where they could take the towns, landscapes, etc and truly make them remarkable.. kinda like the visual refresh in WoW.... What do you guys think?
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I wish they would do something. Adding content is all well and good, but when there's ~1000 on a server at peak times, and a lot of those are bazaar mules and whatnot, I think the first thing they need to do is consolidate all the remaining servers into around 6-7 of them. Once they did that then it would be nice to see something along the lines of what you mention.
I wouldn't hold my breath, though :/ I love XI, and it still pulls me back on occasion (like now), but I have no idea how they can continue to keep it going in a fresh way. When Abyssea was the thing, everyone got as many jobs as they could to 99, geared up, then stagnated. Whenever new content is released it's not very long before it's been assessed as worthwhile or not, decided what's trash, and then done to death by those who've had nothing to do. The only thing SE seems to know how to do is add arbitrarily high amounts of X item to upgrade to Weapon/Armour+Y version to keep things going. FFXI needs Abyssea-levels of outside the box thinking to make it fresh again for a while.
I wouldn't hold my breath, though :/ I love XI, and it still pulls me back on occasion (like now), but I have no idea how they can continue to keep it going in a fresh way. When Abyssea was the thing, everyone got as many jobs as they could to 99, geared up, then stagnated. Whenever new content is released it's not very long before it's been assessed as worthwhile or not, decided what's trash, and then done to death by those who've had nothing to do. The only thing SE seems to know how to do is add arbitrarily high amounts of X item to upgrade to Weapon/Armour+Y version to keep things going. FFXI needs Abyssea-levels of outside the box thinking to make it fresh again for a while.
I think lowering the empyrean weapon requirements to 60 for the 90, 1000 for heavy metal plates, and maybe 40 riftcinder/riftdross would be helpful.
Edited, Feb 11th 2014 11:55am by thinktank
Edited, Feb 11th 2014 11:55am by thinktank
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Diamondis wrote:
I wish they would do something. Adding content is all well and good, but when there's ~1000 on a server at peak times, and a lot of those are bazaar mules and whatnot, I think the first thing they need to do is consolidate all the remaining servers into around 6-7 of them. Once they did that then it would be nice to see something along the lines of what you mention.
Merge the servers and you'll lose even more of the remaining few players.
You'll get a few months of large groups of players. Then people who lost their names, people whose favorite spots are now over crowded, people whose money making methods are now shared among dozens of people, etc will get sick of it and move on. Like they did the last time they merged servers.
Edited, Feb 11th 2014 2:34pm by TribalProphet
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