The Five Stages of FFXIV MigrationFollow

Realisticaly? There will probably be support for FFXI for another 5-10 years at least.

Very few MMOs have had their servers turned off forever (usually ones taht were never profitable to begin with). Even Everquest, as dead as it is, still gets official support.

Though I do give it half a year before the servers get merged down to 1-3 servers total.

Edited, Jun 11th 2009 11:40am by Karelyn

FFXI's been pretty much dead to me for the past few months. I'm already at acceptance.

I'll give FFXIV a try. I don't know if it'll have the same sparkle and sense of wonder that FFXI did (my first online game), but I don't think I'd consider myself a true FF fan if I didn't at least give it a chance.

Meh, I doubt any MMO will ever achieve the wonder I had back when I picked up my first MMO, Ragnarok Online. I look back on that game, and am still impressed with the level of details in that game's sprites, and the generally homeliness of it.

Your first MMO will always hold a special place in your heart. Unless your first MMO was Runescape, then it holds a special place in your nightmares.

Most important thing to remember when playing an MMO:

There is no such thing as progress. There is only enjoyment of the game.

Even if you've played FFXI for 6 years and have a Maat's Cap and relic, you haven't made a single bit of progress. You've just played the game, and, hopefully, enjoyed it, just as much when you were level 5 with no sub as you do now.

Edited, Jun 11th 2009 12:23pm by Shiinpu

I don't think those steps work for all of us, because for a lot of us this isn't really good or bad news. Or maybe it is both good and bad news. The emotions are more complicated in that we are sad at the though of possibly leaving XI behind, but at the same time excited to start fresh in a new game. To make it more complicated is we are still at a stage where we don't know for sure if we are going to be leaving at all, depending on what XIV is like and how good it is.

I've all but officialy stopped playing XI now. A few months back I had a surge of commitments take increasing chunks of my time and while I can still log on every now and then for the odd hour, when I do I accomplish next to nothing and quickly become frustrated.

If XIV sports some of the things that make XI great (solid PvE focus, depth of storyline, cutscenes etc) together with the ability to make meaningful progress at a casual basis-- sign me up!

For me, it will be the XI I never truely got to enjoy.

I'm also at the stage where I am pretty much done with FFXI. I just want to have fun with my friends and not take anything to serious anymore. Between the announcement of FFXIV and playing the beta for Aion there is just no motivation for me to do anything in FFXI.

Leaving XI for good will be very difficult for me. I started playing MMO's with Ragnarok Online, then move onto FFXI when it got released in NA. It's been my home since.

I still play and love FFXI so it's gonna be hard to say goodbye. I'll keep my XI account, even after XIV comes, just in case I get the urge to play it again :p

The feeling I got from FFXIV's announcement was an exaggerated version of what I felt when I read Scott Ramsoomair's comic about implementing Level Sync. I had quit FFXI for the 3rd time at that point, and was missing it dearly. I went back, was more productive than before, and accomplished a few of my goals. FFXI popped my MMO cherry and for the type of sentimental and plot-driven gamer that I am, it was a virtually irreplaceable experience. But after about 4 hiatuses over the course of the past 7 years, and restarting on various servers, I've finally admitted that I'll never have time for its endgame content and still be a functional, on-track college student who occasionally likes to do things that don't necessarily involve FFXI.

I admit, FFXI made me a snob. I like MMOs to wax hardcore, and I think FFXIV will still have that to a lesser degree, but if there's one thing it NEEDS to have, it's the FFXI community. We @#%^ing rock. I almost want FFXI to be a prerequisite for purchasing FFXIV (no, not realistically). As long as FFXIV has this, I won't miss FFXI nearly so much.

The real test will be when FFXIV's been out for a good bit, gotten out of beta, and then we look back at FFXI. I for one doubt that any of us won't get teary-eyed and sniffle, XIV success or no.

Edited, Jun 11th 2009 9:53pm by AlphaPendragon

Same here, since i dont do end game stuff, i dont have awesome equipment, and since i dont think i ever going to see the end of some of the expansions, then i can say for sure that im going to go play FFXIV (better graphics? better interface? better character customization? im there... )

All i have been doing in FFXI is leveling jobs, and trying to do some missions and quests (when people helps thats it), so yea, FFXI's been quite dead for me anyway, all my friends are gone so im not going to miss anyone or be missed by anyone...

people like me are focused on losing out on ffxi and going to 14, then 13 comes out and I am going to play that until 14 comes out, buy 14 and probably never beat 13, or at very least play 13 during 14 server maintenance and completely forgetting about ffxi ;(