Is FFXI Dying?

ok do the math with 350,000 users. yah....still going no where.

There are over 9000 people playing this game.

To be honest, I think it's the opposite. FFXI has never been new-player-friendly to begin with, especially compared to something like WoW. I seriously doubt very many "WoW n00bs" are going to stick with a game as difficult as FFXI for very long. I'm sure a few of them will, but they're hardly the downfall of Vana'diel. If anything, it brings a bit of diversity.

That's my biggest problem with the game: a lack of diversity. Out of the 15k or so people on each server, it's unofficially ruled by a small percentage of the "hardcore" ones. You know the type(or in some cases, you *are* the type): standing around WG all day, arguing amongst each other about microscopic differences in one pair of gloves over another while waiting for yet another SAM to show up for your merit/nyzul party, and when the occasional new player sticks with the game long to actually make it to WG, they get mocked and insulted when asking for help in a genkai or something.

These are the people who ensure that nobody who spends less than 8 hours a day in-game will ever be accepted into the fold. And since SE creates ridiculous content that caters only to these people, new content will be geared toward a progressively smaller and smaller amount of hyper-nerds with each update, and eventually the people who only play for fun will have no reason to play at all. That's pretty much the opposite of a "kids game".

^This

Don't hate and the BLM King!!

He is all that he can be, in FFXI. (head motion)

go lvl another job

>they will keep supporting FFXI has long as it has a player base..

>blind hope

Or you can stop making wild assertions based on opinion.

I deleted what I said, because I thought it might come off as offensive. Wasn't trying to be.
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It's ok :d By the way SE financial results for March 08 - 09 fiscal year will be published soon (expected for the end of may), it's the best indicator anyone can use to determine how SE is doing and if FF XI is still going strong.

The problem is that those results MIGHT be somewhat distorted, since it can have as costs on online games, the developement of Rapture. I didn't watch the results closely, so I am not sure if they separated them or not. And the document isn't that clear either. An insider of SE could disclose a bit more info :P

2005, FFXI had 2 million registered players, and back then it costed much more, about $17-$18 avg.

2,000,000 x $17.5 = A lot more than now.

That's my biggest problem with the game: a lack of diversity. Out of the 15k or so people on each server, it's unofficially ruled by a small percentage of the "hardcore" ones. You know the type(or in some cases, you *are* the type): standing around WG all day, arguing amongst each other about microscopic differences in one pair of gloves over another while waiting for yet another SAM to show up for your merit/nyzul party, and when the occasional new player sticks with the game long to actually make it to WG, they get mocked and insulted when asking for help in a genkai or something.

SE needs to release a new tank job, they also need to rollback the campaign battle fortification exp.

I'd be surprised if SE added anymore jobs. They pretty much covered all the basics and they as far as the world of Vana'diel, they've pretty much covered everything except East Aht Urghan, and the Mithra motherland.

Time mage -
Geomancer -
Chemist -
Mime -