[Dev] Upcoming Version Update Announcement

I'm not talking about someone coming in saying FFXI sucks, everyone should quit before the servers go down. I'm talking about real opinions about a serious subject, or an issue. If the Dev Team made a choice that drove people away (C&B, R/M/E, nerfs, boring content), then that falls on SE. It isn't the players fault for losing interest. The player should not continue to pay for a game they no longer have fun playing. That doesn't mean they no longer care about the game, they just feel atm there is no reason to give the company money if they don't provide a product worth paying for.

Since people are struggling to keep the topic on track, here's a question.

If someone has quit the game, does their opinion of the game no longer matter? They've played years, just like everyone that is still playing, but they have lost interest or can no longer put the time into playing the game.


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I personally think their opinion does have value, if not more than someone that still plays the game. If you still play, you're going to keep playing. However, someone who has left the game quit for a reason, and if that reason was based on a development decision then there is a lot of value in what they have to say. The reason I feel it does is because if SE changed the reason they left (for example: boring content, nothing to do), then making updates to counter that reason would bring players who left back.

I'm not talking about someone coming in saying FFXI sucks, everyone should quit before the servers go down. I'm talking about real opinions about a serious subject, or an issue. If the Dev Team made a choice that drove people away (C&B, R/M/E, nerfs, boring content), then that falls on SE. It isn't the players fault for losing interest. The player should not continue to pay for a game they no longer have fun playing. That doesn't mean they no longer care about the game, they just feel atm there is no reason to give the company money if they don't provide a product worth paying for.

is it okay for someone to like playing both FFXI and FFXIV? :(

Harder than XIV, can tell you that much.

You do realize both games can co-exist right?

Also, XIV is in BETA, and dont think anyone can rightly judge how hard its going to be, lol.

1.) XIV Players feel this way.

2.) A decreasing amount of XI players feel this way.

3.) SE doesn't seem to feel this way. The better XIV gets, the worse XI gets.

I'm pretty sure the NDA probably doesn't allow me to talk about what's going on in the beta forums, but suffice it to say that while the devs are ignoring us in XI, they're listening there.

For the majority of people, SE was the one that managed to pit the two games against each other. XI players know that XIV will always have better graphics. XIV players accept that XIV is created in a different time and that some of the difficulty they loved about XI may never return. It's SE that makes us feel like the red-headed step-child, while XIV gets nice presents on its birthday, and our birthday too.

I was backreading...how can people deem this update a fail?

I'm pretty sure the NDA probably doesn't allow me to talk about what's going on in the beta forums,

Objectively, there will never be really tough content anymore.

This is an old, beaten down line. There was nothing hard about parking your character in the aery, loading up your claim bot and glancing at the screen for a few seconds every time window was open.

The only content that would of been considered hard was hard due to *** mechanics (AV for example).

Wasn't talking about FFXI, just MMOs in general. Though, tough can be read as "toughest". So it's not necessarily hard, it's just "the hardest".

Nothing was tough in FFXI outside of AV/PW and maybe a few other exceptions (Vrtra, in a way), the only curve was learning what are now basic mechanics.

Ignoring the fact that it's split in 30 days apart, it's a really good update.

Only thing I'm confused about is the Blackout measure, is that like limiting character models or what? Anyone got an idea what it means?

because those people aren't getting what they want, so it's automatically a failure.

New missions
Coalitions progress
New Naakuals
Skirmish Returns
Mog slave children island
Monstrosity

No, you just trash XIV in XI threads. Sometimes when its unprovoked, lol.

All of these things mentioned are casual-friendly.

And it's been said they're fixing couriers assignments, which will help colonization a lot.

The fact that you don't enjoy the game does not relate to this update, which is in fact really good.

Adjustments to Scouts’ Coalition’s “Survey” coalition assignments.
Increase the Egon Locus maintenance rate for one coalition assignment.

All of these things mentioned are casual-friendly.

And it's been said they're fixing couriers assignments, which will help colonization a lot.

The fact that you don't enjoy the game does not relate to this update, which is in fact really good.

because those people aren't getting what they want, so it's automatically a failure.

By the time they get around to updating R/M/E, everyone will then complain about having to replace their fully upgraded Delve weapon with their R/M/E.