Rest In Piss Mobile XI

I wonder what that big announcement in 2022 is if they axed the mobile game.

The Mobile Gaming Market needs to crash and burn and never come back again.

99.9% of the "games" on Google Play are literally pay2win casinos.

Even the classics like OG Angry Birds and Cut the Rope are filled with microtransactions and face-raping ads these days.

Hurray, maybe now they get back to focusing on that new expansion and/or HD remaster.

Have you been playing Mobius FF? It was one of the best Final Fantasy game. Story was decent, especially crossovers with different Final Fantasy games. Gameplay was great and you was able to automate (and setting perfect auto deck was mini game on its own) fights when grinding and play manually when fight was tough. It was on phones and later on Steam too. It had very good system, where you didnt need to spend anything to play Story PvE (unless you wanted to play like 5h+ a day, every day). The only thing where pay2win mattered was climbing towers (PvE contest with monsters being harder on each floor). Still many people were able to place in top 100 without spending even 1$. Some wales were spending few thousands of $ monthly tho to get all supreme cards and most people spent at least 60$ 2-3 times a year for special supreme pull. Now the big twist is that this game was still cancelled too. Its one thing I cannot forgive SE. Totally *** move. Whats the conclusion tho? Dont really expect mobile game from SE where you wont be sucked from every $ you have, because they seems to have very high threshold for those game to be worth keeping alive.

Definitely still curious as to what their 2022 surprise is.

i disagree it sucked i played it for 5 mins

What's really bizarre to me about this is that they already made a mobile FF11 port for Japanese smartphones several years ago. It was called Final Fantasy Grandmasters. It was... a different kind of game, but it used the job system, basic story elements and Vana'diel lore, subjobs&job abilities, and endgame raids (each of the Avatar fights, Nyzul Isle, etc.). It even used the Trust system--- instead of forming parties with real players you could make a party of NPCs to solo certain content.




The game wasn't even that bad by mobage standards... it used cute chibi 3D models for the characters, had a fairly robust party finder system, a shout system, and plenty of ways to play with other people (if you joined an existing battle, you could help bring the mob down for a portion of the drop rewards). Player collaboration was super important, since each job had to time their debuff+buff uses with each other in order to clear high-end content. It was a little tricky at first since my Japanese isn't that good, but eventually I was able to see the regular patterns and ability cycles.

The progression system relied on gear iLvls and upgrading abilities to make them more potent or have more uses. It was... fine, it at least made sense. The gacha system was tbh kinda annoying, since you had two gachas: one for equipment, and one for job-specific abilities. On top of that, there were sometimes Trust Fests which used the same gacha system as the ability one. That's really my one complaint, as far as I remember. I don't hate gacha systems at all, I've seen some really well-implemented ones (Dissidia Opera Omnia is a good example in the West). Grandmaster's gacha system kinda sucked. But overall, this was a pretty good game, and the closest I've seen to true MMORPG-style interaction in a mobage.

So seeing all the drama and dumb ***revolving around this so-called "FF11 mobile port" kind of confuses me.

Wish SE could buy the already done assets and transform that game into a single player version of FFXI that can remain as faint memory of what FFXI used to be even 10 years from now.

FFXI is a "numbered" FF after all. What is SE gonna tell their fans in 2035 when the FFXI servers will likely be closed and FFXI unplayable?
Will SE tell his fans "you can't play the eleventh title of the FF series, sorry"?

Providing an offline-only version, while only an imitation of what FFXI really used to be, would be better than nothing.

Wish SE could buy the already done assets and transform that game into a single player version of FFXI that can remain as faint memory of what FFXI used to be even 10 years from now.

FFXI is a "numbered" FF after all. What is SE gonna tell their fans in 2035 when the FFXI servers will likely be closed and FFXI unplayable?
Will SE tell his fans "you can't play the eleventh title of the FF series, sorry"?

Providing an offline-only version, while only an imitation of what FFXI really used to be, would be better than nothing.

6200+ estimated accounts

Even if that number is 80,000 it would be a flop as far as cost of development would go for a game of this scale.

SE sold 3 million copies of Avengers and still caused them to have a 50M loss for the entire company for the second quarter.

I go in a vicious cycle of "Hey! There's hope! Yoshida wouldn't *** with people for no reason!" followed immediately by "Oh yes, HOPE. Let's see how THAT works out for you", rinse, repeat.

Doubt they will remake ffxi for offline. Yes SE does like to "port" and milk everything they can from old titles. But there is a huge cost difference in having to completely redo a game of XI's scope and "porting" a title. "Port" takes minimal effort with little cost while XI would probably have a huge cost since it would have to be redone from the ground up. XI doesn't have a huge player base either, 6200+ estimated accounts doesn't sound like a risk any sane company would waste time/money on. Also many people have multiple accounts and only having "offline" play would cut that number of accounts way down too. It just wouldn't be an investment that would pay off for them.

Wish SE could buy the already done assets and transform that game into a single player version of FFXI that can remain as faint memory of what FFXI used to be even 10 years from now.

what part of FFXI isn't really single player now?

Its an acquired game play style that was/is not that popular for most people. Most people don't like the grind and want instant gratification in a game. That's why FFXI didn't do so well against WoW and other mmorpg that were out at the same time frame of its prime. The amount of money that goes into a game now vs. 18 years ago is staggering. FFXI cost 25M to develop, FFXIV cost almost 400M to develop. It would probably cost 150M+ to redo FFXI into an offline format. The game has to be redone since they never optimized the spaghetti ps2 coding/development environment when they dropped console support. It only had 500K active players in its peak, its not a game that any publisher would take on and expect to be profitable after production/development cost. SE has also made it quite clear that FFXI is not a priority any more, FFXIV unfortunately is.

100% True. The online is what makes XI and XIV unique and have continued value for SE.