FFXI Thinning Out?

[Sylvana]

FFXI has been dying for a while now. Its an inevitability, I remember doing /sea all and seeing 3100-3600 people during primetime and b4 I left it was about 1000 less to 2100-2600. FFXI wont go away anytime soon but its slowly dieing. I think it'll take SE to create a nex-gen MMO in a established franchise (chrono trigger, final fantasy etc) to fully kill this game.

[Muteki]

I'd take a small community of mostly decent people than 9M players with most of them being fucking jerks.

WoW community = http://cheekydnb.com/pics/Truck_of_fail.jpg

Yeah how about that, an online game with 18x the playerbase has a greater abundance of assholes.

At least I can fight the equivalent of Fafnir every day with my guild, kill it, and watch it drop at least 3 things people can use.

/clap

No argument there.

[Tajin]

I don't necessarily think it's dying yet, but it is on a slow, downwards slope. I don't see it as being a problem, though, and I'm not too concerned. There are still stuff I want to do ingame that I have time to do, and when it eventually is over, I'll find a new pasttime. I have plenty of other ways to stay in touch with the friends I've made ingame. :D

^

[Ryany]

I just hope they don't condense servers if the population dwindles. The last time I checked, there were still too many people at king camps and far too many people fighting for mobs at merit camps.

[Correction]

I just hope they don't condense servers if the population dwindles. The last time I checked, there were still too many people at king camps and far too many people fighting for mobs at merit camps.

It only takes 36 people on a single server who want Ridills and D.Rings for there to be too many people at king camps. SE can fix it by putting in better gear in non-zero-sum endgame content but they're demonstrably against that.

Merit camps are a much easier problem to solve, however.

[Tajin]

It only takes 36 people on a single server who want Ridills and D.Rings for there to be too many people at king camps. SE can fix it by putting in better gear in non-zero-sum endgame content but they're demonstrably against that.

Merit camps are a much easier problem to solve, however.

Actually is far far easier to put NMs in force pop mode [deadhorse.gif] than it is to convince people there is other camps besides Nyzul Birds.



YES, THERE IS OTHER CAMPS OUT THERE!, YOU GIMP MOTHERFUCKERS WARs DUALWIELDING SWORDS AT LEVEL73!

[Obev]

Well now there's a Fafnir drama thread, an RMT armchair economics thread, and an FFXI is dying thread on page one. I wasn't even aware BG had it's own Cavernous Maw, let alone that I'd gone through it.

Here are your objectives:
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8002/timewarpfr7.jpg

[Koga]

Well now there's a Fafnir drama thread, an RMT armchair economics thread, and an FFXI is dying thread on page one. I wasn't even aware BG had it's own Cavernous Maw, let alone that I'd gone through it.

Here are your objectives:
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8002/timewarpfr7.jpg

its easier to just do the 5th dimension.

[Skeetaru]

Man we havent even had an update to bitch about and already FFXI is dying.

BRB trying out WoW

[Koga]

Man we havent even had an update to bitch about and already FFXI is dying.

BRB trying out WoW

Not missing much... I still play from time to time but here is the general idea:
Level to 70 > Raid a bit > get bored > level another job to 70 > quit your last 70 job > raid with new 70 > get bored > level another job to 70 > quit 2nd 70 job > raid with 3rd 70 > etc.

[Correction]

Not missing much... I still play from time to time but here is the general idea:
Level a job to 75 > Camp Kings > Level a subjob > Camp Kings > level another job to 75 > Camp Kings > Merit > Camp Kings > Merit > Camp Kings

Hey I can oversimplify too!

[Eaglestrike]

I actually recently created an LS and pretty much every member has quit for a while and all eventually came back to the game, lol. If FFXI truly is thinning out (which wouldn't surprise me) I don't really mind so far, can't really tell from what I do in the game.

[Skeetaru]

Man we havent even had an update to bitch about and already FFXI is dying.

BRB trying out WoW

Not missing much... I still play from time to time but here is the general idea:
Level to 70 > Raid a bit > get bored > level another job to 70 > quit your last 70 job > raid with new 70 > get bored > level another job to 70 > quit 2nd 70 job > raid with 3rd 70 > etc.

whoosh

[Saraphym]

Honestly I think its just this time of the year, its right after holidays and a new year, people have been busy shopping, working overtime/double shifts, doing family junk, partying, going back to school, etc. (i know, zomg social life out of ff nowai). That's just my 2 cents.

[ryskar]

Oh snap, time to sell our stuff to IGE before it's too late!

only one man can save us: vandole

[Pendas]

I think the reason WotG disappointed many people and in turn are being turned off by the game is the lack of progression in the new expansion; theres nothing to work for. CoP had a bunch of new missions to keep people busy, and TaU had Assault and the Armor that can be gained from it and insane Merit Camps. WotG has 3 Missions that can be done solo in 1 day, and a level 50ish armor set with mediocre stats. Theres nothing to work for and no ways to advance a level 75 character, all we got was a way to solo exp 65+.

Now I'm sure future updates will fix that, but for an initial launch theres nothing to keep us interested for the next 3 Months.

[kuronosan]

I think lack of great content updates and the fact that SE is turning a blind eye to hacked accounts has turned a lot of people (myself included) off of the game. With school coming up and lots of other things going on in my life I just don't really want to make time for a game that the company who made it doesn't even care about.

[Tajin]

CoP had a bunch of new missions to keep people busy.

I still see people shouting for Promvyon, so the mission being "content" (and a reason to bitch) is pure bullshit in the big picture.

Nowadays people zergs missions regardless of how long/hard they are, putting JP midnight as checkpoint only makes the bitching increase.

[Royal]

Maybe thats why I can't get an invite at 53 :/. Its been scarce at this level but never this scarce.

[ronin sparthos]

Maybe thats why I can't get an invite at 53 :/. Its been scarce at this level but never this scarce

The only time that i think most people notice the lack of players ingame is in this situation.