By Fairy.Xxnumbertwoxx 2009-02-18 00:55:30
Yeah, there was a link posted here that talked about it, actually. What I gathered from it was SE is working on a new MMO, there's no reason to be alarmed, FFXI will be around for a while, but not to expect any large expansions (like WotG and ToAU) from here on out. They are still making money on it, but they're not gonna funnel lots more money into development at this point, as the return on the investment in new accounts would probably be small.
To be honest, I wonder sometimes how SE would phase out FFXI. Would they just "hit the switch" and turn it off? Or gradually merge servers until the end? Friends and I have discussed it a few times, and what we think they should do, if they do one day decide "Ok, this is it, we're shutting down in a month", is turn on PvP, make all items free, let everyone just raise upon death with no weakness, open up all the zones to everyone, and just let those of us that are left go completely nuts. Gotta admit it'd be fun as ***, and a nice way to end the game, with everyone laughing their *** off as they killed each other over and over ^^
At any rate, here's to hoping for 100k! (this site ROCKS!) ^^