24th Anniversary AMAN Live (May 16th, 2026) POLL

Server Shutdown / Merges

But sadly they already said there won't be a second kupon.

Ito

No, not at all. We borrowed people from the FFXIV maps team and named a leader for the group, but we still didn't have enough people, so we turned to Matrix* for additional assistance. From there, we started working on the map for Seekers of Adoulin behind the scenes while development on the version updates proceeded as usual.* Matrix Corporation. They worked on the additional scenarios: "A Crystalline Prophecy," "A Moogle Kupo d'Etat," and "A Shantotto Ascension," as well as assisted with the development of Seekers of Adoulin.

So did you come up with the world setting and story after that?
Ito

Yes. I ended up writing most of the world setting and the plot for the scenario myself up until the content was announced. I spoke with Mr. Saito*, who was in charge of the events at the time, and we came up with things like the characters, the Naakuals, and the Twelve Orders. Afterward, we also managed to get some of the visuals together, so we were able to announce the content at the Vana★Fest 2012 event that commemorated the game's 10th anniversary. We were working at an incredible pace, so I think people were quite surprised by the announcement.

Fujito

Matrix worked together with us on Seekers of Adoulin from its planning stages, and that's where the idea of the Mog Garden was born. I then took that idea and made it into what was added to the game. Even back then, it was standard for social games at the time to give players some kind of reward for logging into the game every day as a way to encourage them to play, so we thought about ways to introduce that kind of feature to FFXI.

The thing I don't get is that with seekers of Adoulin almost all of the work was outsourced to a 3rd party developer (most of the people at SE were working on XIVARR). Why can't they do that again? 30-40k of us would buy the expansion, + years of sub fees and etc It would obviously pay for itself to do it.

But sadly they already said there won't be a second kupon.

As someone who also is a huge fan of trolling online, I want to share something I have learned over the years. You've gotta keep the bait more subtle than this, nobody is going to bite on this one.

This seems beyond insane as the first one led to the highest playerbase (read: revenue from subscriptions) that they had in over 10 years. I fail to see what they could give players that would be on the same level this year without just doing it again.

I mean, they already announced a bunch of upcoming updates (limus, besieged, more additions to trust upgrades, blu/pup UI, new HTMBs, new NMs in the open world, am I forgetting anything?).

I know they solicited feedback and stated that they would do more HTBFs in the future. Without going back and checking through mission lines, I am drawing blanks at some of the more prominent battlefield fights they could turn into HTBF. What are some you think that would qualify? (When you don't do those missions for years you forget them).

I guess there's the entire line of SOA and TVR fights that could turn HTBF. The double-Reisenjima fight with the Yagudo might be a good one. Then there's the 3 scenario addon final battles.

Moogle Kupo somethin.

The things I would do for an ilvl anwig salade with pet dt-10%

the item "Shade Moogle Rod" from the NPC "Moogle" in the following areas: