Final Fantasy XI “To End in 2010”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Feb 17, 2010 14:14 JST
- Tags: Final Fantasy, Marketing, MMORPG, Otaku, PC Gaming, PS3, Square Enix, Xbox 360
A senior Square Enix employee is being reported as publically saying that Final Fantasy XI will terminate in 2010, to be replaced by Final Fantasy XIV.
The remark was apparently made by one of Square Enix’s top HR people at the “Square Enix Recruiting Seminar 2011,” and duly reported on a personal blog by an attendee:
“I think some amongst you will know, but FF11 started in 2002 … Well, this year it’ll end and the stage will shift to FF14.”
The witness suspects the remark was inadvertent, but it is adamant it was made. Oddly, first the article and then the entire site which reported the remark were taken down shortly after.
Square Enix has previously assured players that any shutdown of the game would be announced a year in advance, so just what is going on is not clear.
A tweet from Square Enix’s CEO also denies the rumour, saying “that’d be troubling,” although this apparent rebuttal is rather short on details, such as whether the remarks were actually made and whether there is anything to them…
In any case, with the sequel nearing release and the original game increasingly showing its age, the day of any shutdown must be close at hand, and it seems pertinent that one of 2ch’s threads on the subject is entitled “How many people will commit suicide when FF11 ends?”
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i downloaded this game and tried to play it and it never would work for me. so im not sad in the least.
Meh, just kill it already. It's funny how people think achievements and challenge in a MMo = sitting in a group and pull the same crab for hours.
Just because thats all people claim happens, doesn't make it true. I bet even the 'hardcore' WoW guilds would die miserably leveling in simple places like Terrigan or Onzozo. That's the funny thing. Crabs/birds are there for the lazy/impatient, a lot of people still wander out and do shit like goblin camping, cocatrices, raptors and whatnot.
You've never played wow, much less been in the endgame
I'm shocked. If dinosaurs like EverQuest still have enough subscribers to pay for the servers, I find it hard to believe that FFXI needs to be shut down.
They should make some kind of deal where people that been playing 11 can carry their stuff over to 14. I that would be fair for the people that have been playing a game for a few years now.
DAMMIT!
I was just about to get ready to buy the damn game in a few weeks, only to hear this!
...well, hopefully XIV will pique my interest as well.
Well thats what you get for sitting on your hands for 8 years, fucktard
Whatever. When you start an online game you should be expecting this.
It's ridiculous to wait for a online game to last forever unless people start making private servers.
You're kidding me... DUDE My server still has 800-1,100 people on AT THE SAME TIME!
This is an outrage! What about 360 users?! FF14 won't be on 360 unless this is square's way of saying f-u to microsoft.
What about people on PC who don't have the general requirements for FF14?
This is reallllly stupid of Square-enix. VERY stupid. A few people in my LS don't wanna play FF14 and wanna still play FF11. This sucks so much.
I used to play on Bahamut before the server was locked for being overpopulated. Fastfoward a year later and its still locked, no new players have touched that server for so long seeing another player is like a rare spawn monster. Personally I've seen this comming for a long time.
If you've played FFXI then you've known for awhile that SE doesn't really give a fuck about the player base.
well since it's moved to XIV, I'll hope XIV would be good
Fake screenshot is fake.
Looks more like a screenshot of text entered into notepad.
- The topic doesn't exist on 2ch.
- Searching 2ch for FFXI and suicide doesn't match anything.
- 2ch uses a gray background for it's posts.
- Livedoor uses real JP 'unicode' text, not MSGothic. - Livedoor isn't a text only blog.
Stop believing everything you read on this site and/or 4chan.
I don't think you understood the article.
2ch has nothing to do with the article itself.
The screen was taken from a Google cache of the page, as it was already deleted - naturally it doesn't display properly.
You are wise to dispute the interpretation/validity of the attendee comments themselves, but the actual existence of the post is beyond doubt.
still there 4 years later...
its not gonna happen as u can see on the official website of Final fantasy 11 in marsh 2010 they change the lv cap to 99 and they continue working on new content
This is incredibly misleading and incorrect. Square Enix has stated MANY times that FFXI will not end until people stop playing it.
“I think some amongst you will know, but FF11 started in 2002 … Well, this year it’ll end and the stage will shift to FF14.”
What he's saying is that the stage is shifting to FF14. Meaning it will be their main focus. And not FF11. They are not ending FFXI, by god you people really take things out of context. I can guarantee you this.
Whoever believes this is an idiot. FFXI is still one of the best MMO's I have ever played. Sure, FFXI is challenging, and it makes you work to get what you want, but all in all it's a good game for what its worth. It is the only MMO to not change their pricing plan. It is EASIER now than it was 6 years ago when I started, so whoever says it's hard now, have no idea wtf they are talking about. FFXI is not dead or dying, yet.
I think they mean development. Don't know if the servers are going down.
at last the FINAL final fantasy!
KILL IT WITH FIRE
“How many people will commit suicide when FF11 ends?”
I don't even want to think about all the hours spent now.
Makes me wonder what would happen if Blizzard announce WOW service is coming to an end...
good job anon 20:55! for me it was easier to quit smoking than it was to quit wow.
I WOULD say it'd be good for a laugh, but the sheer amount of people thrown into depression might really be scary.
No more hikkikomori. or however you spell it
The world would become a better place... that's for sure.
There still would be private servers, like at every game.
I'd say the 15 dollars a month will keep the servers on for a long time. As the playerbase shrinks they will stop making expansions and reduce the number of servers by merging in order to keep themselves in the green. But no reason it can't go for a long time to come.
But i won't be on there. I'm a one year clean recovering WoWaholic.
There are already private servers for both FFXI and WoW, but good luck for small hacker groups to put up a server and service as big as Blizzard's and managing to not get any lawsuits, seriously.
Blizzard employees will probably have several thousand death threats a day, but who cares about them?
I believe the correct and realistic answer is.
Hackers passionate about the game will go in get the data they need, make their own servers, become digital WOW 'crack' dealers and fournish illegal access to WOW for a hefty sum.
Now the real question is...Do I get to keep my K Club and relics?
Who's going to want to play XIV if all their stuff is going to be deleted 7 years from now?
Some territories have only had it for 3 years.
More like who wants their stuff for longer than a few years anyway, i can understand personal characters and the items you have and stuff but how long do you want to play a game, 7 years, thats about 1/10 of the average age ratio. 5 years tops but 7? Come on...
but even star craft is getting a sequel which will pretty much kill off the first.
Don't forget Starcraft.
Yeah but anons, i said who wants their stuff for that long, implying i was talking about rpg and mmo games in general not all games, even i can pick up starcraft or counterstrike and play it but they are different you can just pick them up and play whenever, rpg's and mmo's take time, they become a little of you but having them for that length of time is mad.
Well, counter strike comes to mind. It's been over 10 years and people still aren't bored of that thing.
I assume this will go in affect worldwide since servers are shared internationally. It saddens me to see It end since I was one of them that played since the NA release. Alas, all must come to an end eventually, It was a good run.
yeah, same here, i played since the released and quite at the end of last year. hope ff14 will be even better, might even consider playing ff14.
Let's hope it doesn't turn into an online movie game. (OMG).
:V
o.o wow
Relics weren't that hard to get/do at all.
The only hard thing in that game was finding a god damn party.
Either where a class nobody wanted or had to deal with chinese/jap players that couldn't understand you and vice-versa.
So much about FFXIII being the last one eh.
they said FF13 was the last of its "type". not the last final fantasy.
....i got my Relic gear.... -_-;;
Finally that shit (FFXI) will end !!!
Everyone who managed to get relic weapon and kraken club will commit suicide for sure.
Development or operation? That's crucial. It could be they've halted all development, but maintaining the servers could mean pure profits.
If the user base is decreasing, they can merge worlds pretty easily (force same-name PCs to rename) by using the world transfer already in place; that'd reduce the number of servers to maintain.
I'd like them to keep it going, I've got a crapload of merits to get, still.
Square Enix sure knows how to fail...they should move their base of operations to China.
Failing is warhammer online, being greedy is world of warcraft catering to the casual players for profit, FFXI kept its strong player base and all the qualities of a real mmorpg
I'm almost curious to know what your definition of a real MMORPG is, but I'm certain any attempt to give a reasonable answer will be unabashedly feckless.
"Real" MMORPGs require players to play 4+ hours a day in order to accomplish anything and cause you to lose an hour of progress if you make a single mistake.
See, that's why WoW isn't real. It's possible for people who have full-time jobs and don't live in their parents' basement to spend 30 minutes playing it in an evening and not feel like they've gone backwards when they're done.
yes cuz going backwards = fun.
This is why people want you to design games for them Min, because of your grasp of whats makes gamers happy.
WoW is FTW because it can make the casuals happy and still cater to the hardcore.
Real MMOs don't have fuckawful control schemes or require a controller, but whatever Mr. TotallyNotBiased.
I played FF11 for a decent amount of time.
It wasn't "fun"; but it did give me a sense of accomplishment. It was damn hard. Any idiot can succeed in WoW.
If a game isn't fun then its no game. If you want a sense of accomplishment go and get a job.
an mmo lasting like eight years is hardly failing tbh
Not the game, the fact that they're ending it this year when they promised to give players a 1-year heads up. Always contradicting themselves.
Well, the article here says that the remark was taken down again, so I wouldn't really call this an official statement :V It's probably a bit too early to call 'fail' on Square Enix in this case imo
Square has said many times previously that service will continue until there is no longer a demand for it.
This Square exec obviously was just talking out of his ass and doesn't really know anything about it.
Seriously why would Square kill a game when over 500k people a month are paying 15 bucks to play it?
$7.5 million a month is way more than enough to keep stagnating servers going.