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?”
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
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.
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.
I think they mean development. Don’t know if the servers are going down.