So SE has considered releasing offline single-player version of Final Fantasy XI

I just joined on a free trial last weekend while waiting for the next FFXIV expansion and it seems pretty hoppin' considering it's age. Not a lot of people hanging around the starter city I'm in, but all of my tutorial text keeps getting flushed away in all of the /yell chat. I put some trash up on the auction house and it sold within the day. So maybe it's not "dead" enough yet to pull it offline.

I know this is over a year later, but just want to say that while I never played FFXI in it's hayday,( played ffxiv for years though) but I just started FFXI on the Asura server and there's so many players, and glimpses of new story content coming. Just want to say the game is still very much alive and auction house areas and cities aren't dead! very fun so far, and feels like a very alive world.