New FF MMO

[Freya]

If you want to make a huge amount of money you would and one example of a game doesn't really pull in the point and the reason that XI and Wow doesn't have more players is particularly because a lot of people agree that that is too much. Everybody might not have money like you and I know I don't. Especially in these times it's a bit ridiculous to continue to charge that amount. People would prefer to have options. Other companies have managed to make new content free for download on some of their games. So I know it doesn't cost a whole lot to add in new content unless you're waiting for a while and are releasing a lot at one time.

Omey, DM... WoW has 11.5 million subscribers... o.o

One thing I think FFXI really has over MMO's at the moment is the great amount of story and lore. The missions are great, they are challenging (and not in a time-sync way either), and they provide a great way to experience the numorous story archs that the game offers so far (there's three more story archs coming out soon). The cutscenes are very well executed too, with great cinematography and all. The only downside, and this is SE's fault, is that the history/lore is only supplied in outside material that they haven't bothered to translate. Thankfully someone on a popular FFXI forum has been translating a lot of it and it's very good stuff.

Honeybun, WoW has lots of lore. It spawned from three previous RTS games in which the 3rd had an expansion. Also they have mangas and comic books as well as Novels. The thing they get right is sharing their lore so you don't have to go onto some forum where someone translated it :P

You can't state that it has more lore when... WoW has been working on theirs for lil over a decade =x

I guess I'd love for SE to provide better customer service for their next MMO, and also provide everything to the English customers. Oh it'd also be nice if SE recognized players as actual customers.

Any company that has a lot of subscribers can't pay too much attention, when you do that you'll end up doing what Star Wars Galxies did. Listened to their players too much and screwed it up trying to gear it to each fan :P

Edit2: Lekana, a lot of that information about FFXI is misinformed but I can agree with some, especially if you are looking at all the new things FFXI has brought to the table in the last year-year and a half. There's plenty of insentive to get to the cap level without having to do end-game now. There's heaps of casual player mechanics that have been implemented, and they've made it a lot easier to get to the cap level now. There are many low-man instanced dungeons you can do for some great gear, and they have even introduced things you can do to get good gear instead of camping overpopulated Notorious Monsters.

You're an XI fanboi huh? Seems like it's so. I played the game early on in it's development. The problem they had is that it took them nearly 7 years to make it funner for players. Sure they have it in there now, but they didn't start with it.

Also sweetie, Guild Wars was actually a pretty good game, it just didn't have as much as say WoW so people started to go for games like XI and WoW. What's the point of playing a MMORPG when there is not MMO to it? I'd just buy a normal FF if that was the case.

The reason WoW is king right now is because they do a lot of things right. And if XI was so great wouldn't it be king?

15,000 tickets sold in 15 mins for $100 a piece for Blizzcon. Believe me I was there. You don't get that kind of dedication just because it's easy. :P

EDIT: and omey Guild Wars IS an MMO...