Final Fantasy XI Is The Most Profitable In The Franchise

Second job actually is announced the day after Geomancer – its Rune Fencer; a tank class that specializes in magic defense.  So we have Paladin – phys. def, Ninja for evasion tanking, and Rune Fencer for magic defense specialization.  That brings the class total up to 22.

Additional details on the expansion are sparse, but include:
- Geomancer and Rune Fencer jobs

- new continent in the far west, with a focus on exploration and reclaiming the land and making it suitable for adventure. Building outposts and helping raising the overall cultivation % is an example of something to do.

- Player island farms that players can use to have a small farm for themselves

- Dungeons that players unlock by finding parts of statues and assembling them. Dungeon contents and rewards are based on the parts used to assemble the statue.

- Full campaign and story (each expansion has had amazing story content, very excited)

- UI improvements. For a game that launched in 2002 on the PS2 (in japan), and was ported to windows later, this is huge.  I nearly fell off my seat when they started showing off movable UI elements.

- Monster vs Player PvP system.  It may come out before the expansion in an update, but this is cool because FFXI has been primarily all PVE with some stand alone PvP that was just a side category with no rewards.  This is going to have structured rewards systems and players will be able to assume the role of monsters (including iconic ones like the Behemoth monsters) to face players in the field, or other monsters if they wish.

I haven’t played FFXI for an extended length of time in years, but as a former veteran of the game they sure are making it hard not to come back to Vana’diel.  I’ll need to check it out for sure.

I know a lot of people that are ANGRY saying how ff7 will make a lot of money. This is another reinforcing piece of evidence that a good mmo with a good loyal player base, (ff11 didnt embrace f2p!) is still more profitable than a game that was a huge hit like ff7 and ff10.

BTW: ff10 is loved more in ff7 in Japan. In fact, ff7 didnt even make the list past the favorite games behind the DQ series, ff4 and ff6. So I would hazard a guess that the spinoff and movie for ff7 were for an western audience, where the game was popular.

FF VII the “biggest sell out game in history”? Wouldn’t that be something like…I don’t know…maybe Mario Brothers??

It does not surprise me one bit its the most profitable.

Look at it. You pay for it every single month. In 5/6 months you payed the price of a full other FF game. and you keep paying. You pay for multiple chars and other things (or did in the past if i remember it right).

Its been out for so long… makes sense its the one who made the most money. and will keep being that.

People says More MMO’s should be more like WoW.. But i say More MMO’s should be more like FFXI. You go through content in a short period of time in WoW and people get bored and QQ… it takes a LONG time to go through content in FFXI and people never get bored or QQ if the content is to hard. So the real question is whos doing it right??

Yes this is the first major expansion in a while but it’s not the first bit of new content in 6 years. “Expansion” in FFXI means addition to the world. Since WOTG, there’s been abyssea which provided TONS to do for a solid 3 years. It made it possible to play multiple jobs without having to grind needlessly for months. It really gave life to the game and was really linkshell oriented. That’s when the level cap first raised from level 75. After Abyssea came Voidwatch. The beginning of voidwatch was really fun and competitive. The reward rate for Voidwatch is horrid, however. Trying to buy time to release these “upgrades” to previous content, it is not uncommon to hear stories of fighting multiple monsters 300+ times without getting the item they were after. It is a good strategy to milk current content until the update is released. FFXI players, above anything, have proven to be masochists. It’s caused a stale frustration and these “upgraded” older events aren’t offering much to seek after. Nyzul Isle offers great rewards, but it is the one event that skill alone can’t get you a win. You have to hope and rely on luck. Einherjar and Limbus updates bring up a question I really can’t get over. You have existing gear. You introduce new gear. The new gear is inferior to your existing gear. Why would people spend time going after something when there’s better items out there? It will be a very stale run for ffxi players until this expansion comes out.

I play it time to time,

while there has been no major expansion there have been several mini expansions or “addons” as they put it, which have been kind of over prised imo, 6 of them $10 each. All of them pretty much recycle old content and just put you into another “time frame” lol.

Additionally lots of quarterly updates, i think they do a big patch every 3-4 months (like swtors 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc..)

This is the first time I have read something here and face palmed at the lack of knowledge on your guys part. Tanaka leaving is an AMAZING thing and many people will agree. Matsui was the one in charge back in the abyssea days which pretty much revived FFXI for MANY MANY people. After Tanaka took back over again it just went down hill.

Why was Tanaka gone from FFXI for that year? FFXIV…and that obviously went well. So well they stuck him back on FFXI. Well that didn’t last well either.

So again, Tanaka leaving = Amazing thing for players and community. Matsui actually listened to test server / player suggestions.