Is FFXI Dying?

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Additionally, crafted gear for early raiding or latecomer catchup. The prestige in XIV doesn't come from doing something 200 times until you get the respective currencies or get lucky with RNG for a boost in player power, the prestige comes from figuring out the content and doing it first in as minimal gear as they tune for it to be doable in. Or from having a shiny weapon that the hardest prestige content drops, or speedrunning the content and doing the highest DPS to post on a third party logging website. The equivalent to Master Trial weapons over in XIV are very coveted and the draw to doing that content is both the experience of doing the content itself for the sake of it as well as having a shiny weapon to show off.

It's a very different game model that puts the content at the forefront and not the job or equipment. As sort of an exaggerated example, if you don't have an Aegis in XI, there's just going to be some content that you can't expect to do regardless of how good you are at PLD or know the content in question. Because in XI's model, having that Aegis in the first place is considered part of being "good at PLD".

There's benefits to both approaches and it's largely a subjective matter of taste. I will agree that it's cheaper to throw some new stats and math and a singular gimmick on an otherwise mostly reused NM and put it in a box instead of design a wholly new 10-20 minute encounter with a new mechanic happening every 30-60s when you need to design more fights. XIV's model demands bespoke content and encounters while XI can just reuse the Vagary NMs like 5 times with a slightly different twist each time and it's content, especially if you ask people to do it 200 times.

Their willingness to not upset casuals has actually caused some of their most recent content in the Variant/Criterion dungeons to be unappealing, because they give so few things that people care about that they may as well be fruitless endeavors once you've done them for their story.

I'll give you it for tree-fiddy! OMG did I say TREE, I'm so sorry! U need to make new one. oh nvm it's full of boomies and bears now.

XI is from an era where the psychology used upon you was to keep you subbed as long as possible (so they turned the most serious hardcore players into celebrities), in XIV and Wow they just take it for granted you'll stay subbed and concentrate on cash shop psychology.

From a business standpoint for a public company, XI does everything wrong and XIV is an Olympic gold medal winner. In terms of monetization and player psychology anyway.

XI players back in the day, used to stand around town in busy areas to show off their gear. I still remember the first person I saw in full sky gear in upper jeuno and this was 20 years ago.

On XIV the players who buy the newest cash shop stuff act the same exact way, and buying the new cosmetics the fastest (to the point they almost crash the server with their impatience) is their prime concern.

The developers successfully reworked the prestige players sought by working for the hardest to get gear and getting it first, into buying the newest outfits the fastest. They actively try to stomp out "sweaty" behavior, because it's bad for business. Even this term is astroturfed from the companies (mainly blizz).

Companies don't want their players to value in-game achievements, they want them to value ones that cost $.

I think she still have so much life left if anyone would care for the old girl.