Will There Ever Be A 5th Expansion Pack?

Instead of update after updatea and $9.99 add-ons (which are largely lame imo) will FFXI ever see a 5th expansion pack? I've actually not played the game for over a year now but would come back in a heartbeat if a new FULL FLEDGED expansion came out.

I would think with the 10th anniversary coming up it would be perfect time to do so. It's been sooo long since one came out.

I doubt we will see a full blow expansion. On the other hand however they did bother with negotiating a larger partition size on the PS2 HDD with sony so they are probably planning something on the larger side.

Yes its coming soon

moblin maze mongers expansion

No. The MOST you might get is add-ons, hopefully something like abyssea add-ons and not crappy story add-ons which is just an excuse to pay 10 bucks for a single in item game.

they've been planning something between the size of an add-on and a full expansion, what exactly that means we don't know.

August - December

get pumped son

Proof?

I think the roadmap that SE has planned for this year is the best one yet. It's going to put console users on a more even keel with us windower users. Also looking forward to the additional macros. I wish they do come out with a full expansion though, if for nothing else to tie in all the stories or something. Idk. Hopefully though, it includes 20 additional slots to my gobbie bag^^

Theres loads of places they could use the far east, the islands to the south, frozen north, and the lands to the west. New missions areas and endgame content but noooooo they want to add a system for us to play as monsters...

All depends on the size of the development team they still have on FFXI. All of us of course salivate at the thought of another CoP type expansion (if you don't, get the *** out of my game) with beautiful storyline, difficult battles along the way, memorable NPCs, a restricted zone(s) only accessible through completion of the storyline, and solid rewards at the end of the path.

But if they simply don't have the manpower to produce anything except reskinning existing zones (see WotG, Abyssea) or adding pop points (VW) that add only new monster models (which I will be the first to agree are wickedly good), we can't expect a full blown expansion with new zones,etc.

The ideas and possibilities for an expansion have been talked about for a long time; we all know them. Its just a question whether SE feels they need to release a full "box sized" expansion in order to keep an already addicted playerbase paying them monthly or whether they need to put their resources, both money and talent, into saving FFXIV.

Celebrindal I agree with everything u just said. I actually would RATHER them focus more on XIV, it is the newer FF game. I guess they have to choose one or the other really.

A large reason FFXI deteriorated in the first place is because they deferred attention to FFXIV in the first place. Thanks.

Aye so much potential in terms of story lines but I doubt we'll ever see another full size expansion. I would have loved to have seen the Mithra home land and the land of the gigas as well but I doubt that'll happen. I think they know that for the most part a large portion of the player base is content with hunting "new" gear and collecting more crap so anything story wise would be a nice bonus but not a must for those players. As far as FFXIV goes yeah its not perfect but its far from needing saving.

Im almost 100% sure that those changes are for Windows version only, much like all the other interface/HD updates they have been doing.

I'm almost 100% sure all these changes will break windower lol >_>
Or they did it because the PS2s current partition forced their hand to either expand it or kill the console off, and they expanded it.

unlikely as they weren't full

That's one of several reasons why I don't wish to play XIV.

Wings came out 5 years ago, then it took SE 3 years to complete that expansion too.

Even if they release a new expansion (and the chance of that happening is pretty much slim to none) it will take SE at least a year (if not more) to finish the expansion and plan/release the endgame for it. Anybody wanna wait until 2014 or so?

The game is past it's prime, it's hard enough to keep chewing this corpse so for me the answer is pretty clear: no thanks.

they already have a partial planned, way to read the op and not the thread...

I need something that will bring me back to 11 and suggestion

They are also releasing the UI code to the users! There is still hope~

Did you see the roadmap post SE made had a picture mole type mobs? Down the well to moleville!!!

<tinfoil>always knew there where mole people down in everbloom hollow</tinfoil>

partial isnt a full on expansion. And really, at this point, i'd believe it when it happens.

You just don't get it.

(Yeah I can do it too)

no it isn't but it's the closest thing we'll get

I can totally see them breaking a full expansion type thing into pieces and selling them to us for $10 each.

yeah, that only works if there was something to get, your point was made on a false premise, as your information was lacking, so it is indeed you who doesn't get it

that would be acceptable

(I see what you did there)