I’d like to see them do an asset re-use, reimagine as a single player offline game at some point.
During the campaign period, those who have subscribed to PlayOnline/FINAL FANTASY XI service in the past are eligible to play FINAL FANTASY XI free of charge! Experience the world of Vana'diel now with a variety of new content that has been added throughout the seventeen years of development, along with many system improvements to match your playstyle!
Campaign Period
From Friday, August 9, 2019, at 1:00 a.m. (PDT)
to Monday, August 19, at the same hour.
Eligibility (Account/Character Requirements)
To be eligible, you must meet the following requirements. You can check each of the requirements here.
1. Your PlayOnline account is transferred to Square Enix account.
2. You must have an active PlayOnline/FINAL FANTASY XI service account.
3. Character status under the inactive character options must be set to "Cancelled" status as of
Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. (PDT).
Instead of using a Username/Password there's 3 different login fieldsThe multiple login data requirements reminds me of when I tried to fire up Guild Wars randomly and it requires you to name one of the characters on the account and like wtf how am I supposed to remember that like a decade later. And you can't actually get this resolved, there's pages upon pages of people talking about how support, after finally responding six months later, demands impossible things to recover the accounts like box UPCs, even if you bought it through Steam and all kinds of other stuff. :lol
Everquest of all things is continuing to receive expansions.
@TIMU apparently custom content/modded FFXI servers are already a thing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXIPrivateRealms/comments/7kyvk2/looking_for_a_list_of_ffxi_private_servers_check/
Everquest of all things is continuing to receive expansions. SOE/DBC has wanted to kill it multiple times. It arguably outlived Everquest II as a priority since that had to go F2P all the way back in 2011 to keep going. The original still sells subscriptions and last I knew paid expansions.
Reading about this login stuff reminds me of how bad it was back in the day when I got 10 free hours to play FF XI with some graphic card, but they counted a bunch of the downloading times and like that still was barely enough time to get to any actual content which you had to run everywhere to get to.Instead of using a Username/Password there's 3 different login fieldsThe multiple login data requirements reminds me of when I tried to fire up Guild Wars randomly and it requires you to name one of the characters on the account and like wtf how am I supposed to remember that like a decade later. And you can't actually get this resolved, there's pages upon pages of people talking about how support, after finally responding six months later, demands impossible things to recover the accounts like box UPCs, even if you bought it through Steam and all kinds of other stuff. :lol
The community here is very nice.
I mentioned something in the /yell chat about how gouged some of the auction prices were for early stuff, and I had multiple people privately messaging me wanting to give me tons of expensive items just so that I could get all the inventory upgrades for free immediately. I ended up paying for just a few items that I needed, but everyone was really nice and helpful even though the chat normally is overrun with auto-translate macros asking for help with end-game or selling rare items.
Had a lot of friendly people message me as well when asking if I could hide chat in cutscenes (you can't) just the other day.
Even in an age past "social MMO", a lot of the people that still cling onto the game 2 decades later are still really nice and helpful to new players, and that's a pretty awesome experience in of itself.