FFXI's Final Day

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Celvantes

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It's the day before the servers are shut off... what would you spend it doing?

I would do one of two things... go on a final world tour (especially Sky, Lufaise Meadows, Misreaux Coast, Sanctuary of Zi'tah, Kahzam), and/or mess around on a new job in the dunes with good friends.

Sunset in the dunes would be a fitting place to end the game.
 
h4xx.
 
Delevel all my jobs, homepointing in Zi'Tah outside of Ro'Maeve can get that done quickly.
 
Kanash said:
I went to Blueblade fell(sp?) and went afk until night time. Then forced a D/C.
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This is pointless if you're a-ok with the Fomors. Fomor don't aggro me at all. Except their retarded cousins in Aht Urghan.

Chasym said:
they they announce, we decided to go another year!!!....fuck!
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I'd have long quit before the "final day." I mean, shit.. Everquest is still going. They have A NEW expansion in the works with A NEW race. And <100k Subscribers. I reinstalled over the summer and used some of the free play time I've allocated to tool around on the two new servers they put up, and the server I played on originally (Luclin) was fucking barren. It was even merged with another server at some point in time.
 
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I'd probably watch all the CG from rise of zilart and cop and treasures and whatever else they have out when it happens..



I'd call a gm and have them mpk a zone
 
Ask my moogle out on a date. He always start dancing every time I change job and end up naked... I think he's gay.
 
Think back on how I quit several years before that day actually came. o_O
 
Skaw said:
This is pointless if you're a-ok with the Fomors. Fomor don't aggro me at all. Except their retarded cousins in Aht Urghan.
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They agro if you sit down or rest. Had that happen before. But then again, I havent removed the hate ever since I completed CoP.
 
Kanash said:
They agro if you sit down or rest. Had that happen before. But then again, I havent removed the hate ever since I completed CoP.
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0 hate = absolutely no aggro. Even sitting down or resting.
 
Skaw said:
This is pointless if you're a-ok with the Fomors. Fomor don't aggro me at all. Except their retarded cousins in Aht Urghan.



I'd have long quit before the "final day." I mean, shit.. Everquest is still going. They have A NEW expansion in the works with A NEW race. And <100k Subscribers. I reinstalled over the summer and used some of the free play time I've allocated to tool around on the two new servers they put up, and the server I played on originally (Luclin) was fucking barren. It was even merged with another server at some point in time.
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This isn't EQ... I doubt that at current rates all the servers they have up now will be around 1 year from now. I give FFXI 5 years before SE pull the plug. It just wasn't thought out enough.
 
Shaunessy said:
This isn't EQ... I doubt that at current rates all the servers they have up now will be around 1 year from now. I give FFXI 5 years before SE pull the plug. It just wasn't thought out enough.
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No, it's not. But Square-Enix has other sources of income that can keep the game going with a low subscriber rate. SOE does not, but yet EverQuest remains. And has a lot more active server content than FFXI, requiring more upkeep. FFXI will still be profitable with a subscriber count well below EQ's current amount.

Square-Enix has their many franchises they can theoretically pull reserves for the game from the profits. SOE only really has EverQuest. Star Wars Galaxies was killed. EverQuest 2 is less popular than EverQuest 1. PlanetSide has been on the backburner ever since Core Combat, but even then it didn't pull many subscribers to begin with. Does anyone even play The Matrix Online? EQ's subscriber count peaked below FFXI's peak(550k vs. 650k.) As well, it's decline has not been as sharp as EQ's. July '05 to July '06, EQ suffered almost 300,000 subscriptions. FFXI only 150,000 and has remained pretty steady around the 500,000 mark up until the mass cheater/rmt bannings.

A lot of people forget that this is the 4th biggest subscription-based MMO in the world. Behind WoW(#1,) Lineage(#2) and Lineage II(#3.) Considering it has no Korean servers, it might as well be #2.

EverQuest has been around for going on 8 years. FFXI has been around for going on 5, and is already showing signs of atleast matching EQ's current streak. Their subscriber increase trend is largely the same, with FFXI going higher in count, but FFXI's drop-off is no where near as quick as EQ's. Yet, anyway.

In the two years since EQ's peak, 400,000 people have quit it. In the year since FFXI's "peak," only that 100. In the same time since EQ's peak, FFXI has lost a "net" of 50,000 subscribers(barring the last few months.) I see EQ stopping at a decade old. I see FFXI matching that with ease. Hell, Ultima Online *IS* hitting 10 years old.
 
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I'd probably just sit staring at my monitor thinking, "why the hell did I just blow the last three years of my life on this game...?"

Wait, I do that now.

Good friends and good times though. I'd certainly miss it.
 
Continue playing wow and hit trip up like a used car salesman until he cracked and joined me on the dark side.
 
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