End Of FFXI And FFXIV???

First off I'm more concerned about people's live than this game. That being said, do you think there is a strong chance that SE will never recover from this? I'm saying this because Japan in itself has been slowly going under, and things are going to get worse before they get better I think.

This has probably been brought up several times, but I want answers to just this question so I created a post. Back when SE said the servers would be temporarily shut down for power, things were a lot better than they are now.

I for one believe this could be the end of this game. Didn't SE lose a lot of their workers for these games too?

delayed maybe, there is still money to be made so it will go on

Oh FFS..

This question gets asked like once a week, and has been for the last 2 years.

No, it's not dying, it's not going anywhere, as long as SE is able to make profit off the game (which it can) it will stand. FFXI will probably be around 10 years from now. There's absolutely no reason to shut down a game they've put so many years of work into as long as the money it brings in is more than what it costs to keep it maintained and running.

FFXI would have to be one weak *** game to have to shut down just because a disaster has forced them to temporarily shut down the servers.. Look at all the people bitching and whining about the servers being down, if this was the breaking point, no one would give a damn and just move on.

Bumping is hard apperently.

If I had a dollar for every time people feared FFXI might end, I'd be in the Bahamas enjoying a very early retirement.

why is there more than one question mark?
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Also, inb4 the whole "I just asked a question no reason to be a *** about it" argument. Yes there is, you even mentioned the fact that you're confident there has already been several threads on it, you brought it on yourself.

Because the more question marks the more important the question is obviously.. DUH!

and why do you care?

Obviously I'm not talking about SE's ability to make money off this game. But the circumstances in Japan ruining their economy as a whole, and bringing down SE. How many SE employees died, or are with family missing etc? Things like this can have quite an impact on a game I'd think. I personally don't think the SE employees are focusing on this game right now at all. It's probably one of the last things on their minds. I know that I read out of 6,000 employees at Sony only 120 showed up for work the other day.

Why do you care that I care?

well, that's just silly, isn't it???????????????????

No Slipispsycho he is right. Bumping is a very hard and painful task to do.. we should save him from that horror.

people need to start using common sense before they ask this question. 300000 + people pay square enix a month. for say they gross 50 million a month at the low end. How much you think is there overhead monthly not near the money they gross per month. ***i see this game running 20 years from now. As long is its making them a profit this game is not going anywhere. ***they could put a dusty server burried in a basment in 10 years and they will still be making a profit

And how should we be able to speculate if it will go on or not? <_<; It's either going to be shut down, or not shut down, and time will tell which is going to happen.

you all still would have came at him like this for bumping a silly thread, so that point is moot.

And? First of all the servers are shut down atm, they aren't likely to come back up until the situation is better off, meaning any work shortages Sony faced 'the other day' won't be as big as when the servers come back up. Second of all, FFXI is in what I'd call a retirement state.. They still add stuff here and there, but mostly everything is already taken care of. All that's needed is call centers (which don't even have to be inside a company building) for help, GMs for in-game problems, and maintaining the servers and such, which doesn't take nearly as many people as a game that's 'a work in progress'.

You can hire new ppl. Ppl are expendable. Thats the glory of it. If one person was soooo superior to everyone else I'm sure he would be doing something better then just working at SE, dusting off servers or somethin

These threads are dumb. Who is gonna throw away millions of dollars a month...enough already

No its not... you know how often these types of threads are made? I'm 95% sure you could find a simlar thread to post this in that was made within the past 3 days. All he had to do was bump it and no one would have cared. Making needless new threads when you already know there are threads made for the topic is stupid.

Locking as duplicate thread. Find one that fits your needs.