New Expansion

As if that Deus ex Machina hasn't been overdone.....


I wish there were a "cliche harder" meme.

The item thing might not be the best example though since the limitation was in displaying more than 80 items in a list not just giving us more storage space... Unless that's not a thing any more?

If they do a new expo, Holy Knight from FFT be nice >.> or let black mages give PLD powerful element melee attacks like seen in FF8

FFIX! How dare you confuse Vivi with characters that have no class?!

I never expected to see a new expansion last year, but we have Seekers, and there's a dedicated dev team really working on upping the quality-of-life of the game and churning out solid monthly updates. In some ways, this is the most robust FFXI has ever been content-wise, at least since the CoP or ToAU heyday.

So that said, while I do not expect another expansion, I certainly won't be surprised if it happens. I agree with some of the other posters in thinking that smaller add-ons are more likely, but the way things are going, I wouldn't rule out one more expansion. Who knows.

I would, however, be shocked to see new jobs added. There's just not a lot left to mine that wouldn't be redundant with existing jobs. The one job I'd love to see added is a Mime - I think FFXI is designed in such a way that a Mime could actually function, although I'm not sure how the leveling process would go (perhaps you could add a skill from any jobs you've done the 75 limit break for, or reached 99 on). But it'd be neat. So who knows.

The way FFXIV is rolling...I'm expecting them to give it at least a graphics overhaul to get more people to play it. They remade XIV...look how successful that became?

Things I'd like to see in a new expansion:

- New lands to explore, with timed/lottery/popped NM's

- New BCNM-type battlefields, with separate battlefields for solo+trust/fellow, party, and alliance

- New job that is somewhat customizable - upon unlocking the job, you'd be given a fixed amount of maximum skill points, and would be able to distribute them as you see fit. You'd be able to pick your primary weapon class, pick support skills, etc, and allocate skill ratings to each - within the confines of the skill points you have available. You'd be able to choose your own abilities and spells also, but everything would ultimately have a cost.

- New(ish) playable race - Male Mithras!

No, thanks.

why? it is literally the worst feature the game has ever had.

Seeing how things have been going lately I predict that the next expansion will have some sort of point system with a weekly cap where it takes at least 4 weeks to complete 1 piece of gear. :3 But if they do the far east I'll buy every copy i can find T.T. Needs more Tenzen!

I'll be on tonight! And I ain't part-time...just busy. Almost summer!

Yes Please

If they added a job I hope it is the polar opisite of sam. Use magic to skill chain. And the mbs would put added affects on monsters.

So, Blue Mage? Granted, BLU DMG really isn't on par with SAM, but still uses magic to SC

ftfy. SCH uses actual magic to SC, BLU still uses what are essentially weaponskills that cost MP.

What they need is a bundling deal that entices FFXIV-only players to play FFXI when they get bored.


As far as another expansion goes, I could see them maybe doing one for the far north. It would hook into SoA pretty well and would be easier to design than the South or Far East.

Bring back $7~8 FFXI subs if you have an active XIV ID attached to your SE Account.

One thing to realize is that FFXI's user base is highly unlikely to grow - no amount of rebranding, relaunching, or retooling can make it a new game again, like they did with XIV. XI is what it is at this point, but SE seems to realize that the playerbase it has is sticking around and fairly devoted. As far as declining MMOs go, SE is treating us extremely well.

Mechanics-wise, I don't know if there's a lot more they can do with the game, although I've been surprised over the past year.

To their credit, though, SE has plenty of room to continue to grow XI. The ilevel system introduced via Adoulin allows for more expansions or content that will push beyond the current "cap" of 119, if they desire. The storyline of Vana'diel also leaves plenty of room to expand to. Amazingly, while in decline, XI is further from "death" than it has been for awhile.

I find it incredibly odd and misguided that SE has not allowed some sort of decreased subscription rate for XI and XIV subscribers, though. That just seems like a huge oversight. Oh well.

lemme put it to you this way. I pay $8 a month for XIV. XI is $13 (per account, but can't balance sub fee around people with multiple accounts so it's irrelevant). See the problem here? They should at least give us 3/6/9/12 month packages like XIV does that lowers the cost for buying more at a time.

Yes, I think the Mithra homeland is next although I would prefer the far east. New jobs will be Time mage and chemist.

What exactly would make time mage or chemist realistic for FFXI? I honestly can't understand some of the choices we have already.

It doesn't have to be realistic? You reailze people said the EXACT same thing about the idea of GEO and RUN, before they were even a reality? Who cares, its a FF game and people like choices and vanity choices like new job looks/spells.

Haste 2/Hastega 2 and Slow 2, so RDM can be kicked in the balls again

I'm just curious what it would do with the mechanics of FFXI, like how do you see it operating? I loved time mage and chemist in tactics, they made sense in that world. I agree about RUN and GEO, though they implemented GEO in a quite different way than it historically worked.

They could change the way it works for the game in some way like you said for GEO. Chemist using items to mix and create heals or nukes or enfeebles. Time Mage idk honestly, but I always wanted it! I could see them doing Morpher but that might step on BLU/BST too much lol, maybe they could use monstrosity mobs to turn into and use for content.

I originally was hoping sch would be more like calculator, that's a job that could be kinda cool, too.

They never released Tenzen's land did they?

The Far East, nope. Still unvisited.

Take us to the future in the next expansion!

It's the year 2029 and the virtually indestructible automatons have hunted all five races to near extinction. Yada, yada, yada, Odin did it.