Wonder what the chances are..Follow

For the PC, there's more of a chance now than compared to years ago (considering their recent UI revamps for PC-only). 360 is doubtful.

Maybe they could redo the character models, but doing a full blown overhaul would take a lot of time (would have to redo the armor models etc).

XI fully ported to Crystal Tools would be so damn awesome....

But sh*t, I'd need to do another PC upgrade to play it

But XIV shows that SE still can't produce a usable more modern gfx system. XIV's graphics at times are pretty cool, some of the character rendition is good, but it has a horribly close draw distance which means as you walk there's a visible stark line between low and high res. textures which 'rolls' as you move along. It's as ugly as sin. Some areas are great, I love Gridania, but this ugly low/high transition really detracts.

And let's not talk about the horrible performance it has, needing bleeding-edge gfx cards to be able to turn up the settings .. and it STILL uses the same rendering system that means hardware-based AA has zero effect and even at full there's a noticable shimmer with features such as trees as they sway.

No, I'd prefer to keep XI's dated but entirely usable system rather than XIV's which looks cool in static pictures but is dire to move around in.

I don't think rehauling the engine is a great use of resources and I'm sure it'll never happen. The game is winding down. A graphical overhaul of FFXI certainly won't bring in many new players (few people would want to join in a 10 year old game in this state) and it won't encourage people to keep playing for much longer than they otherwise would have. It's not a good financial decision for SE.

On the other hand I think a lot of players have been waiting for a game that will be the spiritual successor to XI if it ever happens and I'm sure that SE would like to bring in fresh subscribers, so I would be all for making an FFXI 2.0 (what FFXIV should have been, if SE's goal was profit anyway). I think the market is begging for a simple rehash. I think the FFXI community should make clear what they want from a new SE MMO, because as much people cling to FFXI it's not going to be around in a lively state forever.

For many years I have been waiting for a game that brings back the feelings I had for FF11 when I first played it in 2004. :(

Edited, Apr 23rd 2012 8:52pm by Dizmo

But single player games don't change with time. MMOs do. Old content becomes redundant/neglected and the focus of the game changes completely.

I'm a retired player who started in 2004. I played just about enough to get to level 75 and do a little bit of end game stuff, but I still pop by on the forums sometimes. I quit a little while before Abyssea was released (but after WotG), so I can't really talk about it. But from my perspective of being outside the game (which I assume corresponds with the perspective of the other hundreds of thousands of players who used to play but now don't - people SE presumably would like to subscribe again), these are the impressions I get:

1) Raising the level cap to 99 appeared like a final attempt to extend the life of the game by bringing back the XP and gear grind for end-gamers.
2) Old content seems to be no longer relevant judging from glances at the forums. Of course it's still there and playable, but I gather it's either no longer a challenge or finding people to do it with is near impossible (it was hard enough during EU hours even when it was new). New players are socially obliged to focus on recent content. Of course this is inevitably the case with any MMO as it ages and introduces new content and SE has understandably made it easy for new players to rush to 99 to catch up, but this brings me to (3).
3) To outsiders at least, recent content just appears to be a collection of new zones and mobs which are just recoloured versions of the old zones and mobs to facilitate the late game gear grind.

None of these things really encourage people to come back or try FFXI for the first time. From what it seems, I don't think a new player now will get as much out of the game as one starting in 2004 would, say. In the end, people want to be part of something new and experience a journey, not race past the real quality content of the game and then only get to experience grinding through stuff that was only put in as a stop gap to keep people subscribing.

Of course these are just impressions of an outsider. If the situation is different, SE should advertise so.

Edited, Apr 23rd 2012 10:16pm by Dizmo

Is 0 still considered a chance?

Dont think they will go mental like they did with XIV which actually requires some power. My PC plays most recent games with no trouble in fact the only game I have had trouble with lag is XIV.

SE will probably not do the same on XI (If they did do a overhaul) they will make it more accessible then XIV. I can hope.

Wouldnt say no to a graphics overhaul, would I buy it? Probably. Might even make me want to start a new Char or just some new job and go repeat old content just to see how it all looks.

Bit of a job though doing that though, as much as its easy to "Replace textures" there is a lot of textures there to do.

If SE wanted FFXI players to migrate why did they change the gameplay so much in XIV? :( There's hardly any partying till max level it seems now, just soloing to 50. Feels like a lonely game without any journey in comparison.