Still Grinding Out Content
Despite the announcement last year that Final Fantasy XI would no longer receive any content updates… the game has continued to receive content updates. Granted, there probably won’t ever be another expansion that adds new areas and jobs and the such, but that doesn’t mean FFXI is going stagnant either despite what many were led to believe by Square Enix themselves. If you’re going to be misled, it’s at least better to make things sound worse than it is and then over deliver right?
Monthly updates to the game still exist which feature small job tweaks as the developers inch ever closer to job balance. More importantly though, the development team showed earlier this year that they are still willing to create brand new battle content. The aforementioned Ambuscade is proof that Final Fantasy XI could still get new things to do, it’s just going to be created using preexisting assets. A fair compromise for a game as old as FFXI that already has a successor of sorts via Final Fantasy XIV.
Final Fantasy XI is not going to ever return to the spotlight. It’s an old game. However, FFXI is still as fun, if not more fun than it has ever been, and even if the game is in its retirement home phase, it’s aging with class and dignity.
