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Ray Barnholt
@rdbaaa.space

eventually "developing FFXI" is going to be one of those longstanding japanese crafts where only a few aged masters remain and they do the NHK documentary about the one guy who's the youngest apprentice at 47 and still gets up at the crack of dawn to tend to the mill

AUTOMATON WEST@automatonwest.bsky.social

“The sharp player decline we expected never came.” Final Fantasy 11 director talks about recent surge in players and challenges the MMORPG faces due to server limitations and lack of manpower automaton-media.com/en/news/the-...

automaton-media.com“The sharp player decline we expected never came.” Final Fantasy 11 director talks about recent surge in players and challenges the MMORPG faces due to server limitations and lack of manpower  - AUTOM...Final Fantasy XI producer and director Yoji Fujito gives an update on the MMORPG as it celebrates its 24-year-anniversary.

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Yasri
@therealyasri.bsky.social

Only big things that they need to update imo are the ui/ux along with keyboard/controller. Leave in a option to use the old style for people. Make servers for different eras would be cool too.

Bunhamut
@bunhamut.bsky.social

I believe they said recently they will have to end development on 11 soon, but not by choice. The game is built on the Playstation 2 devkit, and there simply aren't any more left in the world they can keep scrounging for parts. It's kind of tragic. Maybe they will find a workaround.