That's what ffxi mobile gonna be

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this was funnier before everyone copied me

No it isn't. SE have already said it's a completely different game.

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Zerion

I was hoping it was a bad joke.

I have a feeling FFXI Mobile will be something akin to Summoner's War - as such I will never touch it.

Nintendo Switch {When?}

Sorry for bumping but I just wondered about that as well...
Do they know about community servers? Definitely, it was even on tech news several times. Do they know about nas specifically? I think if they know about any specific server it has to be nas because it has a larger player base than all other community servers combined and is even bigger than some of the retail servers.
I think that the bigger a company gets the more it acts like a robot, e.g. Nintendo taking down every site posting NES ROMs even though they haven't been selling those games for two decades and have no intention to sell them again. Yes, that gives them a lot of bad rep but at that size they don't seem to care. I just wonder where S-E is on that scale.

Probably not assuming it doesn't get monetized and don't draw too much attention to it.

FFXI was originally made for the PS2 and long dead on that platform, it's been kept alive on PC and 360 but drastically reduced in capacity over the years... it's basically a dead game on life support held together by a skeleton crew of staff so it's not really worth their time.

It probably does depend on how many people would have played retail at this point if nas (or any community servers) weren't available. I believe that the answer is not a lot - there are probably two major reasons for people being here instead of retail: (a) they want the classic era game and/or (b) they hardly have time to play anymore and don't think that a few hours a week are worth the subscription. Neither would switch to retail if nas were to shut down and I guess that profits from the few who do are "too few to be worthwhile". If they had a classic server they could bring a lot more people who play on servers like nas but as you said that will require development costs that are probably not worthwhile as well.
Still that's not my major point here - the real point is that larger companies do not really "play logically" when it comes to their IP - What would Nintendo gain by investing time and money to whack-a-mole every website posting a link to a ROM of the original Super Mario? They wouldn't see a penny from an increase of the game's sales simply because they don't sell that game anymore and haven't been selling it for decades - and yet they insist on doing that no matter how bad PR they get for it.
Bottom line - if you ask me what can happen to threat the existence of community servers, I would say acquisition and/or change of ownership of S-E, especially if the new owner is a multi-billion dollar media company.

360 version was shut down I think.

The real answer is that we have no idea what SE will do. SE has million dollar lawyers on payrol and sending a C&D letter to Nas is free for them to do. Nas could get sued for quite a chunk of change for using the final fantasy IP on his own servers (if he doesnt reply to the C&D and shut everything down). If the server is hosted in America this makes it even easier for them to shutdown.

Nintendo is going out of it's way to shut down rom websites and blizzard sends out C&D letters to private servers quite often. It's not rare for this to happen and you cant blame them for wanting to protect their own IP (even more so since a new mobile game is getting released under the final fantasy xi name).

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