Looking at the people who no longer play the game, most of them stopped playing from The Voracious Resurgence (2020 onwards), and the numbers decline as you go further back in time.

However, there was a relatively large number of people outside of Japan who answered "Launch to before the expansions (2002 – onward)," so it was rather impressive to see that even players who have been away from the game for so long have still been following the game's developments and were aware of this survey.

Although the login rate is quite high, there were still 15% of respondents who said that they had not logged in to the game during the past year, indicating that they have essentially left the game for some reason.

Also of note is that the majority of users fall between 2 to 3 hours per gaming session in Japan and 4 hours or more overseas, showing a clear difference in playing styles between the two regions.

However, upon looking into the reasoning behind their responses, we found that the majority of players tended to use the same words in their replies, regardless of their satisfaction level.

The most commonly used words were "solo play," "game content," and "time." As we read the comments, we noticed that many of them wanted us to expand the quantity and breadth of solo play activities, and that they wanted us to do away with entry restrictions based on the number of people for some in-game content.

There were also multiple references to Sortie, with many respondents expressing concern that the content had become too fixated on certain jobs and types of party members.

Many players also replied that they are unable to actively recruit party members due to their individual circumstances, which forces them to play the game solo. Similarly, some players stated that playing the game by themselves limits their ability to access the endgame content, making it hard for them to find things to do within the game. As such, it seems that factors such as these also influenced their responses to the question about the gameplay itself, at least to a certain extent.

If you look at the reasons for their responses, players mentioned that the login campaigns feature many fixed rewards that are swapped in and out on a regular basis, causing anything other than rewards consisting of 500 points to be a bit repetitive. They also wish to see more upgrade materials for their equipment, such as the most powerful weapons and also empyrean armor.

Additionally, numerous players from both Japan and overseas want to see the campaigns feature even more items, including some that boost exemplar points, specific currencies for certain in-game content, and also the items that are needed to participate in various battle content.

On the other hand, some of the reasons cited for players' dissatisfaction with the campaigns included the repetitive nature of certain campaigns, a lack of campaigns that were related to more current in-game content, and the gap between the campaigns' quality when the more lucrative campaigns were absent from the campaign lineup.

The most common requests included a campaign for acquiring exemplar points, as well as new campaigns based on Sortie and Odyssey.

The following five categories received many responses from both Japanese and overseas players, so let's take a closer look at the comments received for each one.

This question was aimed at players who have been away from the game. They were able to select as many responses as needed.

Of special interest is the number one answer from both Japan and overseas. The main thing that could bring Japanese players back to the game was "changes to their lifestyle," meaning things such as finding additional time for gaming. Meanwhile, the most popular answer overseas was "lower monthly subscription fees."

Lower monthly subscription fees also ranked highly among Japanese players, and upon examining the issue further, we noticed that numerous respondents wanted to see a discount for subscribing to both FFXI and FFXIV at the same time. Speaking of FFXIV, there were also many players who would like to see the graphics in FFXI receive an upgrade.

Overseas, the second most popular reply was "Other." As we looked into the reasons behind this answer, we discovered that many of them wanted the game to create an “FFXI Classic” server that would recreate the game as it was during its Level 75 era. This response echoes that of many similar requests that have come from North American players for quite some time now.

The addition of new scenarios and quests also received a large number of votes. There was strong demand for new stories from not only current players, but also those who have been away from the game for a while as well.