I'm new to this community, and decided to join for two main reasons:
One, I'm a dearly enraptured CT series fan, and would love to help the cause for a new installment in anyway I'm able.
Two, I also enjoy the alternate evil, and play FFXI, and thought I could offer helpful insight into the game itself, as well as it's many forums.
On the topic of FFXI's latest expansion, it's entitled "Wings of the Goddess" and involves going back in time to what was known as the Crystal War. I personally am excited to see how the remaining CT team handles time travel in FFXI, but am saddened that they are not permitted to work on the type of time travel I'm sure they've always wanted to.
As for FFXI numbers; they're steady and actually growing slightly. WoW has by far more subscribers for many reasons, including heavy advertising, something of which SE does not do for FFXI anymore. People as a whole in the FFXI community are excited for the upcoming expansion and ability to travel back in time.
One interesting thing to bring to light are the similarities FFXI and CT share, such as monsters, characters, and storylines. Compare a Nu to a Goobue or the Zilart to the Kingdom of Zeal.
Ultimately, the Zilart who were more intellectually advanced than the earth dwellers, arose their great city into the sky, as they funneled the energy from the planet's crystals. Their grand achievement was an undersea palace, their capital which is dubbed "Al'Taieu" in the game but called "sea" for short, as it was a part of the planet's surface, which was effectively either dimensionally relocated or sunken to the bottom of the ocean, where it remains forever protected and timeless, housing the main palace of the Zilartian royalty.
The CT team is at work, however subtly.
