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A new year and a new development cycle means a new "roadmap" has been released by Square to give an indication of where the game is headed in the long term. So most likely you've already read about the info yourself, but just in case you haven't here's a link to read all about it:

Final Fantasy XI Roadmap for 2011 Link

Essentially it boils down to 3 large updates and 1 mini update. And over the year-long span it focuses on these main things:

• -Implementing the final level cap increases to 99
• -Job adjustments
• -Voidwatch system
• -Grounds of Valor system.
• -New battlefields
• -"Dungeon crawling"
• -"The Last Stand"
• -Adventurer Growth elements. 
  
• -Implementing a daily reward system
• -Reworking Dynamis and Walk of Echoes
• -Implementing final Fellowship additions
• -Additions to Magian Trials
• -Monster and NM distribution and respawn adjustments
• -Additions and adjustments to synthing and synergy.
• -Enhancing the game via tweaks like AH merges and congestion relief.
• -Increasing treasure-casket areas.
• -Opening the test server to player testing.