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Game Informer magazine reports that Square Enix's next-generation MMO - the company's follow-up to Final Fantasy XI - is rumoured make an appearance at E3 next June.
FFXI producer Hiromichi Tanaka told the magazine that the game "is going to be different from Final Fantasy XI". You can see a scan of the article on a Final Fantasy fan forum.
"Even though we have the same staff working on the project, we're not going to make something that'll be exactly like FFXI." It's designed to coexist with FFXI rather than replace it, apparently.
These are much the same things that Blizzard is saying about its own next MMO, the game that will follow World of Warcraft. The EverQuest and Lineage series have shown that a direct sequel to a successful, long-running MMO can just end up splitting its audience down the middle, and Square Enix is probably keen to avoid that; Final Fantasy XI, although six years old, still has a healthy subscriber-base of half a million players.
What Tanaka's comments don't make clear is if the game will carry Final Fantasy branding or not, or what formats it might appear on. Hopefully we won't need to wait longer than six months to find out.
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Bearintraining
16/12/08 @ 09:18
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I love FFXI... and I hope I'll get to love this game as well.
But I'm still holding my breath. Giving up an MMO is hard. |
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CapnCloudchaser
16/12/08 @ 09:43
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Damn, I was hoping the next FF MMO would be different from FFXI because it bored me so much.
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ConsoleCowboy
16/12/08 @ 12:05
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If they'd be really cool. And have balls. And style. Then, yes then they'd make a "The World Ends With You" MMO.
But only then. |
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Doctor_What
16/12/08 @ 13:14
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Next-generation MMO? You mean it's coming out on the PS4 and the Xbox720? They've all been out over a year, so it's not even 'new gen' any more.
Come on EG, can you please start writing 'current gen'? |
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actionfitz
16/12/08 @ 13:44
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"we're not going to make something that'll be exactly like FFXI"
good. trying to play FFIX after the likes of WoW and WAR is like chewing broken glass. such a horrbile control system and interface. here's hoping what they mean is that fans of FFIX can stay there and thier next MMO will try to appeal to western non-masochists. |
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