Final Fantasy XIV seemed to be the one big surprise from E3 that didn't leak before the conferences. Earlier today, SquareEnix held a Q&A session for their next MMO effort. Here's the info that was discussed:
FFXIV News + There will be a simultaneous worldwide release, with English, Japanese, German and French versions at launch. No plans for Spanish as of yet. + PS3/PC at launch, possibility of porting to other systems later on. + Produced by Hiromichi Tanaka (FFXI Producer), Direceted by Nobuaki Komoto + Nobuo Uematsu will return for Final Fantasy XIV + Art Direction by Akihiko Yoshida (FFXII, Tactics)
FFXIV as it relates to FFXI & PlayOnline + FFXI (Vana'diel) and FFXIV (Eorzea) are completely different game worlds, there is no relation. + PlayOnline will not be used with FFXIV, but you will be able to transfer your FFXI Friend List over to FFXIV. + SquareEnix Security Tokens purchased for FFXI will carry over to FFXIV. + FFXI & PlayOnline will continue well into 2010.
FFXIV Gameplay + Will be more casual friendly, including solo content. Battles will range from many vs. many to many vs. one. + Job system will be "fairly different" from FFXI. "The player can grow & develop in a more natural way without putting too much weight on the player." + Content will range from solo to very large groups, and range from casual to hardcore. + Beta testing is planned, but there are no concrete details as of yet. + No pricing structure has been decided yet.
And that's about all the info we can squeeze in at the moment~
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sounds amazing really, i might have to get it someday.
From the sound of things, mainly the fact that I can Solo if I wanted to... i think they have a new member... but why not on PlayOnline?... What was the point of releasing PO to now have something diff for XIV?... and i hope the leveling and reliance on money is changed to be more casual friendly as "casual" was the word used above :)
They shouldn't charge at all at least for the PS3. The PSN can definatly do the job
The servers and bandwidth required to run a MMO is extremely expensive so its not gonna be free.
I'm curious to see what the new jobs will be as the classic Final Fantasy jobs have been pretty much static since FFV.
I told myself I would never play another mmo after WoW but...