PS3 Exclusive: Final Fantasy XIV announced as an MMO
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Alan Ng
Posted on: June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments
In what has to be one of the biggest announcements of the night, Sony has shocked everyone by revealing Final Fantasy XIV as an MMO game, scheduled for release some time next year.
That’s not all either as the game will be exclusive to the Playstation 3 and will be released in 2010, meaning that Playstation 3 owners will recieve not one, but TWO Final Fantasy titles in 2010.
We definately didn’t see this coming. Sony and Square showed off a teaser trailer for the game and as you can expect, it looks amazing. We’ll try to upload the footage from E3 when we get it.
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Here’s some more info:
“The development for FFXIV started 4 or 5 years ago with primary ideas. Development started a few years ago, while FFXI was still being supported. FFXI will continue to be supported. There is another year of content planned. There are no plans for the near future to stop development on FFXI. ”
“As with WoW, we want to aim a bit for the casual user. However, we don’t want to make a copy of WoW. We believe we will have things that are unique and will stand out from that game. ”
“All of the knowledge and experience we gained from FFXI will be used in the development of FFXIV. At the launch, we intend to have content for solo players as well as large-scale battles. We want a wide-variety from the start.”
“The current plans are to have worldwide servers that are cross-platform and cross-region. We will do a beta test and look at the balance and player experience. We want to look for a good balance between region and cross-region play. ”
“We envision users that will hopefully play XI one day and XIV another. They will be independent, but users are free to play both. ”
“We are trying to implement a lot of new systems that other MMO’s haven’t used in the past.”
We’ll see how this goes - Square Enix needs to step up their customer service a notch or five before I buy another MMO from them. When you can lose years of ‘work’ in mere seconds because of hacks, and they don’t bat an eyelash, I have serious difficulty throwing more money at them.