[Rumor] FFvsXIII team moved on FFXIV + Release date in...!

[Dragonheart]

From neogaf:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...72&postcount=1

RUMOR: Final Fantasy vs 13 staff moved to FFXIV#1
Got this from gamefaqs, who in return got it from:

https://twitter.com/...721654549630977
https://twitter.com/...724399109238785
https://twitter.com/...724565853769728

1) FF Versus XIII is on hold and all staff have been moved to FFXIV: A Realm Reborn until it gets released.
2) FFXIV: A Realm Reborn will release in July 2013.
3) FFXIV: A Realm Reborn releasing in July 2013 is much later than the originally planned Q1 2013. It's safe to say that Lightning Returns: FFXIII is now a Q4 2013/Q1 2014 release at the earliest. FF Versus XIII is looking likely to be a Q4 2014/Q1 2015 release.

The twitter claims that this is from a SE employee and all his previous info turned out to be true.

Good news for me:

• Even bigger staff (how many ppl are working on it O.o ? They were already 300 member + 3° part no? )

• More time to develpoment = more testing, more quality, more content at release (i hope)

Bad news for me:

• More time to wait I feel sad for PS3 user that are still waiting VS13

Ah and ofcourse the tweets have been already deleted

Discuss! (I'm mostly happy with this rumor...)

[Seth_Ahriman]

july... that is so far away <.<

[Elexia]

Haha, I knew it was only a matter of time..nothing stays on the downlow anymore.

july... that is so far away <.<

I did say to expect ARR no earlier than summer for obvious reasons..though I was just called 'pessimistic' :\

[silverdragontyr]

I heard the same timeline from a different source. Makes me wonder just what exactly will be in at the launch of ARR.

[Seth_Ahriman]

o well, im ready

[Genz]

Just throwing more people on a project doesn't magically enhance productivity :x

[EinSoFZ]

Even if this is true, it's hard to believe (or rather swallow) that FFXIV will be out of commission in an official sense for so long. Sure we'll have alpha and beta versions to keep some of us occupied but no retail version? I kind of figured they'd be working on ARR and then try to release not too long after removing the current version.

As for FF Versus XIII, I kind of figured it'd become vaporware or not come out for a very very lone time since we haven't had any new info in ages and FFXIII/FFXIII-2 have both been released.

[Maiyuu]

Who knows now. Looks like the tweets were taken away?

[Dragonheart]

Who knows now. Looks like the tweets were taken away?

yup, already deleted.

[Majidah]

6 months...?

they better be saving data in beta or I'm out the door