Ok...let me level with you here SE...

[Alerith]

I'm not really going to try to pick sides on this particular argument, but what makes single player games more valid than MMOs?

Or rather, why is it more proper for a numbered FF installment to be singleplayer? Are MMO players opinions and money any less valid?

[cidbahamut]

I'm not really going to try to pick sides on this particular argument, but what makes single player games more valid than MMOs?

Or rather, why is it more proper for a numbered FF installment to be singleplayer? Are MMO players opinions and money any less valid?

It's more that FFXI would have been more appropriately named as Final Fantasy: [subtitle of your choice goes here], rather than another iteration of the numerical sequence. An MMO is a distinctly different experience than what a single player console game offers. It's about people being stuck in their ways. I myself was pretty upset when I heard that the 11th numerical installment was going to be an MMO. I figured they should have just called it Final Fantasy Online or something, and I still think they should have done that.

It's not like every final fantasy has been tied to a number throughout the company's history. There's precedent for breaking from the numerical labeling. Anyone remember Final Fantasy Mystic Quest?