SE making NEW MMO

[Zenaku]

It's funny how some of you saying there new mmo going to fail due to FFXIV failing and if Tanaka is leader of the team you wont play it. Is it me or is a company not in title for a bad release of a game? there only human and Tanaka just took the blame for the Company there no need to blame him for the stockholder/CEO for wanting the game to be release in 2010. If this game was release in Q3 of 2011 and had a beta sense Q2 of 2010 this game would have been better. But guess what? the game is pretty much is in Beta.

[Scherwiz]

Why is everyone assuming the MMO would come from the old squaresoft based games? There are old Enix and Eidos series out there that are untouched. Clearly Dragon Quest makes the best choice... but why would SE Want 3 high fantasy Major MMO? Star Ocean makes much more sense to me. Also Final Fantasy Tactics/Vagrant Story Ivalice > FFTA, FFTA2, and that so called Final Fantasy game number 12's Ivalice.

[Scherwiz]

It's funny how some of you saying there new mmo going to fail due to FFXIV failing and if Tanaka is leader of the team you wont play it. Is it me or is a company not in title for a bad release of a game? there only human and Tanaka just took the blame for the Company there no need to blame him for the stockholder/CEO for wanting the game to be release in 2010. If this game was release in Q3 of 2011 and had a beta sense Q2 of 2010 this game would have been better. But guess what? the game is pretty much is in Beta.

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!

[Radaghast]

It's funny how some of you saying there new mmo going to fail due to FFXIV failing and if Tanaka is leader of the team you wont play it. Is it me or is a company not in title for a bad release of a game? there only human and Tanaka just took the blame for the Company there no need to blame him for the stockholder/CEO for wanting the game to be release in 2010. If this game was release in Q3 of 2011 and had a beta sense Q2 of 2010 this game would have been better. But guess what? the game is pretty much is in Beta.

Their track record so far has been horrible. FF11 was in a similar state as 14 and it took them about a year to fix it. They just had the luxury of being one of the few MMO's out there so were able to recover. FF14 is up in the air whether the playerbase will forgive that again or not. Whether its the dev's or suits fault regardless there's a failure somewhere when someone can't realize the game isn't ready.

[Zenaku]

Their track record so far has been horrible. FF11 was in a similar state as 14 and it took them about a year to fix it. They just had the luxury of being one of the few MMO's out there so were able to recover. FF14 is up in the air whether the playerbase will forgive that again or not. Whether its the dev's or suits fault regardless there's a failure somewhere when someone can't realize the game isn't ready.

FF11 did not even come out in NA so does not even matter if it was horrible Japan was testing it.

I think one of the interview one of them said the game not ready and we need more time but i think CEO just did not listen to there request i think the CEO is what making SE have such a bad track record that and and when einix join Square.

[Nuru]

FF11 did not even come out in NA so does not even matter if it was horrible Japan was testing it.

I think one of the interview one of them said the game not ready and we need more time but i think CEO just did not listen to there request i think the CEO is what making SE have such a bad track record that and and when einix join Square.

I think you missed his point. FF11 could afford the mistakes in their first year because it was one of the few MMORPGs available to play. Right now, FFXIV cannot afford to be in the state it is in much longer, and SE decided to take up a new MMORPG in order to make more profit off of that, perhaps using a different title than Final Fantasy because of the reputation the FF games have been given recently.

FFXIV has more competition right now as FFXI didn't, that's what he meant.

[OMEGA_HACK]

No one has mentioned this one, but what about a Grandia game? A Grandia MMO that has the same principles and combat mechanics as the other Grandia games! Being able to fuse abilities together with your teammates would be pretty awesome if done correctly (not like Battle Regimes)

[Zenaku]

I think you missed his point. FF11 could afford the mistakes in their first year because it was one of the few MMORPGs available to play. Right now, FFXIV cannot afford to be in the state it is in much longer, and SE decided to take up a new MMORPG in order to make more profit off of that, perhaps using a different title than Final Fantasy because of the reputation the FF games have been given recently.

FFXIV has more competition right now as FFXI didn't, that's what he meant.

i don't even know why they making a new MMO to start with making a new mmo would lose more money then gain but iguess they thinking of the long run.

[Peregrine]

Grandia, Star Ocean, even Dragon Quest have low potentials for MMO concepts. They're not popular enough in NA and Europe.
I honestly wouldn't give a **** about a grandia or star ocean MMO, and DQ doesn't fit the massively multiplayer genre well.

Mana is about the only flagship series that is truly amenable to MMO style, and it actually has a reputation that'll sell it.

Mana is a perfect model for a light, animated action-oriented microtransaction MMO, one that would make Square a lot of money.

[Elexia]

Romancing Saga as well.