With SE dumping IP's

[Amenara]

I dont think that would be a smart move, unless they can both Provide PS5s and have Metric Data that suggests a MASSIVE amount of players have gotten off the PS4 and Jumped onto PS5. Otherwise that would be a complete alienation of their console playerbase.

Whether it is smart or not, if you come out and say 7.0 will be the last expansion on PS4 and give the console players years to purchase a PS5 to continue playing on console, I think that could work. That being said, if CBU3 continues to be profitable to SE/Sony I hope that they will let them just keep doing their thing without injecting themselves into decisions.

[DiaDeem]

this game is going to die one day

While technically not wrong, consider the following...

WoW has been going for 19 years.
FFXI has been going for 17 years.
Dark Age of Camelot has been going for 21 years.
EverQuest has been going for 23 years.
Ultima Online has been going for 24 years.

ARR is not even 10 years old. It'll just about turn 10 next year in August.

So.. sure, the game may go away someday, but we may be talking about the 2040s or later, depending how the next 10 go for XIV.

[Lustre]

SE selling well-known IPs to fund NFT projects is the equivalent of a respectable franchise owner throwing away entire chains of businesses so he can make slightly more profit on the crack cocaine market

[Kisshu]

It could maybe be a boost for XIV if the team then gained access to Sony's support studios such as Nixxes, Valkyrie, San Mateo and Malaysia studios. Recall Yoshi-P saying that one problem they have is getting new devs in and having the time to train them. Some support studios could off-load some of the work giving the team time to recruit and train more devs.

If it happens, I would imagine it will be similar to the Bungie deal, basicly acting like an independent publisher rather than a studio under Playstation. Can release games on any system they want, but could see a rule that they have to release all games on Playstation.

[DamianFatale]

Do you think SE gets bought by Sony? I hope not since Sony is more on the exclusive side and try not to multiplatform IP's sometimes.

Its like people forget there is a team that makes games exclusively for Nintendo. I.e. Bravely, Octopath Traveler, Triangle Strategy, and etc. Not everything is about Playstation.

[Kranel_San]

That never will happen because the large PC playerbase will just stop playing.
At least I would because a discission like that would mark the beginning of the end.

Cross play is a big selling point of XIV and if MS would not have bought Activision Blizzard then a Xbox version would have been possible too.

It's ridiculous Xbox players can't (and probably will never) play XIV without a PC or a PS just because they're affiliated with MS. If this happens when SE is a third-party, then I don't know how ridiculous things will get when they're owned by Sony.

I could see Sony pushing for removal of PS4 support to help push PS5 sales but I couldn't see them removing or delaying PC launches for a game that has been out worldwide on PC since its inception.

If I'm not mistaken. Sony's working on a single (If not a couple) of MMOs games. I'm having full expectations they're going to be PS exclusives, which will tell us what might also happen to XIV if Sony decided to buy SE.

[Gameovers]

Its like people forget there is a team that makes games exclusively for Nintendo. I.e. Bravely, Octopath Traveler, Triangle Strategy, and etc. Not everything is about Playstation.

Doesn't change the fact that it's looking like Sony is preparing to buy SE. And the big titles are Playstation only so thats why people point to it. Remake being a huge example. And well... the very game we're playing now. PS4, PS5 and PC.

[Enkidoh]

Doesn't change the fact that it's looking like Sony is preparing to buy SE. And the big titles are Playstation only so thats why people point to it. Remake being a huge example. And well... the very game we're playing now. PS4, PS5 and PC.

Again, this is just a rumour that's been constantly bandied about for years and never actually happened, then fades away until given another run around the block due to games journalists needing to fill a slow news day/cycle with some whisper they happen to hear, and the cycle repeats itself. Unless it's outright stated that a takeover is officially planned by either SE or Sony, take such rumours as just hearsay.

And for what it was worth, SE selling off a few NA developers they owned is not 'proof' Sony is circling. Nor is SE plugging NFTs proof either because, pretty much every company has jumped on the NFT bandwagon with little success so that's nothing new?

[Gameovers]

Again, this is just a rumour that's been constantly bandied about for years and never actually happened, then fades away until given another run around the block due to games journalists needing to fill a slow news day/cycle with some whisper they happen to hear, and the cycle repeats itself. Unless it's outright stated that a takeover is officially planned by either SE or Sony, take such rumours as just hearsay.

And for what it was worth, SE selling off a few NA developers they owned is not 'proof' Sony is circling. Nor is SE plugging NFTs proof either because, pretty much every company has jumped on the NFT bandwagon with little success so that's nothing new?

Never say never. People said the same thing about Beth and Microsoft. I'm leaning towards it happening but I'm not holding my air about it. Lets just say I won' be the one who's shocked if it does happen. And personally.. I rather sony buy them then the green box if I'm being honest.

[KurohNeko]

Do you think SE gets bought by Sony? I hope not since Sony is more on the exclusive side and try not to multiplatform IP's sometimes.

It's done if Sony buys it. They corrupt and sink everything they touch. They own Crunchyroll and we all know that dumpster fire which just bought out Right Stuf Anime a big manga and merch store and banned adult content day one. If Sony buys SE expect all the sexy cat, bunny and dragon girls and anything with even a slightly based humor to it to be banned and replaced with cookie cutter woke saltines.