Why they announced XIV about 10 years into XI

[brinn12]

I don't recall anything produced by Square Enix recently that points to a new MMO being successful. They should focus on fixing their main product. But who knows, with how they've been operating recently, the least obvious solution might be the one they try to implement. Right now, it feels like we need a miracle for CBU3 to change their current XIV formula and revamp the game.

[BigCheez]

I don't recall anything produced by Square Enix recently that points to a new MMO being successful. They should focus on fixing their main product. But who knows, with how they've been operating recently, the least obvious solution might be the one they try to implement. Right now, it feels like we need a miracle for CBU3 to change their current XIV formula and revamp the game.

Maybe history is repeating itself - SE did try their best to run FFXI into the ground before announcing FFXIV after all. Maybe we're just in our Abyssea arc.

[Shinku_Tachi]

I'd definitely like to jump into a new Final Fantasy Online world. I've been wanting one for a while.

We know Yoshi-P and the team has things planned to 10.0 for FFXIV; but, things could be in the works behind the scenes (like Rapture, while FFXI thriving). He also talked about Final Fantasy 17 & 18; but, they were touched on so little, they're either not even in the planning stages, or he *really* just wanted to keep things hush hush.

[ChrysOCE]

Unless any new FF MMO is being designed by a new team, with a new director and new writers, I really wouldn't be expecting anything different tbh

[Ath192]

Unless any new FF MMO is being designed by a new team, with a new director and new writers, I really wouldn't be expecting anything different tbh

Well yes exactly. It needs a different gameplay experience. I think the player base is actually bored of CBU III’s style of development. It’s too predictable and boring. However, it is very polished and well done. So while I appreciate this team, just like Yoshi P said, he hoped the next mainline game would be done by another team, hopefully it’s an MMO.

It’s clear MMOs are giant cash cows for SE. it would be ridiculous to not invest in another one if you ask me. I don’t care what people think, every MMO has been and will be a gold mine for SE so long as it’s good.

This game also cannot innovate super well without raising complaints from the user base that already likes it as boring as repetitive as it is.

[Chasingstars]

Thus, I think the best route here is to release a new MMO

Even if they started working right now on a new mmorpg that is literally 8 years away. As that is about the usual amount of dev time it takes to develop a new one, so your looking at 2033. Even if we say they are secretly working on a new one as far back as endwalker's release, a new one would still be 3 and a half years away in 2029.

Which would definitely mean a different studio within SE is working on it and it can't be CBU3 which was being used for development on FF14, FF16, FF Tactics, and also a FF9 remake.

If we were to get a new mmorpg in a sooner time frame, expect it to be an iteration on ff14 which was an iteration ff11.

[Ath192]

Even if we say they are secretly working on a new one as far back as endwalker's release, a new one would still be 3 and a half years away in 2029.

I think this is the best case scenario we can hope for. If they haven't started on it by now then yeah its going to be a long while.

[ChrysOCE]

Well yes exactly. It needs a different gameplay experience. I think the player base is actually bored of CBU III’s style of development. It’s too predictable and boring. However, it is very polished and well done. So while I appreciate this team, just like Yoshi P said, he hoped the next mainline game would be done by another team, hopefully it’s an MMO.

It’s clear MMOs are giant cash cows for SE. it would be ridiculous to not invest in another one if you ask me. I don’t care what people think, every MMO has been and will be a gold mine for SE so long as it’s good.

This game also cannot innovate super well without raising complaints from the user base that already likes it as boring as repetitive as it is.

Yea, I guess I should say it hopefully doesn't have any influences from the current CBU3 team and, if/when they do work on it, it is completely seperated from them.