Do you think square enix will continue making new MMOs after this project?

[Pence]

Blizzard doesn't stick to one project...? What even is this thread?

[xXRaineXx]

Blizzard doesn't stick to one project...? What even is this thread?

OP meant, Blizzard only sticks to one MMORPG. Which is Wow. Though I'm no Blizzard expert, so enlighten me if they have another MMORPG.

I doubt it MMOs are no longer what they once were. MOBAs are the new money maker so maybe an SE MOBA that has FF and other SE franchises, akin to Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm.

Oh for the love of god, please no >,< We are going a have community of weebsters raging at each other >.>

Replying to the OP, I'm sure they will. Even if SE doesn't make a new dev team, if Yoshida is still around, he will probably make a new one. He clearly stated that he loves MMO's and FF, that's why he commandeered the sinking SS1.0 ship.
One day, maybe in another few years, FFXI will finally come to a close. Maybe then if FFXIV's assets are big enough, a new project may begin.

But hey, I'm a optimist

[NoahArks]

It's kind of early, but if they do decide that. I hope they they give it the FFXV battle system. It's not over the top in a way of kingdom hearts, but it is something that could work in a mmo.

[FoxyAreku]

They'll stick with this as long as it remains popular.

FFXI wasn't overly popular, so they moved on.

I'd have to say that, as far as MMOs go, WoW is the exceptional outlier. And as for Blizzard, WoW's staff alone is massive. I'm willing to wager that it's several times larger than the staff that works on XIV and XI combined.

I don't know how financially well off SE is to consider adding another MMO developing staff. Right now, I'm leaning on that while they are doing fairly well right now, they're in no state to do such a thing.

And yet, it still takes blizzard over half a year to make a content patch...

[Jetstream_Fox]

OP meant, Blizzard only sticks to one MMORPG. Which is Wow. Though I'm no Blizzard expert, so enlighten me if they have another MMORPG.

In some regard Diablo is an mmoish dungeon crawler, but really it depends on what you classify as a mmo. For me, social aspects, such as chat rooms/hubs and trading between players, are qualities I'd deem related to the mmo genre.

But really mmo is a pure subjective term at this point given how Destiny is coined an mmo despite not having chat systems or trading. But because it has raids people classify it as a mmo, which is odd because that would also put Borderlands in the same category.

[Zojha]

[...] but really it depends on what you classify as a mmo.

Well, "Massively" "Multiplayer" "Online" are the words that make an MMO - and the last two are relatively trivial. The question is:"What is massive?" Many people simply relate it to the size of the world and how many people you can stack in one instance. If you relate it to the playerbase, just about every successful multiplayer online game becomes an MMO.

The RPG in MMORPG, "Role-playing-game" goes extra. You can have MMO-Shooters or MMO-Jump'n Runs or MMO-Hack'n Slays and something like Planetside might even qualify for the prior. And I like to think the Quicksand on Balmung ultimately is an attempt to create a MMO-Dating Sim >_> But that leads off topic.

Anywhoo, I wouldn't expect a new MMO from Square anytime soon and in fact, would assume the genre as such will fall a bit into obscurity. MOBAs are the new hot shizz and while I can see them getting competition from other, similarly accessible and low-committal game, I don't think MMORPG will have a big resurgence. Unless, of course, we make it so people will have to work less for their own and their families living, so they have more free time to commit to these games. And that can't work when the bottom 80% of a population owns like 7% of the total wealth and the top 10% keep having an income higher than the bottom 90% combined. That however is unlikely to change without some pretty radical political changes and as such, I doubt MMORPGs have a golden future.

[Dererk]

No I don't see them making a new one for a long time.

On another topic though I can see more stuff getting added to this cause once FFXI finally closes most likely the staff will be going here.

[Noshpan]

I'd have to say that, as far as MMOs go, WoW is the exceptional outlier. And as for Blizzard, WoW's staff alone is massive. I'm willing to wager that it's several times larger than the staff that works on XIV and XI combined.

I don't know how financially well off SE is to consider adding another MMO developing staff. Right now, I'm leaning on that while they are doing fairly well right now, they're in no state to do such a thing.

[Laerune]

I prefer to see another SE fanchise get a MMORPG, but yeah if the game keeps being this good (for SE pockets) then yeah, I reckon we might see a new type of FF MMO in 9-10 years.