Next Final Fantasy MMO due soon?

[Risvertasashi]

It is unlikely there will be a new FF MMO in the near future. SE already operates 2 full fledged MMOs, which is a rarity among gaming companies, and shutting down an MMO would... not be great for customer trust. FFXIV will likely be a 15+ year game.

In any case, there certainly hasn't been any kind of official word of working on a new MMO.

[SaitoHikari]

The probability of FFXVI being developed by FFXIV staff is far, far higher than the probability of another MMO even being in the works right now.

[Risvertasashi]

The probability of FFXVI being developed by FFXIV staff is far, far higher than the probability of another MMO even being in the works right now.

If you look in the credits of other Square Enix titles, you'll already see names from the FFXIV team in them.

But, it's pretty normal for companies to share people between projects, particularly if the bottleneck is not a given person's skillset.

[SaitoHikari]

If you look in the credits of other Square Enix titles, you'll already see names from the FFXIV team in them.

But, it's pretty normal for companies to share people between projects, particularly if the bottleneck is not a given person's skillset.

Yeah, I should have probably been a bit more blunt with what I meant.

Three key staff members from FFXIV stepped down when Heavensward was released. A battle designer, a scenario writer, and one other I can't remember off the top of my head. The public hasn't really heard from them since, though we know they're still employed within SE. Speculation is that they're working on FFXVI.

[Dibella_Heartilly]

I'd love a prequel mmo to FF8 "Final Fantasy Zero VIII" or FF0.8 Where everyone picks a starter class and depending which you pick you get sent to either Balamb Garden, Galbadia Garden or Trabia Garden.

[ImagiNation]

Is it 3 MMOs? Dragon Quest X Online not consider an MMO? As for eight years between launch of XI 2002 to XIV 2010, I could understand how some people would be thinking well its been eight years since XIV. I have heard of several people saying they would jump on an MMO that was more like XI various gear sets, various horizontal levels of content that overlap in someways that are not the same thing every seven months. SE has plenty of money to employ people, but as you all said they have other MMOs running so they would have to basically stop supporting them to put effort into a new MMO. Think it comes down to does SE feel they would profit from making a new MMO versus running XI and XIV on fumes while their mobile games makes them tons more.

[RareItems]

I found the Mr. Happy video where he talks about the interview with Mr. Yoshida, I posted the link on the first post on this thread xD.

[addz3]

I'd personally love a new ff MMO. I wish XI wasn't so graphically awful because it's a billion times better than XIV. Can't see it happening anytime soon.

[Kalisto]

Give me FFXI with FFXIV graphics and a fresh start and I would be all over that, so would a lot of my old XI buddies who dislike XIV.