Think we will get a Final Fantasy XIV-2 in the future?

[Kaliesto]

It has been in the back of my mind lately; from what has been said from the developers themselves over the years regarding what this game could, would, and could not do that I wonder if eventually will get a brand new MMO that continues FFXIV but with all the issues addressed that they couldn't address with the original FFXIV that they been wanting to do for years.

Or will FFXIV eventually end soon? I know they wanted to wrap up the current storyline, but they expressed interest in doing another new storyline after it?

[KageTokage]

Considering how long XI has been going on for, I don't think XIV is in any danger of dying off soon, especially when we've only seen a small fragment of Hydaelyn's continents so far.

[Enla]

Considering how long XI has been going on for, I don't think XIV is in any danger of dying off soon, especially when we've only seen a small fragment of Hydaelyn's continents so far.

Especially when the game only continues to gain mainstream traction with each passing month. FFXIV is doing quite well for itself right now and has found a devoted enough fanbase to keep playing it for awhile yet. And if we look to WOW as an example, even after the game starts making misstep after perceived misstep the sunk cost fallacy will likely keep it alive for a lot longer than that.

[DumdogsWorld]

Considering how long XI has been going on for, I don't think XIV is in any danger of dying off soon, especially when we've only seen a small fragment of Hydaelyn's continents so far.

To add to this, the lore considering Hydaelyn's existence in relationship to other worlds is still vague. So far, we've only ever seen details on the original world and the sundering in any amount of detail, but some lore elements (the Omega weapon 'hailing from another star', Midgardsormr coming from another star, the continuous referencing of all 13 shards and the source as simply 'this star', etc) indicate that even more worlds exist, completely unrelated to the source.

Vague lore = undefined lore = room for expansion.

Either the devs are gonna kill this game or a lack of popularity will, but it will not be a case of no more room for expansion.

[Kalise]

They won't be ending FFXIV any time soon.

Though, most likely the reason for it ending will be due to how annoying it'll get having to work with the spaghetti code and all the limitations it imposes on the devs.

Even then, it'll probably continue on in a sort of maintenance mode, so long as people will play it.

As for a new FF MMO, be it XIV-2 or otherwise... That will depend entirely on whether SE deems it potentially lucrative enough to sink the vast amounts of money that creating an MMO from scratch requires. Which, given how XIV 1.0 turned out, probably makes them a little more cautious about greenlighting MMO's.

How likely they will consider it is hard to say, but they already run XIV under less than its potential because they want to earn maximum profits off it meaning that the devs have to be really critical about what they spend time and money on developing (Including spending their own free time, as was the case for the few Viera and Hrothgar glasses and stuff). Otherwise, if given free control and a higher portion of its earnings to spend, its possible that they could have a team (Or teams) working on rewriting the code in order to make "XIV-2" without having to completely start the game over from scratch.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I kind of expect it to end when we get to level 100 (in other words, two more expansions), then go into maintenance mode like XI. I sincerely hope it doesn't just drag on forever like WoW.

[Risvertasashi]

Or will FFXIV eventually end soon? I know they wanted to wrap up the current storyline, but they expressed interest in doing another new storyline after it?

"Eventually end soon"?

But in short, no. The market is not favorable to MMORPGs right now, SE is still running FFXI and has said several times they don't want more MMORPG projects to manage. I'd expect 14 has at least another decade left in it, if not longer.

They also hinted in an interview that they'd sooner overhaul FF14 than start a new game, even though that would be a project of unprecedented scale. (But personally I'd love to see this - though I do love FF14 and it's modern by MMO standards, by the standards of other games it definitely is not and I'd love to see it brought up to par).

[Allegor]

I have zero knowledge about how all the programming mumbo jumbo works, but if I had to chose between an XIV 2 (XVI? XVII?) and the game being shut down for months or even a year to get rid of the 1.0 limitations, I'd chose the latter. As I said, I have zero knowledge of this so I don't know if it's even possible, I'd just rather have a major update/overhaul to the current game than an entirely new one /shrug

[Eldevern]

Since the creator of the franchise has said "one day the Final Fantasy licence will end", I'm not even sure there will be any FFXVI. XV has been shortened (two DLC abandoned) and there's absolutly nothing about the two AAA licence SE is working on. All we know is at least one in a brand new licence.

No trailer means we can't expect any release before 2022 or even 2023.

SE seems to prefer to remaster old FF rather than to build a new one. That's the main reason I start to doubt there will be any brand new FF (and the fact Agni's Philosophy hasn't been followed by an announce of new game).

And if there is a new MMO, I expect and brand new story rather than any FFXIV-2

[Saccharin]

It has been in the back of my mind lately; from what has been said from the developers themselves over the years regarding what this game could, would, and could not do that I wonder if eventually will get a brand new MMO that continues FFXIV but with all the issues addressed that they couldn't address with the original FFXIV that they been wanting to do for years.

Or will FFXIV eventually end soon? I know they wanted to wrap up the current storyline, but they expressed interest in doing another new storyline after it?

It's not possible to get a sequel to an MMO; an expansion is as close as a sequel you will get.