If FFXVII is a new online game... would you move inmediately?

[SigmaOZ]

I wish FFXVII will be an Online game, it could be the sequel to FFXIV but with modern graphics and a strong flexible code without the limitations of the current game.


1. You'd move inmediately?

Yes.


2. You'd keep playing FFXIV for a while?

If there was still content to play.


3. You'd play both if can have a discount for the pack?

Yes.


4. You'd play both no matter what?

No, I would jump ships as soon as possible if nothing held me back in FFXIV.


On another note, I would love a M rated game full with adult content.

[RitsukoSonoda]

I wish FFXVII will be an Online game, it could be the sequel to FFXIV but with modern graphics and a strong flexible code without the limitations of the current game.


1. You'd move inmediately?

Yes.


2. You'd keep playing FFXIV for a while?

If there was still content to play.


3. You'd play both if can have a discount for the pack?

Yes.


4. You'd play both no matter what?

No, I would jump ships as soon as possible if nothing held me back in FFXIV.


On another note, I would love a M rated game full with adult content.

Just need to pick up the pace so we can get to FFXXX. Then we can have all hell break loose and get answers to questions you wish no one had ever asked and are now scarred for life because you were given said answers... lol

[Lauront]

Just need to pick up the pace so we can get to FFXXX. Then we can have all hell break loose and get answers to questions you wish no one had ever asked and are now scarred for life because you were given said answers... lol

Yes, as though some god from the Cthulhu world whispered into your ear and invaded your dreams.

[ItMe]

4 MMO's There's FFXI, FFXIV, and DQX... Is Front Mission Online still going? I don't recall that one really feeling like an MMO though. TBH, they'd probably find a vast amount of new revenue if they'd just port DQX outside japan.

4 MMO's with the 4th one being the proposed hypothetical FF17.
When I said "SQEX [isn't interested] in creating and supporting 4 MMOs at once" I meant that they've said they're not interested in making and supporting a 4th concurrent MMO, not that they are currently supporting 4.
Sorry if this was conveyed poorly.

Seeing how different what Yoshi has in mind for a future MMO is to XIV, XI and I imagine their DQ MMO, I don't think it'd even compete for the same type of player. Perhaps for their internal resources but they are capable of running multiple concurrent projects.

On paper, maybe.
In practice, that will be true to some extent.
But also, flooding the market with your own products is never a financially sound idea. They will inevitably compete with each other to some extent.

[Lauront]

On paper, maybe.
In practice, that will be true to some extent.
But also, flooding the market with your own products is never a financially sound idea. They will inevitably compete with each other to some extent.

I don't doubt that the risk exists to some degree, but it really depends on how differentiated it was to their present MMOs. If it's something like Overwatch (action-based, no real persistent world), I don't see much of a cannibalisation risk; if it's like Blue Protocol (action-based but it has a persistent, albeit instanced, world), slightly higher risk, but again, he is discussing it in terms of what they think their audiences desire and he thinks there is some segmentation in that regard. Part of why MMOs can cannibalise each other is because of sub fees as well, and the type of product he is alluding to is usually not accompanied by those, so much as cash shops or season passes. Obviously money is money but it does take one barrier away.

Bear in mind their design philosophy is to go away and play something else with 14 when you run out of things you want to do in it, and that happens pretty quickly for many people - their current content model doesn't seem like it will change. So if that product played in one's spare time were a SE product, it's not like they'd lose from it. It'd also scarcely count as flooding. If they know a chunk of their playerbase is already doing this, they could actually stand to gain from it.

[lezard21]

Depends.

If it were based on a world already rich with lore like the Ivalice world sure.

Specially if the character creation was more diverse with races like Bangaas, Burmecians, Seeq, Garif instead of just human but cat ears, human but bunny ears, human but dragon tail, human but tall, human but chonky, human but baby

[RitsukoSonoda]

Technical limitations I think became a thing in 2.0 cause one of the issues with 1.0 was how it was eating hardware resources. There actually was a bit of a visual downgrade done between 1.0 and 2.0.

[ElciaDeiLinus]

Pretty sure they said a new story would be starting after EW- which likely means another ten years. Now, in ten years it'd likely sink in the limitations and such of FFXIV, and I could see them doing another mmo then- but for a 2023 release for an mmo, they'd have to have started 2018'ish... I really doubt even Yoshi P could be making ShB, EW, FFXVI AND a full new mmo at the same time. If he were to make a new mmo, I think that'd take all his attention, and he's really only able to do FFXVI at this point because the departments under him in FFXIV are probably very autonomous by now.

I'd think it'd likely be 2030'ish, and I also imagine they'll want a new vision, so he may end up mostly consulting rather than being in charge.

FFXIV just hit the height of its popularity, and honestly has no competition right now as other big mmos (ESO, BDO) or upcoming mmos (Ashes, New World) are vastly different and capture different audiences- of all the times to make a new FF mmo, this is pretty much the worst possible time.

[Delis]

I would love to see what Yoshi-p and the devs could do with a MMO that has a decent engine for them to work with.

[xxmiamorecadenza]

I’d move immediately if the graphics were better in comparison, the setting and plot was considerably fresh and the customization options were bolstered considerably.

Also new races, maybe.