New MMORPG?

[CStrife912]

square is currently keeping alive THREE mmorpgs.

realistically, one of these needs to die forever to free resources, and the other two remain in miant mode to not eat eachothers lunch.

and so
11) in maint but still popular enough to warrant,
DQ10) popular, sees regular updates
ffxiv) same as above

short answer) no



the graphic update should also be updating the older crusty textures.

hopefully this coincides with them killing ps4 support

PS4 support is staying for 7.0 at least for now...8.0 onwards doubtful. PS5s are selling stupidly well so by the time of 8.0 they would be in a much better spot to transition players over to that platform. In the first 6.4 live letter he made a small comment in regards to people wishing to see a new update on the visuals (which will be fanfest in July at least) He said that while PS4 support will exist he doesn't imagine it running the new stuff they are doing so it will likely be disabled, he did allude to it being toggable though so who knows? Maybe ps4 pro could don't know. The core issue is them dropping low spec pcs because he has said they are more of a bottleneck so them moving minimum spec up will be a good thing for the long haul.

[Hyperia]

hopefully this coincides with them killing ps4 support

This was supposed to happen with the release of 7.0 but the microprocessor shortages delayed PS5 shipments so badly that Sony asked SE to keep the PS4 going until 8.0, which is the new PS4 drop date.

[ZephyrMenodora]

I am not ready for a new FF MMO yet, but I am interested in exploring new MMOs in general. A new Lord of the Rings MMO was just announced and I'll probably check that out.

I am a bit of a graphics snob, so I do hope the graphics improvements that are coming breathe a little bit of a longer life in XIV at least visually. But if we had a brand new next-gen FF MMO I'd play that too, to play my WoL's descendant or something in a refreshed story or gameplay style.

Off topic but I also wouldn't mind a Skyrim-esque game but in a Final Fantasy world as a singe player sandbox either.

[TofuPenguin]

Yoshi did a great job at saving this game. But over time it lost it's magic. I played ARR and came back in ShB and wow, what changes. And so many for the worst. The one that got me and still gets me is the homogenization of jobs. And the story went from feeling like a FF story to some anime tropey crap down the road.

At this point, I'm getting Game of Thrones vibe. Y'know, how it went from great to utter shit? Yea, that kind of feeling. And makes me not really want to try anything Yoshi might have to offer in the future. Same reason why I don't watch House of the Dragon and never will.

[Boblawblah]

And the story went from feeling like a FF story to some anime tropey crap down the road. .

How do you feel about the FFVII Remake story/characters?

[RyuDragnier]

Yoshi did a great job at saving this game. But over time it lost it's magic. I played ARR and came back in ShB and wow, what changes. And so many for the worst. The one that got me and still gets me is the homogenization of jobs. And the story went from feeling like a FF story to some anime tropey crap down the road.

*Looks at all the anime tropes present in FF for over 30 years*

That's...not exactly an argument you want to make. FF4 alone you win through the power of friendship, there's a ton of fake deaths, and the plot itself feels like it would easily work in a Shounen anime.

[Shinkuno]

Yoshi did a great job at saving this game. But over time it lost it's magic. I played ARR and came back in ShB and wow, what changes. And so many for the worst. The one that got me and still gets me is the homogenization of jobs. And the story went from feeling like a FF story to some anime tropey crap down the road.

At this point, I'm getting Game of Thrones vibe. Y'know, how it went from great to utter shit? Yea, that kind of feeling. And makes me not really want to try anything Yoshi might have to offer in the future. Same reason why I don't watch House of the Dragon and never will.

Yoshi saved the game by telling the team "go play WoW". Thats why, now that they try to do their own thing, the whole game starts to fall apart again. Hot take here: but CBU3 dont have a capable enough team to develop a MMO.

[Fyrebrand]

The thing is, Yoshi-P and team didn't even get to make THIS game. Not really. They salvaged an existing flop of a product that seemingly was not programmed very well and has less than stellar server infrastructure, and they've been wrestling with it to some extent to this very day. I would love to see what they can do if given a truly fresh start, a new engine, modern design ideas and features, etc., and not inherit somebody else's code, story ideas, and game mechanics.

Well, I guess the answer is "Final Fantasy XVI," so I guess we'll soon see how that turns out, but in terms of a new MMO I still want that.

[Renalt]