Welcome to the Final World of Fantasycraft

[Sephrick]

Given today's letter from the producer, this article seems to have a little more validity to it. Still, I'm always sceptical of "conditions of anonymity."

Welcome to the Final World of Fantasycraft

Are two of gaming's giants teaming up for the MMO of a lifetime?

By IGN Staff
staff@ign.com

Come 2013, we may visit Eorzeroth.

Both Square Enix and Blizzard have remained mum on their own seemingly separate MMORPG projects.

While the developers at Square Enix have worked feverishly to produce what they have dubbed "2.0" -- the reimagining of the flubbed Final Fantasy XIV -- Blizzard has been hard at work on a project called by the codename Titan.

According to sources speaking on condition of anonymity, Square Enix and Blizzard have taken a bold new approach to developing an MMORPG.

"It's about financing, and pooling talent," the source said.

The cost of creating a competitive MMORPG in today's market is staggering, so the combined efforts of two of gaming's most beloved developers may be just what it takes to keep this genre alive.

The source also stated that pressure from Blizzard caused Square Enix to withhold a major announcement about the project that was to be delivered in tandem with a trailer at this year's E3.

Representatives from both Blizzard and Square Enix declined to comment with Blizzard stating they "do not comment on projects in development."

Do you think an East-meets-West collaboration will create a top notch game? Can 2.0 and Titan really be the same game? Sound off in the comments below.

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EDIT: It seems the story was removed. I have it open in a tab at home so I'll screenshot it when I get home from work.

[Tonka]

[Sephrick]

Wow, seems like they pulled the story or something. Weird. I'll screen shot it after work. It's still open in a tab at home.

[Antanias]

Squizzard!!!

[Betelgeuzah]

Did they get bomba'd by the SE&Blizz lawyers?

[Airget]

There might be to much friction of ideas if it came to making an mmo with bother a west/east developer unless they set down some ground rules before starting the project such as:
-World Focus (Sci-fi, modern, fantasy, prehistoric, etc)
-Class focus (Traditional western way of 1 class a character or the SE method of being able to change your class)
-battle mechanics

Think if they can agree on the above 3 it would be easy to make said gave with both developers but if they can't agree on the above it would never begin conceptualization. They'd have to have a lot of conversation and finally come to an agreement when it comes to choosing the above 3. <_< With that in mind though mabe if SE and Blizzard ever decided to make a game they should just go kingdom hearts on it and just make it a world filled with all their previous game concepts so everyone can pick something they like. They like sci-fi then play in the star craft/star ocean like area. Enjoy fantasy, play in the WoW/FF like area. Enjoy dungeon crawling, play i the diablo/choco dungeon like areas lol. Since an MMO developer has to be more agressive with content then before it would be better to produce a game witha lot of concepts in mind to give everyone something they may like then as a large group expand on each one as the project continues or mayve add new things like a sky area or deep ocean exploration or expand deep space exploration etc.

It could be interesting if two forces did team up to make an MMO since then you would have a lot of ideas bouncing around though it would also be a lot of work for the translators relaying each bit of information from one team to the other.

[REDace0]

Based on how much Yoshi-P has been trumping 2.0's FF-ness, I don't think there's any way Titan=2.0, but then, if this is accurate, what would be the nature of them working together?

[Starlord]

People are quick to believe anything :/ lol.

He is just probably taking ideas from World of Warcraft that actually work, and make it work in a Final Fantasy setting.

( People always jump to conclusion before they are dealt the whole information).

[Chiper]

I highly doubt that Titan is at all related to any Final Fantasy series.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think project "Titan" was data mined 2+ years ago (I heard of it from a friend at the time when we were both really big into WoW and Blizzard)... so this is a project that is getting on in age.

It would definitly be surprising if it was a combined effort. I'd like to see the end result of that *potential* collaboration!

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Some people really have too much time on their hands.