New Blog post "Interview with Director/Producer"

[Elexia]

PvP is a must in current mmos because you need some competitive aspect to the game that players can play over and over and test there skills against actual players. Yoshi-P already said he was big in to PvP so I am sure he will do a good job with it.

There's plenty of PvP based MMOs on the market as is. XIV also is a failed MMO which is an image that you can't easily erase. Why jump ship to FFXIV for PvP when you can stick with the MMO you've already been dedicated to? He may be big on PvP but there's a reason people hop from MMO to MMO very quickly and very easily.

SE really doesn't need that to happen with ARR but it will if people honestly think PvP is the key reason to make an MMO good. It's well known based on the series and last FF MMO that it'd be a PvE centric game.

Yeah XI did well cuz 11 years MMOs where for niche players only...

Straight from SE: Final Fantasy XI is their most profitable title. Being niche is definitely a bad thing. Agreed. It made them no money whatsoever.