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Originally Posted by brudahood
intereasting.... im just suprised se would make a new one all of sudden they made a million expasion packs and now a new on all together?
wow(world of warcraft) is juast now coming out with their first expasion pack but there game is insanley popular... more popular then ff11.
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FFXI is also a few years older than WoW so it's not surprising that it's ahead in expansion packs. Blizzard's strategy of waiting 2 years to release the first expansion is by no means the standard in the MMO industry where most games don't even last that long. And many high level WoW players have been wishing for an expansion to be released much sooner.
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Originally Posted by Andromeda
Today, Square Enix made the announcement that they are not making a sequel to FFXI. They are making a new MMO, it is just not FFXI related. And probably not FF related. But no sequel to FFXI.
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I would be surprised if it wasn't a Final Fantasy title, to be honest.
The fact that they're distancing themselves from a "sequel" just shows some caution. MMO sequels haven't done terribly well so far. Asheron's Call 2 was a complete failure, and EverQuest II took its precious time to find its spot in the market. Lineage 2 could be considered a success in Asia, but in the US and Europe the enthusiasm is rather lackluster.
I expect that the game will end up being a separate Final Fantasy title. With its own world, rather than a future or past Vana'diel. That way FFXI fans wouldn't end up being disappointed, expecting an FFXI remake with better graphics, and players who haven't played FFXI wouldn't be put off by a game that "they haven't played the first part of".