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Square, FFXI, and the MMORPG

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the games-people-play-together dept.

LukeG writes "Squaresoft's latest instalment in the ubiquitous Final Fantasy series will mark huge departure from previous titles, as they gamble on the popularity of massively multiplayer gaming on consoles. The genre, already succesful on the PC, has yet to be tested on a console audience, but that is exactly what Square are planning with the groundbreaking release of Final Fantasy XI later this year on PS2." I'm interested to see the FF world taken to an MMORPG. If anyone can make the genre not suck, it's Square.

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  1. Too many sequals? by 68030 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've heard it commented many times that the series as a whole is slowly declining and even more whining over Uematsu's musical ability, yet none the less the game continue to be popular enough to warrent a decent fan following. Each release will the first introduction to the series to many gamers. I would venture that many of those gamers do not own a SNES or NES that they could play the older games on, so the only frame of referance they have are the more recent sequals.

    Square wouldn't be making another sequal if they didn't think there wasn't a demand for it.

    Probably the same reason that almost half of the remixes at Overclocked Remix are from a Final Fantasy game. :P