>>738988313No.
am I ever going to canonically fuck Shtola
It's going to be a turn based RPG with real time dodging and parrying
>>738988313no because that means ff xx will be an mmo, which cuts into the profits of ffxviiican't have that
>>738988313I highly doubt it, moving people from 11 to 14 was planned years in advance, there is no reason to believe they would want to move people from 14 to 17
>>738988313No. You will never see a big-name studio produce an MMO ever again.It's an outdated model that only really appeals to an aging userbase (I'd suspect the average age of FFXIV and WoW players is nowhere south of 30, and that number is only gonna keep going up).They've mostly been succeeded by Live Service Games and Gatcha in different respects. With the solo/"parallel play" grinders being drawn to the latter, and the people who want to play with others being drawn to the former (when you combine a live service game with some system-agnostic chat platform like Discord, they start to take on a kind of MMO-ish quality themselves).
>>738988752This and xiv still has a lot of life in it. I could see it still getting like 5 or 6 more expansions.
>>738988313i hope so because 14 is old and busted and rebirth combat exists but >>738988450corpo brain says no>please wait 60 seconds to be traced to postyou're lucky i even still come here "we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing", some day i'll just
>>738988313nowith them moving into a new story arc they probably aren't planning a new MMO anytime soonor ever because MMOs are expensive and risky and they would rather milk XIV dry for as long as possiblebut I can still dream about a hypothetical modern FFXI-like that isn't annoying to try and understand and isn't made with controllers in mind first
>>738988384Even a Resident Evil clone would be more likely.
>>738988384like Paper Mario?or like DQX where you move around and avoid things?
>>738988313They just finished a graphics update and 8.0 will have a number of major systems overhauls. It costs several hundred million to produce a brand new MMO.So no.
>>738988313It has a much better chance of being a live service gacha unfortunately
>>738988313I hope it's not because being an MMO sabotaged 3 different FF games with shitty design.
>>738988313They are quite literally Ship of Theseusing XIV as we speak.
I think they might make FFIX an mmo but before then not likely
>>738988384This. Square copies whatever flavor of the month rpg gets popular, like E33, but 5-6 years late, when the rest of the world has already moved on.
>>738989815FFXI proves you wrong though.
>>738988313It's gonna be trend chasing turn-based trash emulating E33s success, SE is boring like that.
>>738988313That would be completely retarded, which is why I could SE doing it.
>>738988384>>738990261>They are going to make Final Fantasy XIII againDream on.Final Fantasy XVII will undoubtably be a Final Fantasy VII Remake Trilogy clone, but only one game. They spent millions perfecting that combat system and it is very beloved, so there is zero chance that they would just trash it.
>>738990601*see SE doing it>>738990261nah that will be XIX in 2040 by which time people will be wanting something else
>>738990261well whaddya expect>wooow this is so much better than ff square really got mogged square could never make a game like that this game proves that turn based heckin wonnerino
>>738990627Nah man, I actually want a mainline game with FF7R combat, that's how I know it won't be that.
>>738989019The FFXI staff have openly talked about how they've been successfully recompiling the source code to enable themselves to be able to remake the game if given the call to do so, so a modern FFXI-like is honestly more likely than you might think.
>>738991179>boomer game tries to be a not boomer gamesounds like a plan for success
>>738991179>to be able to remake the game if given the call to do soI bet nips will riot if SE decides to replace PlayOnline with a modern launcher.
>>738988313Not likely; FFXI and FFXIV are still active enough that making a new game would likely not be worth the financial risk (while there is some benefits to being your own competition, Square isn't really big enough to run that many MMOs at once). While I think there will be a multiplayer focused FF game in the future, I don't think it will resemble a traditional MMO, and it likely isn't the next one. Unless Square go full pants on head mode and make it something like an extraction shooter for god knows what reason
>>738988804>still no DQX official NA releasegenre's doomed
>>738992321I don't think any such ambition would be like that, at worst/best depending on the person, I could see them using the opportunity to modernize how you interface with the game while keeping the core of it the same. The biggest barriers of entry to FFXI is the sub fee, installation process, and how menu based every aspect of the game is (and how antiquated interfacing with those menus are)There's no inherent need to move away from the core of it's old-school design sensibilities because for gamers that want an FF MMO that's more modern in it's overall design you have FFXIV. However, there is also literally more players subbed to FFXI right now than there was 10 years ago, and with the initial success of classic WoW, the successful launch of the GW1 remaster, and the consistent success of OSRS there is a clear market demand right now for those "boomer game" MMO design sensibilities right now. I could see a hypothetical FFXI remaster/remake being SE's attempt to get deeper into that market, rather than trying to turn it into a product that already exists, but to be fair SE has found ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of easy victory innumerable amounts of time in the past.
>>738988313No, it will be an FPS
FF XXVII will be a MMO
>>738988804Cannot stress this enough. There will NEVER be a classic style MMO made ever again.The expectations on what it would need to launch with would be way high, impossible to satisfy demands on launch. And the team would need to be established and ready to constantly do large updates/patches to keep attention.Look at how WoW/FF14 started in their early days, even the reboot of FF14 (2.0) had very little "content", and pumped out as much as it could in the span of two years.For proof that it would fail. Look at New World or Ashes of Creation. Case in point right there.
>>738995421>There was a time in gaming where we thought development timeframes wouldn't take decades long>And characters on the cover would be attractive white characters
You now remember when everyone was certain Ishikawa would be 17s writer, which was funny because Maehiro was immediately placed on the 16 team, along with a large chunk of CBU3 when HW wrapped up. Ishikawa remained on 14 as msq advisor with Oda and still writes sidequests here and there.And now that 16 bombed, there will not be an opportunity for CBU3 to handle mainline for a while.>>738989891They attempted it, and failed, so they're un-Theseusing the ship aa we speak.
>>738988820>I could see it still getting like 5 or 6 more expansions.Delulu
>>738988804It's also because there are already WoW and XIV around, because whenever one of the two games is bad the few mmo players left move from one game to the other.
>>738995515What if they make an mmorpg that has good pvp combat? You don't need a lot of content if the content is players fighting each other. Then you can build good content over time after having a good core.
>>738995661Buddy, Squeenix are still making money off of a fucking 25-year old ps2 mmo. Of COURSE ffxiv is going to get 5 or 6 more expansions. The mmos are the only things currently making squeenix any money.
