New Square-Enix MMORPG in Development

Kitmitsu · Feb 10 2008, 05:00 PM

Square-Enix has already confirmed they will be appearing at this years Games Developers Conference in San Francisco and now one of their talks entitled "The Technology of Final Fantasy" has been revealed on the GDC website. The talk presented by Square-Enix's Taku Murata will be about Square-Enix's White Engine, the engine behind Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII. The engine has apparently been further developed to be used in a new MMO to be announced by Square-Enix which could possibly be a new Final Fantasy title or even the unanounced Final Fantasy Haeresis XIII.

Just to reaffirm the fact that the White Engine runs exclusivly on the Playstation 3 but it may have been further developed by other teams at Square-Enix to work on multiple platforms. This in no way means that either FFXIII or Versus are going multiplatform. Had to say that because it seems any mention of "FFXIII" and "development" cause a "Final Fantasy XIII going to 360!" rumor.

Game Development Conference: The Technology of Final Fantasy

Source: FF7AC Reunion

Cilvia · Feb 10 2008, 05:06 PM

so does it mean Final fantasy is not exclusive?
awful.

Kitmitsu · Feb 10 2008, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Cilvia

so does it mean Final fantasy is not exclusive?
awful.

Did you even read the last paragraph of my post? FFXIII and Versus are exclusive.

Cilvia · Feb 10 2008, 05:09 PM

D:
kk

Dark Vincent · Feb 10 2008, 05:53 PM

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This in no way means that either FFXIII or Versus are going multiplatform. Had to say that because it seems any mention of "FFXIII" and "development" cause a "Final Fantasy XIII going to 360!" rumor.

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Originally Posted by Cilvia

so does it mean Final fantasy is not exclusive?
awful.

... *brb crying*

So yeah, I believe they have to develop this engine to work multiplatform, since releasing a new MMO exclusively for the PS3 would be an extremely risky move. MMOs are much more popular on PC for several reasons, and many MMO players don't like games/console gaming at all.
Other than that we already knew about SE working on a new MMO for a while now, but they never released any more info on it for a long time.

Vidya · Feb 10 2008, 06:58 PM

Yes. I like my MMORPGS.

*is incredibly excited*

It would be a stupid move to put the game on one platform, though, even though PC MMORPGs are much more popular for logical reasons.

Passion · Feb 10 2008, 09:51 PM

Oh wow this sounds really cool, I don't play FFXI or anything but alot of friends do.

Mavet · Feb 10 2008, 10:13 PM

FFXI was so bad I couldnt even look at the box anymore.
They made a good concept for a MMO but ruined it by horrible gameplay and lack of tutorials.
Hope the new one will be a quadruple times better.

Final · Feb 10 2008, 10:20 PM

Oh no!!!!! Now I can't sleep

Just hope it'll be something new, instead of some other version of WOW, not because there's anything wrong with it

nico_14_ian · Feb 11 2008, 02:49 AM

360 is old news. They've run out of their technology so long ago, not to mention, running an MMO on that thing would definately make it's system break. More RRoD ftw! And I know XI ran on it but this is a Next-Gen game we're talking about here.

As for the game itself, XI was fun, but it got boring really fast. I just expected so much more. Hopefully they can get this one right. Platforms: PS3 and PC (Nextbox in 4 yrs)

Dark Vincent · Feb 11 2008, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Mavet

FFXI was so bad I couldnt even look at the box anymore.
They made a good concept for a MMO but ruined it by horrible gameplay and lack of tutorials.
Hope the new one will be a quadruple times better.

The gameplay was great what are you talking about.
It's true that the game is a little rough on newbies, but nowadays there is plenty of tutorials on the official website.
FFXI is pretty good, once you are past the early experiences. It still is my favorite MMORPG to date.

Neal · Feb 11 2008, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Cilvia

so does it mean Final fantasy is not exclusive?
awful.

Ugh, it does my head in when people can't read articles properly. #

jenny_kumiko · Feb 11 2008, 05:51 AM

grrr...FFXIII going to 360,juts we r waiting for something new

Passion · Feb 11 2008, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ilAldo

Ugh, it does my head in when people can't read articles properly. #

Quoted for truth! ;DD

Thimien · Feb 11 2008, 10:52 AM

one question?? whats an MMO? lmao... i know probably something i know, or should know what it meas, but my brain is bad with abriviations lol

Whiplash · Feb 11 2008, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Thimien

one question?? whats an MMO? lmao... i know probably something i know, or should know what it meas, but my brain is bad with abriviations lol

Massive Multiplayer Online

Thimien · Feb 11 2008, 12:48 PM

Thx whip, i know im a noob, i should know these things lol

Final · Feb 11 2008, 01:27 PM

^ Hehe, I stopped up also to think about what it meant

Passion · Feb 11 2008, 01:29 PM

Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.

OBJECTION. ;DDD

deceptacon · Feb 11 2008, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Thimien

one question?? whats an MMO? lmao... i know probably something i know, or should know what it meas, but my brain is bad with abriviations lol

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Originally Posted by Final

^ Hehe, I stopped up also to think about what it meant

if you don't know what an abbreviation, or ANY word for that matter means.......
ffs, use www.google.com to save us from our brains exploding.