New Square Enix MMO announced by April 2012

NewsPosted 25/05/2011 - 9:48am GMT+1

Publisher can see the target with Final Fantasy XIV.

Square Enix hopes to be running two to three MMOs simultaneously, announcing a third MMO by the end of its financial year which runs through to the end of March 2012. Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada mentioned the new MMO during a May 13 earnings briefing - transcript transcribed by Andriasang.

The other two MMOs currently being run by Square Enix are Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV, the latter of which has suffered numerous problems since its release in September 2010. Wada pointed out that while there's still work to be done on the game, the studio is at the point where they can see the target.

VideoGamer.com Analysis

Is Square Enix wise to be working on another MMO when it hasn't managed to fix its previous effort yet? Would you give another title a go having been burnt by Final Fantasy XIV?

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87Sarah

Even though this has had a bad rep though I still want to give it a try. Maybe that's the FF fan in me (that wasn't a stutter)

Posted 17:26 on 25 May 2011

FantasyMeister @ 87Sarah

FFXIV is out on PC, hasn't been released on PS3 yet, I'd estimate the PS3 release date to be in the last 1/3rd of 2011.

Posted 17:22 on 25 May 2011

Woffls

Unless it's a free-to-play model MMO that doesn't require much investment from either party, then this is a mistake. FFIV has not done well, and running 3 Final Fantasy MMO's at the same time? That's just bad business.

Posted 17:15 on 25 May 2011

Me too! I'm looking forward to this. It will be the first MMO I will have ever played.

Hang on, I thought they hadn't released FFXIV yet? Or has it just not been released on console?

Posted 16:55 on 25 May 2011

FantasyMeister

I'm interested in any MMO, and given that they must have learned a lot of lessons the hard way with FFXIV - which is now £5.00 from Amazon, still free to play and I still haven't bought it - I can't see the same happening again.

User-friendly + hard grind + soloable = perfect for me, and so far Square Enix have only distinguished themselves by the hard grind, if they get the other two right and offer a console option then it's a no brainer for me.

Posted 14:37 on 25 May 2011