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Producer: "FF XIV Will Always Be FF XIV"
Final Fantasy XIV may have "greatly damaged" the Final Fantasy brand, but isn't the game it was when it launched in September last year. It has been receiving tweaks since release, but the troubled game's producer says that it will never be a completely different game.
In an interview, FFXIV producer Naoki Yoshida spoke to Gamasutra about the upcoming changes. "Players, community websites, and the gaming media may see the roadmap we have provided and take it as, 'Oh, they’re creating a completely different game,' but this is not the case. FFXIV will always be FFXIV and nothing else."
That isn't to say that the team isn't making improvements. A new engine is one of the larger modifications, built from the ground up to accomodate the active world of MMOs (as opposed to the more static environments in single-player RPGs). This and other changes are leading up to a full-fledged launch of FFXIV version 2.0 sometime in 2013. The PS3 version of the game will be launching in that timeframe also.
While I'm glad to hear that Square Enix is serious about addressing the game's problems, a year seems like a long time to wait for a title that already has already disappointed gamers once.
(Source: Gamasutra)
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