Shortly after Square-Enix's surprise annoucement of Final Fantasy XIV Online, the official website was already up and accessible. While not containing a ton of information at the moment, it does confirm that FFXIV will also make an appearance on the PC. If you missed the trailer shown during the press conference, you can watch it in much higher quality at the site. Additionally, there are a bunch of screenshots, and they look GORGEOUS. Sure, most of them are from the trailer and are pre-rendered, but that doesn't make them any less pretty. Go ahead and check them out.
I know I'll probably buckle and end up buying this. Let's just hope that, unlike Final Fantasy XI, I make it past the free month.
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4:42 PM on 06.02.2009
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When has that ever stopped PC game devs?
Mithra confirmed! Also, at the end of the trailer we get a look at three heroes and a Chocobo. The heroes were from left to right, Elvaan, Hume, Galka. This is definitely Vana'diel from FFXI. All that's missing is a Tarutaru!
Hopefully the big differences come in gameplay... especially pacing ;d
@covah
Not going to happen, servers cost money.
But I mean look at blizzard, think how much friggen profit they have with just the subscriptions to WoW, I'm just they broke even a looooong time ago.
anyway, so its FF14 vs NCsoft upcoming Aion for 2009 mmo perhaps
I for one can't wait to see what they have to offer. FFXI was a great fucking game, but it was hard, and frustrating. I expect this game to be more main stream, but at the same time having a lot of its annoying qualities, that I'll have to deal with. This is a pick up on day one for sure, hopefully a release on PC at the same time because I'd rather play this on my computer than on a TV.
Jesus I had to go to rehab to overcome FF11... I made a post about how I feel about this... I hope they fix all the FF11 issues that made it a pain in the ass.
Arr! You're right! T.T I guess I was jumping for something there. :)
Still, this may the mmo to replace ffxi for me.