I could've sworn that Final Fantasy XI had the second biggest market share and subscriber base for a good, long while there. I mean, it's still gotta be selling pretty decently, they released the "Ultimate Collection" on Steam less than a year ago and are currently offering the "Ultimate Collection - Abyssea Edition" (only difference - kinda overpowered exclusive item that makes the first 30 levels less of a hassle).
 
Edit: Also, I still want my True Fantasy Live Online, Level-5. :(

Square Enix... modern day Zeerust game creators. (?!)

A new MMO because they want to do it right this time.
 
seriously...
 
for reals....

Maybe they need another game to bring in the revenue because XIV isn't bring in the cash.

Heh, as soon as I read the blurb to this article I knew it was written by Alex x)

Anybody want to hear a joke?  Okay. 
 
Square Enix.

Really? Another one? I can't help but view Square Enix as the Titanic. For a long while, I thought it was an unsinkable ship where my hopes for good games could rest easy. Now, my expectations are pushing women and children out of the way to get into one of the longboats. 
 
I mean, fuck. What happened to SE?

When you know you're gonna fail, fail big.

I never much cared for any of Square-Enix's games, but I can't help but feel kinda sorry for them. They seem to be attempting to take the Nintendo route of "lets make games only for our diehard fans", but the problem there is that Nintendo can do that because they have such a large base. Outside of the diehard FF community, no one really cares about Square. I also think they have some false delusion that owning Eidos is enough to keep them connected to Western gaming, which is completely false.

This is just going to be another train wreck. FFXIV was unbelievably bad...even by MMO standards.
 
So out of touch.

If Squeenix is seriously putting out another MMO, they need to shop it out to somebody else. Some studio they swallowed up must be able to produce a playable game. I played FFXI for years, but it was never not broken. It looks like 14 is doomed to the same fate.

I think this amounts to Square saying, "Dude, we're screwed! We need something we can milk subscribers for their sweet nutritious money with."

I'm always interested in new MMOs, even though I might not be very interested in playing them.

Wada believes that the company having two-to-three different online subscription-based titles will help maintain the company's cash flow.

Because people are going to just play all of them, right? Pretty sure that's what all these MMOers do...

Oh c'mon, I understand that they have several guys paying monthly fees but hey, don't they see the the stupidity of their decisions? lol

God, what is wrong with Squeenix? They are running their company into the ground.

I stand by my long standing opinion that the downfall began with the merger. You had two companies competing and making each other better. Now you have one company lazily making titles that are lackluster and lacking any innovation. I miss Square Soft.

Pic caption made me laugh.

I guess Squenix just got tired of being a company.

Please don't be a numbered a numbered Final Fantasy MMO. Please don't be a Final Fantasy MMO.
 
Please don't be an MMO.

Unless it is secret of mana or chrono trigger  MMO and they are changeing there name back to square Soft and making good games again that are not endless crap final fantasy games starting with final fanatsy 7.
 
I dont give a fuck..  
 
Hell I would even take secret of evermore MMO  just to see if square can make anything other than crap final fantasy games again.  (Hint Tthey can not thats why they bought Edios to make worse games than they do so they look better next to them because edios has sucked since it;s inception)

I will never get tired of your headlines, Navarro. Never.

Rofl, Square your so Fucking Retarded. Beat your main franchise into a pulp till even your fans start to drop out, and make lots of shitty MMO's, BRILLIANT!

WHYYYYYYY? They don't seem to get it.

Square Enix, you so crazy.

Well, best of luck I guess.

Well, I have to think they learned some kind of lesson with FFXIV, and therefore they won't release whatever this MMO is until its actually ready to be released. All the ideas and concepts of FFXIV were great, so I imagine if they can actually spend some time on this new game before it comes out, it probably will be great.
 
I'll not get my hopes up, but I very much doubt it could be any worse than FFXIV.

I'm sure they want to refine the FF14 engine and try to make a better MMO out of it 
and not just let the years of development go to waste. 
I mean the catgirls were cute, right? Yeah, maybe a new game with.. cat girls and CAT MEN! 
Meee-ow!

Played quite a bit of FFXI back in the day, got to the point where you needed a band of 24+ dedicated people to do anything and kinda gave up. Came back late after a bunch of adjustments were made and was fairly satisfied with the changes.

Have not touched FFXIV as it sounds like much of FFXI's original mistakes made their way back in and they are nit fixed yet. Will probably not give this new mmo much thought.

XD This is gonna be what they announce at E3 instead of Kingdom Hearts III? I love you, Square. YOU SO SILLY!

FFXI was excellent. XIV was garbage, but anyone who says XI was crap just doesn't like that style of MMO. XI was brilliant in its time.  

About 11 months ago they said they were intending on fixing FF14 cause they knew how bad it was. Guess some guy was just like "fuck it, lets put this behind us and try again".

I think this isn't what we think it is.    Just because Sqenix is releasing a game doesn't mean it's their FF studio by any means - it could be from a small studio.  It could also be a low-budget, sprite-based thing along the lines of Dungeon Fighter - you know, something that could be run on any machine, browser-based, cheap to play, integrated with Facebook or iOS or both.   Maybe a Kingdom Hearts-based MMO brawler. With the exception of Guild Wars 2, that's pretty much the only kind of MMO I'd be interested in at the moment, and I don't think the more MMO-focused gamers would trust Square with another big-budget thing.

XD This is gonna be what they announce at E3 instead of Kingdom Hearts III?

Remember waaay back when Squaresoft and Enix made awesome, unique games with depth that you just couldn't put down? Those companies are dead.

Dragon Quest MMO possibly?

You know it'll be FFXIV-2..... 
 
Because Squenix is cool like that!

I'm betting it'll be casual. It has to be at this point.

FFXI was pretty awesome and worthy of a sequel.  It wasn't for everyone but it was something truly unique and special.  FFXIV though... man that game was one of the worst I have ever played.  Honestly they need to make a more modern FFXI.  FFXIV was something completely different and total garbage.

Well, maybe they've learned the lesson that FFXIV taught them. Maybe this one will be half-decent. Seems a bit of a kick in the pants to those who bought FFXIV, hoping that with repeated patches it would get better, but now have to accept the fact that XIV will wither and die and be replaced with something else. 

FFXIV had beautiful visuals, but had terrible game design. In the beta, not sure now, you could only do along the lines of three quests and two crafting quest. They were simple kill x monsters get a reward quest. The problem was there was a two real day waiting period before you can do quests again! Apparently, it's a balancing design so people who play less won't be left behind. The reality of their design decision was penalizing people wanted to play their game.
 
If this new mmo is another final fantasy mmo as a ditch and run effort from their last one, I hope they get it better this time and I can't wait to try it.

you'd think an MMO from Square Enix would be awesome. And then FFXIV came out. 
 
so don't screw this up please.

I completely forgot there was even supposed to be a PS3 version of FF XIV. Wow.

That image caption is amazing.

Remember waaay back when Squaresoft and Enix made awesome, unique games with depth that you just couldn't put down? Those companies are dead.

It's been apparent for some period of time now that my (formerly) favourite game company has absolutely no clue what they are doing.

@Little_Socrates said:

XD This is gonna be what they announce at E3 instead of Kingdom Hearts III? I love you, Square. YOU SO SILLY!

Kingdom Hearts III was already announced earlier this year.  Nomura confirmed it's the next game after Versus XIII is done.

It's been apparent for some period of time now that my (formerly) favourite game company has absolutely no clue what they are doing.