FFXIV Platforms

Playstation 3 and Windows are the only confirmed ones at this time. Senior Vice President Shinji Hashimoto stated "We are considering all options at this time, including Microsoft hardware." By this statement it is safe to assume an Xbox 360 version is not out of the question yet.

Release Date

FFXIV is currently scheduled for release sometime in 2010. It will be launched across all platforms, in all regions simultaneously.

Price

TBA

Subscription Fee

The game will have a subscription fee although it has been posted as TBA in the official NA website.

ESRB Rating

Pending

Main Staff

Producer: Hiromichi Tanaka

Director: Nobuaki Komoto

Art Director: Akihiko Yoshida

Music: Nobuo Uematsu

FFXIV is set in a new world called Eorzea and this is the most solid information about the game known so far. No other specifics have been given at this time.

Connection to FFXI

When asked about connections to FFXI Tanaka said "These are different races, a different world than FFXI, the name of the world is Eorzea. The reason we made them similar in FFXI was so that the players who have been playing XI and liked the character can choose a similar type of race. An example of why we did this, is like we have one actor in many movies--in one movie he's an assassin robot, in another it's a spy, but it's the same guy. We want you to think of it the same way." By this statement races could possibly have different stat growth or even a different role. It is all specualtion at this time so take it as you may.

Differences from FFXI

Komoto said, "As with WOW, they're aimed at the casual user. We're aiming for more casual users. However, we don't want to make a copy of WOW. We want to be unique."

When asked about the differences from FFXI, Komoto said "We will have the same type of storytelling and expand on in-game systems. The player will be able to grow and develop in a natural way. It shouldn't put a lot of weight on the player itself, and through this, we'll develop the job system into something quite different."

Tanaka added, "FFXI has gotten better. For FFXIV we want to make it so that if you want to play in a party, you can, if you want to play solo you can, or if you want to play all day, you can. We will have game systems and content there for all types of people."

They also said it will have content for solo gamers and extremely large battles for those who play in groups. It was also confirmed to have many players vs one battles and many players vs many enemies battles. Tanaka also confirms that the servers will be worldwide, and there will also be cross-platform servers.