After Final Fantasy’s Fanfest at Anaheim Hilton, South California, Gamasutra got a nice scoop on the developers’ future plans on making an MMO.

Looks like they’re torn between making it the next Final Fantasy Online or a completely new one.

“As you might already know, members from the current FFXI team are working on a next generation MMO, but it still hasn’t been decided whether that’s going to be a game in the FF series, a continuation, or a totally new game. said Square Enix’s vice president and producer of Final Fantasy XI Hiromichi Tanaka. “We are working on it, but it hasn’t been decided that far yet.”

One of the interview’s highlights was when the FFXI team was asked if games like World of Warcraft affected the number of players of FFXI. It seems like they’re confident with the MMO they made.

“Actually, we haven’t been affected that much by WoW. When FFXI hit its peak users was about the time that WoW was released, and when it was released we didn’t see a big reduction in the players. It’s pretty much been about the same.”

More from the team: “We feel that with a lot of MMORPGs on the market, players have the choice of the one they want to go to and they’ll try them out and then they’ll stick with one — and we see that people who chose FFXI have stuck with it.”

Read the full interview here.

W-h J: I wonder what made them think twice in continuing their under development game in attaching it to the legendary Final Fantasy series? Unless it’s an original concept, I can’t help but wonder if they’re really unaffected by WoW’s popularity.

(Source: Gamasutra)

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