Square Enix talks Final Fantasy XI on PS2 & Xbox 360
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 23:03:42
Final Fantasy XI has become somewhat legendary in that it was Square Enix’s first and remains its only. Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. Following its initial inception on PC in 2002/2003 it has since moved onto the PlayStation 2 and most recently. Xbox 360 accruing an impressive half a million subscribers from all around the world. In light of the fourth expansion pack. Wings of the Goddess the company spoke out on the game and on future plans.
To celebrate the bet’s eagerly awaited expansion pack. form Enix held a special event called the ‘Final Fantasy XI Fan Festival 2007′ over at the Anaheim Hilton in Southern California. Present was Industry website Gamasutra who Square Enix’s Vice President. Hiromichi Tanaka (who also acted as the Producer on the Final Fantasy XI communicate). Sage Sundi (Global Online Producer) plus other members from the bet’s development aggroup to communicate about the game and plans for the future. The full list of those also present includes Kouichi Ogawa (Director of Wings of the Goddess and Treasures of Aht Urhgan). Akihiko Matsui (Battle Director of FFXI). Mitsutoshi Gondai (Planner of FFXI) and Kenichi Iwao (Planner of FFXI).
Since the game’s fifth anniversary is on the horizon clearly the team is in high spirits but Hiromichi Tanaka states that actual development of the game began about eight years ago so obviously it is quite an achievement especially given the team only considered it might last five years on from that inform in measure! In terms of Final Fantasy XI’s popularity around the world the strongest territory by far is lacquer with half of the 500,000 subscribers being from that region whilst the remainder are a combination of the American and European territories. Sadly for form Enix the Xbox 360 has still failed to make much progress in Japan meaning that change surface though last year’s arrival of the game on Microsoft’s format was significant. “not many populate have the actual hardware to play it” in lacquer. However the company IS pleased with how a lot of the users in Europe and America are using the 360 edition. With the PlayStation 2 gradually slowing down in lacquer as Wii and Nintendo DS take over. Sage Sundi notes that whilst “At the release there were a lot more using the PS2 in lacquer…recently the trend has been that most players are moving to the PC versions.” Tanaka-san interjects to add that in North America there is also.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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