Wed, Feb 17, 2010 | 21:02 GMT
Report – Final Fantasy XI to close this year to make room for FFXIV
According to a report on GameCrep, Square Enix is to shut down the online servers for Final Fantasy XI.
A human resources employee at the firm put up a personal blog which said the MMO, which has been up since 2002, will shut down this year to make room for Final Fantasy XIV.
That blog post has since been taken down.
When FFXI launched, it first appeared on PC before heading to Xbox 360 in 2005.
We’ll take this up with Square and hopefully get confirmation of something.
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Posted in: MMO, PC, Square Enix, Xbox 360
Tags: final fantasy xi, final fantasy XIV
8 comments
#1
locus2k1
17/02/10, 10:40 am
I can see many Tarus mourning this news…
#2
Blerk
17/02/10, 10:41 am
Seems unnecessarily risky. What if a whole bunch of those players don’t want to move to the new game?
#3
Galactic_Barret
17/02/10, 10:53 am
What the hell? What happened to supporting both. ‘If it still has a fanbase, we’ll continue to support it’ was something akin to what they stated when this subject was brought up. Seriously, SE, I’m getting sick of your bullshit.
#4
Moods
17/02/10, 11:08 am
Bullshit news, was an interview with SE last week in a Japanese magazine with the Head Producer, saying they will keep supporting both, and that they are already working on more content for FFXI…
#5
Kaufer
17/02/10, 11:08 am
Not this year. They promised they would give a one-year notice if they were to shut it down.
#6
Galactic_Barret
17/02/10, 11:21 am
They better not shut it down. I have a Lv. 75 DRK that I plan on going back to.
#7
Hunam
17/02/10, 11:21 am
That doesn’t sound right considering they released 3 dlc expansions only a short time ago.
#8
SplatteredHouse
17/02/10, 12:01 pm
This would be a poor move for Squeenix, especially after all the support XI’s received.