duzee wrote...
By the way, Sony and PlayOnline are two different companies. It doesn't matter whether or not Sony's service is free, you'll still have to pay a monthly fee for PlayOnline to renew your subscription.
Square Enix already announced that they won't be using PlayOnline for this game.
I highly doubt that SE will make it free. It's probably going to be a subscription based game like FFXI.
Right now they have only announced it for the PC and PS3 but said they are "considering Microsoft hardware". I guess that means the 360. I would imagine that porting a game to multiple platforms isn't easy.
As for soloable content, they announced that they plan on including much more and reducing the need for having to party up to gain levels.
I think the most interesting aspect of the game that has been announced is that they said FFXIV will not have the traditional experience point leveling up system. Rather they said that a player's choice of weapons will greatly affect their development.
They say the game is focused on weapons and character growth, and that one day you use one weapon, and another you use a next, will affect how your character develops.
Very interesting.