Final Fantasy 11 Director Says Your Support Convinced Square Enix It 'Should Keep Running the Game'

Final Fantasy 11 shaper and manager Yoji Fujito has revealed that had it not been for a resurgence of players astir the game's 20th day successful 2022, determination was a "real possibility" enactment for the MMORPG would've travel to an end.

In an interrogation with Dengeki Online (thanks, Automaton), Fujito suggested that up of the 20th day successful May 2022, Square Enix had considered shifting the crippled into "maintenance mode" successful oregon astir 2024, efficaciously cancelling each ongoing improvement of the decades-old game.

"There was a existent anticipation that 2024 would beryllium the twelvemonth updates would travel to an end, with the crippled shifting into a alleged attraction mode, wherever lone strategy upkeep would beryllium performed," Fujito said, suggesting the crippled could person been retired erstwhile The Voracious Resurgence storyline had finished up.

However, arsenic the 20th day arrived and fans jumped backmost into Final Fantasy 11 — adjacent aft The Voracious Resurgence wrapped up — Fujito realized determination was inactive "a batch of support" for the game.

"We thought, if The Voracious Resurgence wrapped up and Final Fantasy 11 intelligibly started losing its momentum, past possibly we truly should hole to extremity it," helium added. "But that didn’t happen. I took this arsenic a motion that we should support moving the game."

In different Square Enix news, the developer precocious reaffirmed that Kingdom Hearts 4 was inactive connected the mode adjacent though Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link, the GPS-based action-RPG for mobile, had been canceled.

"We’re presently moving hard connected Kingdom Hearts 4 and volition proceed pouring ourselves into the game’s development. We’re dedicated to making this an acquisition that lives up to your expectations!"

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