Square Enix FFXIV Conference Blog

About the free to play rumors circulating: No pricing has been set as of yet. And that's it. Pretty much a FFXIV session.

No porting of characters from IX to XIV (makes sense, different worlds). Can transfer friends lists however.

Specifically, the Galka fighting scene in the trailer was in-engine.

Parts of trailer at Sony's press conference were pre-rendered and parts were from the in-game engine.

Simultaneous worldwide release for XIV. Multi-platform and multi-region beta coming.

Making more content for solo players as well as large scale battles as were in FFIX.

FFXI will be concurrently supported with FFXIV. At least another year of support (content) planned.

FFXIV: Set in a different world so different races. However, the races are similar as not to alienate FFXI players.

That was about FFXIV by the way. The start of this conference seems focused on that game.

Exclusivity update. It's coming to PS3 and PC. They are considering other hardware. (Xbox not completely out of the question yet then.)

Panel consisting of Nobuaki Komoto, Hiromichi Tanaka, and Shinju Hashimoto.

Rundown of the Square Enix lineup as we know: FFXIII and FFXIV, Dissidia, FFC:CB, Front Mission Evolved, KH: 358/2 Days, Nier, Order of War, Supreme Commander 2, FFIV: TAY, and FFCC: MLAADL

Great joke from G4TV.com (credit Brian Leahy): " I think the localization team for FFXIII is running this event." (running late)

Pretty interested in seeing what comes out of Square. The FFXIV online caught me off guard yesterday. Wonder what other surprises are here.

Square Enix Press Conference at 1PM Central. Should be able give some updates as it comes along.