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The Square Enix Press Conference from E3 2009 was delayed by an hour, but things are a go now. Check back for word on what's going on as it happens.

Final Fantasy XIV appears to be the primary focus. FF XIV will be coming to PC and PS3, but they are also considering other hardware, including Microsoft.

Regarding ties to Final Fantasy XI, although some of the races will be similar the world will be very different. They have made the races similar in FFXIV to FFXI so that FFXI players can related better to the characters.

Development will continue for FFXI and will not be ditched with the launch of FFXIV. They have a year planned for FFXI development still in the works.

Action or turn-based? They will not discuss combat at this time.

Like with WoW, they want to aim the game at casual users.

Content for solo players and large-scale battles at launch.

Worldwide simultaneous launch for PS3 and PC, with English, Japanese, German, and French supported.

Servers set up that are cross-platform and cross-region, they finalize during beta testing to see how balance and player experience is.

Regarding feedback from FFXI players, yes and they will continue to seek feedback moving into beta.

Separate communities for FFXI and FFXIV or try to move subscribers over to XIV? They hope people will play both.

Localize in Spanish? No, but it will be considered if there is a demand. They will do market research.

Any MMO elements that will help improve on the genre? They want to make the best Final Fantasy game available, which is why they decided to make it a MMORPG. They want to implement a lot of new systems that haven't been seen in past MMOs.

Why not just evolve FFXI? FFXI was designed for the PS2, then moved to PC and 360, porting to new technology would take too much, they want to create something new.

Yesterday's trailer was pre-rendered with parts running on the in-game engine.

They hope to have both large-scale battles, many vs. many and many vs. one (/gasp)

For FFXIV they will have the same type of storytelling and high quality graphics, but also want to expand on in-game systems. The player should be able to grow and develop in a more natural way without putting too much burden on the player. The job system will be quite different from the one in FFXI.

All players can choose to play solo, or in a party, they can play for a short time or a long time and there will be content for all play styles.

There is no beta schedule or release date for the game yet. They should have more beta information available soon. But at this time there is no word as to whether XI players will receive automatic invites.

There will be no way to port FFXI characters into XIV, the games are too completely different. But in XIV you CAN create similar characters to those you enjoy in XI.

They will not be using Play Online but friends lists can transfer over.

Why should players choose FFXIV? They believe that people will fall in love with the world and story.

Is it true that this title will be a free-to-play? It is still TBD!

That is the end of the Q&A.

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