Monolith Soft Confirms Xenoblade Chronicles X Will Have Online Elements

Monolith Soft recently erected website for Xenoblade Chronicles X, and revealed that the game is in its final stages of development. Following their last update, the developers recently updated the official website once again, with a few more words.

In the latest developer blog post, Monlith shared a brief update on how they recently opened the website without asking Nintendo, which ended up being fine by the publishers; however, they soon faced a different problem: they underestimated how many hits the website would get.

Monolith didn’t anticipate the vast number of fans that would visited the newly-opened site, and as a result, had to deal with an overload, and figure out new server rental plans with the site’s host.

According to Monolith, the problem was mainly attributed to the number of people that downloaded the theme song on the front page, and also due to those that kept listening to it on loop. To fix the problem, they’ve decided to turn off the loop and lower the bit rate for the track.

Finally, at the end of their blog post, they teased, “Huh? Online elements? Of course [the game] will have some!”.

While we don’t know the full extent of these online elements yet, we can expect to hear about it soon. Director Tetsuya Takahashi also said to expect new information via their official Xenoblade account soon.

Xenoblade Chronicles X will release in Japan in Spring 2015 for Wii U.

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/11/11/monolith-soft-confirms-xenoblade-chronicles-x-will-online-elements/

Holy tits of anal sex! This is awesome news! Please have 4 player coop, please have 4 player coop, please have 4 player coop!

Yeah this is what Im hoping for, after all the MC is customisable... that has to be because we cant all look the same in MP.

Going on an adventure as epic as X with 3 friends would be just soo fap worthy!!! Gawd, this is gonna be soo epic! 

Well, as long as it isn't something that messes up the main story, then I love it. Nintendo needs more experiences like this anyway.

Usually the term "online elements" is a reference for features like leaderboard, messages between players ...etc

There is another possibility:

Drop-in, drop-out co-op where there is the MC but also a bunch the ability to control the other members of the party online. This could be a bit easier to work in with the main story. Of course, since this will work like Xenoblade almost certainly in that everyone follows you but only x number are in your party so it's not like you can "lose" plot central characters.

If it is standard online co-op, I wonder how you meet up? Maybe you can uplink at the various "vantage points" seen on the gamepad in the Direct? Or maybe the military outposts or BLADE Tower? And I wonder if any of the non-MC characters will appear in the cutscenes?

PS:  now I know why the quality of the soundtrack kept bouncing around all over the place xD .  Great to here the site got a lot of hits!

PPS:  aaaaaand there's the first downer.  That didn't take long :P

Online elements : DLC ?

Well, a lot of the gameXplain analysis for the trailers said otherwise cause according to those, there is a great chance that X would have online play. And also , these guys aren't exactly fluent in English although granted it could only be what u said but thats why I said "please have 4 player coop" instead of saying "it will have 4 player coop."

Miiverse integration probably?