My thoughts exactly.

The reaction in the Sony E3 thread here at VGC was exactly the same :)

online... but still very cool announcement and reactions...

Zizzla, I'm not trying to insult you.

That out of the way, as of now it's console exclusive. I hate the title, but that's all Sony said.

If other people want to go around taunting it as exclusive, then I'll correct them as well.

PPL READ THIS COMMENT^^....IT WILL CHANGE COMPLETELY ONCE FF14 IS ANNOUNCE FOR 360 MARK MY WORDS.

Had a similar reaction. There is a reason I have never played FFXI. What are SquEnix thinking with this really?

What you didn't want to pay a monthly fee, have a good connection, or just didn't want a ps2 hard drive  if your pc wasn't good enouph?

FFXI made them a CRAP LOAD of money, and is still profitable for them today as many Asian countries and a small but strong following of NA and EU gamers still play. Now that MMO games can actually run on consoles without the need of buying an HDD (well you might need to if you have an xbox and the release it on that which i think they will) and a Network Adapter.

Personally I'm craptasticly happy about this. My E3 wishlist was Monster Hunter Frontier 2 with an NA release, and Rapture.  Rapture was the codename for Sqaure-Enix's next MMO, ala Final Fantasy XIV.  I'm jumping up and down happy for this thing. It's funny when i walked into gamestop today JJ and Tim were just started yelling to me," Dude! Day one buy, we're making a guild or linkshell"

If you notice there are people in here saying they will pay for a subscription. If that's the case then they just need a following like the last game to make profit up the yin yang.

...try all 3. I have a PS3 with free online gaming and keeping in mind that I'm UK based where Final Fantasy XI never came out on PS2. I understand why but I'm dissappointed. I don't play MMORPGs. Never have. And I feel a little cheated as while FFXII is a good game, it doesn't feel Final Fantasy to me so I don't feel like I've played a proper FF game since... well X-2.

But hey, if they can get it out on time then good to them, I guess FFXIII being delayed has allowed the FFXIV team more development time. :P

If you just don't play MMO's then you will be getting Final Fantasy XIII the same year. Everyones happy :P Also the battle system in FFXIV has completely changed evidently.

Pretty much though they're not stupid doing this. Like i said FFXI made them a crap load of profit and still does today, and now that they can get more people actually playing the game. You now have a internet connected ps3, with a hard drive, and it might even be free to play so i would say give it a chance, it's not gonna cost you a fortune and make you buy a bunch of stuff like the ps2 version made you do.

They still have 2 million people playing it as recorded in april 22nd 2009, that there is already enouph to warrent it will get a decent amount of sales.

I will get FFXIII on PS3 when they finish the 360 version and decide to release it in the UK in 2010 or whenever. As per usual, i'm sure FFXIV will arrive 1 year after Japanese release so 2011. It's just not the same as the old days when you had FFVIII to X within a few years of each other.

If it is free online play with my PS3, I will consider it. If the play style is very different like you mention.