An MMO should requier more work from devs than a regular RPG... look at WoW, you can play through it about 4 times without doing much of the same stuff (different zones with different stories because of the 2 continents). An RPG has to be more linear and offers little replay value.
My reasoning is just to say that if they can deliver an MMO, they could have delivered a standalone. If you're an FFXI player than this is great news, but for the rest of us, we either chose not to play time sucking MMOs or to play an other one. Add to this that you'll only be playing one at a time (for obvious reasons), there are heavy contenders on the way (star wars for one).
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