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The Final Fantasy series is coming to Xbox Game Pass

It’s just the single-player mainline games for now

The big two games missing from this list are Final Fantasy's two MMOs, Final Fantasy XI and XIV. However, speaking to members of the press at X019 earlier today, Microsoft's gaming chief, Phil Spencer, said that the company plans to bring Final Fantasy 14 to the service at a later date. "I wanted you to know, rest assured that we will be bringing that game to Xbox," said Spencer. "We have a great relationship with Yoshida-san and we're working through what it means to bring [to Xbox] a cross-platform MMO that they've run for years."

Sony opening crossplay helped I guess.
 

Musubi

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About damn time. That's like free money on the table for both Microsoft and Square.
 

Gunny T Highway

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This has been rumored for a while but at least it is confirmed. The more people that play the best Final Fantasy the better.
 

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Hopefully Yoshi-P didn't give into Phil, here. The big sticking point for years was that MS wanted seperate servers, I really hope that Phil was the one who gave in and that Xbox players are on the regular servers
 

Kalor

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Nice to see that more people will be able to play soon. There was a rating leak a while back so it's been a long time coming.
 

Samaritan

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Hell yeah! The more people who are able to play this game, the better. Fresh sprouts!
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Otakukidd

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Kinda was hoping it would skip xbone and world be built on Scarlett. Reason being I was hoping they would remove PS4 support for a ps5 version eventually. Kinda like what they did with the PS3.
 

rpm

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No. Seems that the main hurdle always was Sony blocking crossplay (which Yoshi P always said was necessary to put the game on any other platform).
The hurdle here was MS, not Sony.
Yoshi-P on 6/26/19 said:
Two months ago, I discussed with Phil Spencer. I have explained this before but we are prepared to do crossplay at any time. To play an MMORPG, there are 2 regulations for Microsoft which stand in the way of making crossplay feasible. Unless these regulations are rejected, there is no meaning. Simply speaking, the matching base FPS style game has no issues with those 2 regulations. If we had made an FPS game [had FF14 been one of those games], then we would already have crossplay. One of the regulations is that players with different platforms cannot chat with each other in-game. Then how do you play an MMO? The other regulation is you cannot make a community with plays on a different platform. You can't form a guild, you can't enter into a link shell, [and] no free company. So I would like to have Microsoft change their regulations. And this is not limited to Microsoft but there are many players who only have crossplay experience with FPS games, especially with the business scene. For an MMORPG, a game which full communication is possible, regulations need to be created considering how massive an MMORPG is to have true crossplay. Final Fantasy XIV will not release crossplay without making this clear because that would only hurt the players. I think we can only try to continue having our discussions with those parties [to communicate and relay what is needed].
 

logash

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Gratz to Xbox players! Such a great game. Experience it first before we all get to enjoy Yoshi P's FF16(Please)...
 

Jom

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The hurdle was both.
Sony blocking crossplay, and MS having weird policies (that they've removed since).
Nah it's never been because of Sony. Even in Spencer's comments there you can see that he's implying it's them.

"MS is still working out what it means blah blah"

Glad MS is finally willing to change their policies and allow crossplay on this game though. It means that they will not be able to allow Xbox players to turn on a setting to only play with other Xbox players.
 

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Will get it on there if the base version ends up cheaper than a month of sub. Same reason why I own the Playstation versions.

Literally posting this while I'm standing around in Kholusia, gathering mats for the restoration so it's not like I'd really need any extra options, still intend to show my support for it tho.
 

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Speaking as a humble human being, I implore Final Fantasy fans on Xbox to check out this quality video game
 

Arkeband

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Really hope it doesn't slow down production having to support another set of consoles, but the small boost to player count it'll add will be welcome.
 

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No. Seems that the main hurdle always was Sony blocking crossplay (which Yoshi P always said was necessary to put the game on any other platform).
You will have to give reciepts about this, This was never about sony blocking crossplay for 14 and about xbox denying the game multiple times. It's only been recently that square has said they made progress with xbox to bring the game over.