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| DarkZero 833th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):Microsoft Explains True Fantasy Live On"
, posted Thu 24 Jun 16:20
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1up.com has a translation of a response from Microsoft about the cancellation of True Fantasy Live Online which reveals a bit more information.
Probably the most interesting bit is the beginning of the first answer:
Q: How far along in development was TFLO?
A: The virtual world of True Fantasy Live Online was relatively complete. It was a living, breathing virtual world by the time we concluded development.
That's pretty sad. Was there any real reason behind why Microsoft cancelled this?
Creating the quests and the visual world of an MMORPG are really just a small part of the entire undertaking. Whereas a normal game would have nothing left to finish after that but a little bit of bug testing, an MMO still has to address bugs, balance issues, the economy, PvP (if any), closed beta testing, server bugs, server stress testing, and implementing a system for creating new quests and events that don't automatically break all of the normal game content around them.
Just look a World of Warcraft. The closed beta still has a long, long way to go before they even begin the open beta, and it seems like they haven't even put a lot of thought into PvP yet. Even though the beta started a few months ago, it probably won't be ready until after Christmas, and it's already way ahead of where TFLO was when it was cancelled. At best, TFLO would've been ready some time around summer 2005 or Christmas 2005. AT BEST. With Microsoft planning to be the first one out of the gate with a new console, there's hardly any chance that TFLO would earn the Xbox any new converts in Japan during the Christmas 2005 season. So it would just sit there, having taken years to develop, servicing a few thousand Japanese players and maybe a small niche audience in the United States. It would've been a total waste of money.
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