As I’ve said before, Square Enix has a long history of going away from the norm on a design level and a corporate level. If you’re one of the unbelieving heathens who looked at Final Fantasy XIV and thought “well this will just continue diminishing until there’s nothing left of the development team,” I’m going to hit you on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. Not only are you wrong, you couldn’t be any more off-base unless Square Enix turned out to have never existed and the Final Fantasy series was an M Night Shyamalan film.
Dual Shockers has an article noting that Square Enix is not only not downsizing the Final Fantasy XIV team, they’re hiring more people to work on the resurfacing MMO. Eleven new positions have been created, with another confirmation that the PS3 version is still in development.
As part of this new initiative, I will be shipping Yoshi-P a new t-shirt to wear around the office that says “troll-proof.”
MMO Fallout 
I am scared. FFXI was my fav omprmg from 2005-2008 but XIV just plain sucked and still does to this day. I can’t imagine what they are planning to accomplish with this mmo when XIV still is not up to par yet. They should make XIV great and build some sort of fan base before releasing another mmo. Also i hope they learned their lesson from xiv and this new mmo has a way better launch and it worthy of a monthly fee at launch. I suspect that XIV will remain free to play forever. You cant spend 1 and a half to 2 years rebuilding a game then say well we think its alright now sorry for the wait you can start paying us now .