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Final Fantasy XIV director wants pitches for a single-player spinoff, though he's 'half-joking'

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(Image credit: Square Enix) Despite the massively multiplayer angle, MMOs can be quite lonely games—and if you play them for very long, you'll learn there are plenty of people who play them specifically to solo as much as they can. That can mean casually clearing the story or going sicko mode by killing a raid boss intended for a fully kitted-out group. But what would, say, Final Fantasy 14 look like as a true solo game? Director Naoki Yoshida, otherwise known as Yoshi-P, wants to hear some ideas. He said as much during this weekend's Fan Festival (via GameSpot ) after he was asked if he'd thought about making a single player version or spinoff of FF14 for players who don't care to play a Final Fantasy game wrapped up in all the MMO trappings that define 14. "There are still a lot of people out there who look at an online Final Fantasy and they say, 'Well, an online Final Fantasy isn't a real Final Fantasy,'" he said via translation.…

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