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Final Fantasy XIV
Final Fantasy XIV is the followup FF-branded MMORPG from Square Enix. Rumors of it's development began fairly early in Final Fantasy XI's life. At E3 2005, Square showed off the "Rapture" tech demo, which threw a tanker on the fire of rumors about FFXI being replaced.
As the decade roared on, FFXIV's development actually picked up and the rumor mill concerning what was commonly referred to as "Rapture" for years kept brewing. FFXI players assumed that Rapture's launch would be the death of their favorite game, or that players would be able to migrate their existing characters to the new game.
In an early 2009 investor's call, Yoichi Wada discussed how FFXI wouldn't last forever and Square was looking ahead to their next flagship MMO.
Fast forward to Hiromichi Tanaka and a lot of the veteran FFXI development team being focused on FFXIV and launching a poorly received FFXIV in late 2010. The story of FFXIV's disastrous launch and revival is better told elsewhere and has been. Long story short is that FFXIV's arrival was supposed to signal the end of days for FFXI and it frankly never happened.
