Quote Originally Posted by Aulayna View Post
I could've sworn they signed a deal with Nexon a few years back to convert XI into a mobile title?
I had definitely heard of the mobile title coming, but nothing about an offline game, so I did a bit of digging and found this Siliconera article from last May and only got a few takeaways from it.

https://www.siliconera.com/2018/05/1...fline-version/

Basically:

Since Final Fantasy XI’s content is still being developed using materials for PS2, making the data to construct Vana’diel for current generation consoles would require making development tools from scratch.
doing [a single player experience] for the sheer volume of the game would be costly.