Well it wouldn't have to. The game would connect to Square Enix's servers. Its their system. Its probably how all console MMORPGs would work. Live is just for competition or regular mutli-player. There's communities and stuff. Like you could run Diablo 2 on your own server if you knew what you were doing. But most would prefer to be part of the Blizzard community rather than just friends (or in Live's case, random junkies?). I dunno how to describe it. But I understand why they would seperate themselves from Live.