Square Enix’s three MMORPGs- Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, and Dragon Quest X- all of them successful in their own right, will be getting a massive crossover event, reports Siliconera.

A sage from Dragon Quest X will take a great ark and visit the world of Final Fantasy XI, looking for a lost slime. This will initiate a Monstrosity event, where players can play as a Blue Slime. Players will be able to get special Slime gear.

Spriggan, a monster from Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, will also show up in Final Fantasy XI- apparently, moogles can talk to spriggans. Like with the Blue Slime, players will be able to play as a spriggan and get special equipment.

Over in Final Fantasy XIV, Shantotto, the powerful black mage from Final Fantasy XI, will show up in Eorzea; players will be able to join her in a FATE, where if you defeat her, you will be able to recruit her as a minion. Similarly, a golem from Dragon Quest X will show up as a FATE in Final Fantasy XIV, and if you defeat it, it can join you as a minion.

Shantotto will also be showing up in Dragon Quest X, where she puts you on a quest to recover lost items. If you do that, you win a Chocobo hat. Similarly, A moogle from Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will give Dragon Quest X players a quest too. Complete this and players get a Cactaur Mask.

The crossover events start December 11, when content from A Realm Reborn and Dragon Quest X will show up in Final Fantasy XI; Dragon Quest X will have the Final Fantasy XI crossover between January and February 2014. The Dragon Quest X and Final Fantasy XIV crossover will take place later, between February and March. Finally, the two crossovers for Final Fantasy XIV will take place in the end of January to early February 2014.

Square Enix director of business development Jacob Navok spoke to Polygon and stated that, “So up until now when we’ve talked about cloud gaming, we’ve mostly talking about streaming games. They weren’t really cloud games to us. Gaikai, OnLive and the other companies were just putting a console in the data center. They weren’t actually changing anything about it. There was a shift in the distribution model, there was a shift in the business, but there wasn’t a shift in the game design. It wasn’t a shift in technology.”

Taking Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the team rigged a tower of several hundreds of cardboard boxes together in-game and had the bottom box shout out, causing the remaining boxes to go flailing about. According to Square Enix, this wouldn’t be possible on a current console or PC. Another example of the “shift in technology” is showcasing the perspective of each party member in Final Fantasy XI all at once.

“Now we’re not saying the next Deus Ex game is going to be Deus Ex: Boxes, but you can imagine what we could do if these weren’t just boxes but people or NPCs or enemy characters or lots and lots of robots flying. We could possibly achieve real-time battles that look like battles in the Lord of the Rings movies.”

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Yoichi Wada, CEO of Square Enix, has revealed that Final Fantasy XI is the most profitable game they have produced. The game was released on the PC and Xbox 360 and has proved to be a strong performer, even after all these years.

Final Fantasy XIV meanwhile is one of the worst game launches ever, and seeks to undo all the good work they did with Final Fantasy XI. The game will be launched again on the PS3 next year. There are a lot of active players who have totaled up to 200,000 hours in the game.

“Looking at profitability, it’s the top of all past Final Fantasy games,” he said at the VanaFest 2012 event where a new expansion to Final Fantasy XI was announced. You can check out the trailer to that over here.

Fans of either of the Final Fantasy MMOs will be pleased to hear that Square Enix’s online servers will be up and running again on the 25th of March, 4pm PDT. The service was temporarily shut down following the Tohoku earthquake in Japan. 11.6% of the power used by Square Enix’s Tokyo office is used on these servers and in order to resume operation they have turned off their air conditioning and reduced their office lighting.

Thanks to Siliconera for the info.

The recent natural disasters that have struck Japan have forced the servers for Final Fantasy 14 and Metal Gear Online to shut down temporarily.

Square Enix has temporary halted service on Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV, while Konami has temporarily suspended Metal Gear Online. The stoppages appear to affect both in and outside of Japan.

The decisions follow a request from Japanese power companies that all consumers conserve electricity, particularly during peak hours.

Final Fantasy XI and XIV will be offline for a week until March 20, Square Enix said.

In comparison to the other devestation caused by the earthquakes in Japan this is really rather insignificant, but fans of these titles may wish to know. Our condolonces to all who are affected by the incidents in Japan at the moment.

Thanks to CVG for the info.

Bonus 1:

Save up to €5.95 on the base FINAL FANTASY XI Monthly Subscription Fee

Details:

• The FINAL FANTASY XI monthly subscription fee will be discounted from €12.95 to €7.00 and £8.99 to £5.00 per month on FINAL FANTASY XI accounts linked to the same Square Enix Account as FINAL FANTASY XIV.
  • Only applies to FINAL FANTASY XI subscriptions that are paid for by credit card
  • Does not apply to FINAL FANTASY XIV accounts during the free trial period on the 26^th of the month.
  • Does not apply to FINAL FANTASY XI accounts during the free trial period
  • Only applies to one FINAL FANTASY XI account for each FINAL FANTASY XIV account
  • Only applies to the base monthly subscription fee
  • This offer will remain in effect until January 2011
  • Additional fees will be incurred for additional FINAL FANTASY XI Content IDs.
• If you have multiple PlayOnline IDs, you can receive discounts according to the number of FINAL FANTASY XIV service accounts you have.
  • If you have multiple PlayOnline IDs linked to a Square Enix account with a single FINAL FANTASY XIV service account, you will be able to receive a discount for one of your PlayOnline IDs.
  • If you have multiple PlayOnline IDs linked to a Square Enix account with multiple FINAL FANTASY XIV service accounts, the number of PlayOnline IDs that you can receive discounts for will be the same as the number of FINAL FANTASY XIV service accounts on your Square Enix account.
• For example, if a Square Enix Account holder has two FINAL FANTASY XIV accounts and three FINAL FANTASY XI accounts, then the discount would only apply to two of the three FINAL FANTASY XI accounts.

Bonus 2:

A Special FINAL FANTASY XIV In-Game Item

Details:

• For qualifying players, all playable characters created on the FINAL FANTASY XIV  account will start the game with the bonus item automatically in their inventory.
• In order to qualify for the bonus item:
  • An active FINAL FANTASY XI account must be linked before the FINAL FANTASY XIV playable character is created
  • At the time the FINAL FANTASY XIV character is created, the FINAL FANTASY XI content ID registered to the linked FINAL FANTASY XI account must not be invalid or cancelled
  • Does not apply to FINAL FANTASY XI accounts during the free trial period

Bonus 3:

Transfer Your FINAL FANTASY XI Character Name into FINAL FANTASY XIV

Details:

• When creating a new playable character on a FINAL FANTASY XIV account, a character name used from the linked FINAL FANTASY XI account can be transferred to FINAL FANTASY XIV.
  • Transfer of a FINAL FANTASY XI playable character name will not be applicable in the following instances:
    • If the FINAL FANTASY XIV playable character is created before an active FINAL FANTASY XI account is linked
    • If, at the time that the FINAL FANTASY XIV character is created, the Content ID on the linked FINAL FANTASY XI is invalid or has been cancelled
    • Does not apply to FINAL FANTASY XI accounts during the free trial period
    • If no FINAL FANTASY XI character exists on the linked FINAL FANTASY XI account
• Please note that in some instances, it may take upwards of 24 hours for the FINAL FANTASY XI character name to be available in FINAL FANTASY XIV.
• When prompted, upon selecting the FINAL FANTASY XI character name as the FINAL FANTASY XIV playable character name, the transferred name will be the FINAL FANTASY XI player character name + FINAL FANTASY XI world name the character resides in.
• Example:
  • FINAL FANTASY XI Player Character Name: Destiny
  • FINAL FANTASY XI World Name: Odin
  • The resulting FINAL FANTASY XIV character name [after transfer]: Destiny Odin

The bonuses announced in this release only apply to the Windows version. Bonuses for the PlayStationÒ 3 version will be announced at a later time.

Please note that bonuses are not valid if the FINAL FANTASY XIV account is cancelled during the free 30-day trial period.