his director resigns and future DLCs are canceled

In a recent special live broadcast of Square Enix, Hajime Tabata, director of of Final Fantasy XV announced his impending resignation from Luminous Productions and Square Enix Group. As a result, three of the downloadable content announced in April this year were also canceled.

Tabata was also director of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and . Final Fantasy Type-0 replacing Tetsuya Nomura as director of FFXV since 2013, in turn dedicated to Kingdom Hearts III . Through his studio Luminous Productions, a subsidiary of Square Enix, he sought to promote triple A titles with innovative technology.

With respect to Final Fantasy XV the announced plan of DLC in four episodes entitled The Dawn of the Future has just been published. will let see the light on "Ardyn Episode", which will take place 30 years before the main story. This episode will be published in March 2019 . However, the episodes of Aranea, Lunafreya and Noctis will never have this opportunity despite their previous announcement.

A "Prologue of the episode Ardyn" was announced, taking advantage of the occasion, constituting a breakthrough in the form of short films to be premiered. December and January 10. On the other hand, the multiplayer mode Brothers of Arms & # 39; FFXV will be released as an independent product for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on December 12 . This new version will include new patterns, costumes and weapons. It will cost $ 9.99 but will be free for those who had already purchased the previous edition.

Finally, Final Fantasy XV will collaborate with Final Fantasy XIV as part of the event "An Adventurer from Another World", which will also begin on December 12 . Completing this event will give multiplayer players online a costume.

This news from FFXV comes shortly after a financial report from Square Enix revealing an extraordinary loss of $ 33 million, probably because of the change of focus of Luminous Productions. The cancellation of any future content and even the resignation of Tabata would be directly related to that.

And in this way, it is as if, in the end, we could bid farewell to the critical division of Final Fantasy XV .

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Via: Game Informer