The creator of Discord is such a Final Fantasy 11 fan that he essentially created the entire platform for talking to friends while playing the MMO

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Square Enix’s first attempt at turning Final Fantasy into an MMO was instrumental in the creation of Discord, especially since it gave creator Stanislav Vishnevskiy a space to talk about Final Fantasy 11.

Speak with Famitsu (Thank you, Siliconenra), Vishnevskiy says the first versions of Discord came about when he was in school because he wanted a space to talk about Final Fantasy 11 with his friends.

It wasn’t until he met co-founder Jason Citron when he took a job at game developer GREE that Discord really started to take off. The pair essentially took what Vishnevskiy used and made it available to many, many more people.

Speaking about the idea behind creating Discord way back in his FF11 days, Vishnevskiy acknowledges that Skype was already available, but wanted something simpler that people could think of as a living room shared with friends.

As always, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Discord is indeed used by many more people than Vishnevskiy and his Final Fantasy 11 enthusiasts, but he remains a Final Fantasy enthusiast. Not only has he spent the past decade playing FF11, but he’s also racked up a lot of time in the critically acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy 14. He even has the heritage mark that proves he was around before A Realm Reborn swept away the troubled world. MMOs are a clean slate.

Such is Vishnevskiy’s dedication to Final Fantasy 14 that he took a week off to play the Dawntrail expansion. Since then he has even increased the number of jobs to 100 collaboration attack between FF14 and FF11 coming soonI dare say Vishnevskiy may have reason to take a little more time off. Final Fantasy and MMOs, it’s a good combination.

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