The Final Fantasy XIV fansite, FFXIVCore.com reports that the producer of Final Fantasy XIV and the man behind the hit Secret of Mana, will be attending Gamescom 2009 next week!  Having Hiromichi Tanaka attending makes us wonder what Square Enix is planning on showing us.

Head over to FFXIVCore.com to read the full article.  They're also running a contest with many nice prizes.

What do we know about FFXIV, well here's a few things:

• It's made by Square Enix.
• FFXIV will not be a level/experience based game!! I believe the last major MMO to do this was Star Wars Galaxies, and even they completely rehauled their MMO to get rid of it, which needless to say disappointed many people. SWG was imo, before its time, and a skill-based system now is a refreshing change from all the WoW-clone MMOs.
• For those who are not familiar to a skill-based system, basically the more you use of a weapon/skill, the better you become at it. So technically there still is a "grind" but you have the freedom to make your character however you want it. In FFXIV this is determined by the weapon you have equipped. For example, if you using a mage weapon, the better your nuking skills become, or if you have a blacksmith hammer to craft stuff, the better your crafting becomes. We don't know how exactly this system works, but that's the jist of it.
• All of the music is being composed by Nobuo Uematsu!