We like that idea too, but it isn’t as straight forward when developing a title. If you are going to make an online game all of your systems need to be desinged to live in an online environment. So we essentially would be making the game 2 times (not that drastic…but not a trivial amount of work). I would imagine that those features would come after an initial release.
I have a similar feeling. In my mind we would want to make the follow up title to have all the things people liked about the first game so they wouldn’t feel the need to go back and play the first game because something was “missing”.
From my personal experience I will use Diablo 2 as an example. That game, in my opinion, had everything D1 had…but more and better. I never felt that I had to back and play D1.
I think you will see something like that in the near term. It will not be DQ1 focused (not completely at any rate) but you will get more info from us and what are plans are.