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Anna Koselke

Final Fantasy 14's 8.0 update isn't going to be another "rebirth" for the MMO, Yoshi-P says, as it isn't on the scale of A Realm Reborn

Final Fantasy 14 screenshot showing a male Viera - a rabbit-like race with lengthy ears - looking up, his eyes yellow and skin a deep blue.

No, Final Fantasy 14 8.0 – the MMO's hotly anticipated next expansion – won't be quite as game-changing as A Realm Reborn was back in 2013.

At least, that's why director Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida says in a new interview with Famitsu (as machine-translated via DeepL and Google). According to the legendary lead, calling the upcoming expansion a "rebirth" of Final Fantasy 14 – or implying that the game will be "reborn" come its arrival – isn't exactly accurate, because Square Enix isn't rebuilding things from the ground up as it did for A Realm Reborn.

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