Square Enix has been honing a fine formula to Final Fantasy 14 content since bringing the MMO back from the brink with A Real Reborn's launch 16 years ago. While the approach to content has undoubtedly served its purpose, looking to the game's next era, I hope the familiar comforts of that routine are more greatly deviated from to keep things fresh.
If you've played Final Fantasy 14 for any great length of time, the rhythm of the roadmap is a familiar beat. Each grand expansion has a series of smaller patches between them to make your subscription cost feel worth the fee. The story following an expansion typically deals with the narrative aftermath before we're steered toward the tale of the next expansion, raid series are expanded upon with further encounters, and there's plenty more content introduced to appeal to the various corners of the MMO's vast fandom.
