Final Fantasy 14 is a game that's tumbling through the air, and it really needs to stick the next landing. With its main competitor World of Warcraft being decent again, it can't coast on an updraft of 'Shadowlands refugees' anymore.
Endwalker's main story quest was a triumph, yet as far as the 'MMORPG' part of the experience goes, its post-launch vibes have been tepid. As our features producer Mollie rightly pointed out in December last year, "It's hard to feel like there hasn't been an ever-growing exhaustion with the formula Square Enix has stuck so stalwartly to for the last several years."
