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'FFXIV' Director Reveals Two Vital Pieces of Lore You Need to Know Before Dawntrail

During the recent Dawntrail media tour, FFXIV director Naoki Yoshida gave a hint at the new expansion's story, and what lore fans should be familiar with.

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FF14 director Yoshi-P says 'possibly 98%' of the team are inspired by Elden Ring, but assures players Dawntrail won't be as brutally hard

The environmental design and atmosphere are where you'll probably see the most inspiration, he says.

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After a Decade, Dawntrail Feels Like the Big Change 'Final Fantasy XIV' Needs

Dawntrail feels like a fresh start for FFXIV, at least on a mechanical level, bringing inventive new jobs, meaningful changes, and a gorgeous new area.

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'Final Fantasy 14' Could See a Wild Transformation If It Ever Shuts Down, Director Says

Final Fantasy XIV Director has a hard time picturing an offline version of the MMO, but has a potential idea while Dawntrial ushers the game into a new era.

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'Players don't need to worry about that': Final Fantasy 14 director says the team is well-armed for Dawntrail's launch rush, no repeat of the Endwalker queue fiasco or day-long DDoS attacks

More servers and better ways of dealing with DDoS attacks have left Naoki Yoshida feeling confident.

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Final Fantasy 14 director doesn't have any plans to change 'the structure' of Dawntrail's patches, but its Bozja-like field exploration zone 'will be larger in scale than the content we've had in the past'

"There is a benefit for the players, but also there's a benefit for us as the developers."

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Final Fantasy 14 superfan and series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is running riot with the goofy FF6 outfit he made Yoshi-P add to the MMO

And he's already got an entourage

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Final Fantasy 14 is getting one more Live Letter before Dawntrail to focus on patch 7.0 itself

Patch 7.0 is seemingly called 'Golden Legacy'

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Shin Megami Tensei V summons PLAY’s RPG Special issue

Plus: Visions Of Mana’s long-awaited return, how to design an FF14 job class, reporting from EVO Japan, and more!

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Final Fantasy 14 is helping us poor souls who spend hours creating a character only to absolutely hate it by giving its transformation potion a 60-minute grace period

Fantasias will allow players an hour of playtime to go back and make any additional changes in the character creator.

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'FFXIV: Dawntrail' Is Bringing Massive Changes to Jobs

'Final Fantasy XIV's Dawntrail' expansion is bringing sweeping changes to nearly every job, and it's clear Square Enix wants it to be a fresh reset for the MMO.

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Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P says the ongoing DDoS problems are the 'largest scale' attacks seen since the game's original 2010 launch

Sporadic attacks have been hitting servers worldwide since early May.

PC Gamer

Here's why Final Fantasy 14's upgraded characters looked so bad in its Benchmark test, and how Square Enix is improving them for 7.0's launch

It's all down to lighting issues

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Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail expansion is in the final stage of development, so rest assured it won’t suffer an Endwalker-style delay

Square Enix is currently in the final checking stage

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FF14 and FF16 senior translator Koji Fox says 'you can kinda tell' game director Naoki Yoshida is 'like: I'm done with dark fantasy, I want to do something light again'

Tonal recall.

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Final Fantasy 14's blacklisting functionality is getting an overdue overhaul: 'it is time we implement features to protect everyone's experience'

It's a step in the right direction for dealing with in-game harassment.

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How action led the way in Final Fantasy 16's bid to reinvent the long-running RPG series

Interview | Edge magazine explores the making of FF16 with the devs who brought it to life

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Final Fantasy 14 and 16 big cheese Yoshi-P says 'It's probably about time' they do a new Final Fantasy Tactics game

What do you mean? It's only been 17 years.

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As Final Fantasy 14's visual overhaul nears, the Elder Scrolls MMO developers acknowledge improved technology is really important

"We do run on a somewhat aging engine"

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A demo for Final Fantasy 16 is reportedly coming to PC soon, as producer Yoshi-P says work on the port is 'going smoother than we thought it would'

Still no confirmation of a release date, however.

TechRadar

Final Fantasy 16 on high-end PCs will have better performance than PS5, but the producer encourages users to try the demo first

Final Fantasy 16's producer Naoki Yoshida has offered some insight into the game's PC performance benchmark.

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10 years ago, Final Fantasy 14's hard-fought revival was nearly derailed by an infamous boss who Yoshi-P says made 300,000 defeated players drop the MMO

No one liked Titan's Extreme brawl

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Square Enix's Yoshi-P hints that 'Final Fantasy XVI' could come to Xbox after the Windows PC version is done

In a recent interview at Pax East 2024 with Noisy Pixel, Yoshi-P, and Takeo Kujiraoka look back on Final Fantasy XVI and discuss plans of porting the game to other platforms beyond the PlayStation 5 and PC.

PC Gamer

'I'll give you one week!' FF14's director Yoshi-P wanted to start Dawntrail's early access period earlier, but then that pesky Elden Ring DLC announcement happened

Yeah, that'd do it.

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Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail will release in late June to avoid clashing with Elden Ring's DLC

Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail expansion is coming the week after Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.

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