Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 14 boss Naoki Yoshida has told The Gamer that he reckons “It’s probably about time,” for a new Final Fantasy Tactics game.
24.03.2024 - 14:51 / wccftech.com / Naoki Yoshida / Alessio Palumbo
Yesterday, Square Enix announced the final release date for Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, the latest expansion coming to its popular MMORPG. Dawntrail will go live on July 2 on all platforms. Funnily enough, Game Director Naoki Yoshida said it could have launched sooner, but they wanted to give players (and themselves) a bit more space to play Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, which launches on June 21.
Pre-orders for the expansion will begin in just two days, on Tuesday, March 26. All pre-order users will receive the following bonuses:
Pre-ordering Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail also allows users to take advantage of the early access period, which is tentatively scheduled to start on Friday, June 28 at 2 AM Pacific Time. Beware that to be granted early access and play the new content from the new expansion, users need to be playing Endwalker and have completed certain quests.
There are three editions to choose from. The Standard Edition is priced at $39.99; the Digital Collector's Edition, priced at $59.99, adds an Ark Mount, a Wind-Up Garnet Minion, and a Chocobo Brush equippable by pictomancers of any level. The physical Collector's Edition includes the digital items as well as the physical Dawntrail Special Art Box, Expertly Crafted Viper Figure, Adventurer’s Cloth Map, the Unending Journey, and Adventurer’s Pen Case, all for a price of $219.99. These physical items may also be purchased separately (without Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail) through the Collector's Box, priced at $155.00.
Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail is a brand new adventure on the faraway land of Tural. The main features include the addition of the Pictomancer and Viper DPS jobs, the Beastmaster limited job, a level cap increase from 90 to 100, new dungeons, new raid and alliance raid series, a new Ultimate raid, new variant dungeons, new Field Operations, new trials and Unreal trials, and more. Moreover, regardless of whether you purchase the expansion, the game is receiving a major graphical update and a new playable race (female Hrothgar).
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Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 14 boss Naoki Yoshida has told The Gamer that he reckons “It’s probably about time,” for a new Final Fantasy Tactics game.
A potential remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics has been in the rumour mill for several years at this point, and even though official word on whether or not it exists remains elusive, Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida – who’s also the director and producer of Final Fantasy 14 – has indicated that he, at the very least, is personally interested in seeing Final Fantasy Tactics be brought back.
It’s been a huge 12 months for Final Fantasy, and Square Enix is seemingly just getting warmed up. Following on from the reveal of Final Fantasy 16 add-on The Rising Tide earlier this weekend, the publisher has now confirmed MMO expansion Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail will deploy on 2nd July. This all follows the release of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth last month, of course.
Days after revealing the release date of the Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail expansion, Square Enix confirmed that fans can expect to hear more news about it during the next Letter from the Producer LIVE event on April 12 and 13. The upcoming Final Fantasy 14 broadcast is expected to touch upon Dawntrail news that was not covered at the March 23 PAX East panel.
Just as pre-orders for Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail went live in North America, the Square Enix Store experienced technical issues due to the mass user traffic. At the time of writing, Final Fantasy 14 posted on social media that the storefront's developers were aware of the issue and suggested some temporary workarounds as the investigations continued.
Final Fantasy 16 could make the jump to other platforms once it launches on PC, at least according to some of the game’s developers. The latest mainline Final Fantasy game launched exclusively on the PlayStation 5 last June, but Square Enix has promised a PC port at a later date. So far, there is no official word on when the PC version of Final Fantasy 16 will be released, but producer Naoki Yoshida recently told fans that it is in the end stages of development and a playable demo should be forthcoming.
could be on its way to Xbox consoles, based on a comment from producer Naoki Yoshida. While a PC port is already in development, this is the first hint of the 2023 action RPG coming to other consoles.
It’s been close to a year since Final Fantasy 16’s release, but fans of the action RPG continue to have plenty to look forward to. After its second (and likely final) expansion, The Rising Tide, releases next month, Square Enix’s attention will then turn fully to the PC port, which is currently in the final stages of optimization– and it seems that an Xbox Series X/S release will be next up after that.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is nearly a month old now, which means series fans are already beginning to turn their attention to the FF7 Remake trilogy’s final instalment– but Square Enix seemingly has plenty of other Final Fantasy throwbacks in the works as well, if reports are to be believed. One of them is allegedly a remake of Final Fantasy 9, and Naoki Yoshida – producer and director of Final Fantasy 14 – recently seemingly dropped some teases for the rumoured remake.
Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida has said that the reason for many references to Final Fantasy 9 in the upcoming expansion is a “secret”.
Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki Yoshida confirmed during a PAX East 2024 panel that its upcoming crossover quest with Final Fantasy 16 starts on April 2nd. It will be available until May 8th.
At a PAX East 2024 Panel, Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki Yoshida confirmed that the MMO’s next expansion, Dawntrail, would launch on July 2nd for Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5 and PC. Those who pre-order get early access and can start playing on June 28th at 2 AM PT.