Final Fantasy XIV’s 24 cardinal registered players weave a communicative of hard-fought occurrence considering the archetypal game’s shaky merchandise earlier the reupholstered A Realm Reborn launch. Since then, Eorzea has grown with aggregate expansions: Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers, each introducing caller areas to explore, much quality jobs, and breathtaking communicative beats to bolster the already compelling cardinal narrative. Endwalker is the adjacent large-scale addition. The pandemic affected the 4th expansion’s production, and present shaper and manager Naoki Yoshida has announced a abbreviated two-week hold alongside a caller Endwalker motorboat trailer (seen below).
In a Square Enix property release, Yoshida apologized profusely for the last-minute hold (Endwalker was initially slated to merchandise connected November 23), stating that the squad needs a spot much clip to optimize the MMO’s stability. An excerpt from his connection tin beryllium work below:
“We volition of people present a caller escapade successful FFXIV to travel connected from Endwalker but, with the assorted struggles we experienced from the nonaccomplishment of the archetypal FFXIV starring up to wherever we are now, I conscionable couldn’t incorporate my tendency to cleanable Endwalker to the champion of my ability. As a result, the clip we spent connected prime betterment exceeded our expectations and we ended up utilizing our clip allotted for debugging. On the different hand, arsenic stableness is important for an online game, I person taken the determination to postpone the merchandise of the enlargement battalion for 2 weeks successful bid to resecure the clip for debugging that would originate arsenic we wrapper up development."
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is bringing a bevy of new features, including but not constricted to caller relation quests for tanks, healers, melee DPS, carnal ranged DPS, magical ranged DPS, Reaper, and Sage classes, caller raids with Normal and Savage trouble settings acceptable for aboriginal patches, different treasure hunt dungeon and lodging country with bigger purchasable plots, 5v5 PVP with ranked seasons, and small-scale prime of beingness tweaks including UI changes.
Our nonmigratory MMO-expert Dan Tack played Endwalker and loved his clip with it, stating, “Obviously, a mates of hours with an MMORPG is simply a driblet successful the bucket. But everything I saw successful Endwalker speaks to the greater crippled and its continued way of progression, wherever they’ve upped the prime of the rubric with each expansion. With Endwalker representing the expansive finale of the existent communicative arc, I expect a lot. And everything I’ve seen truthful acold thinks that we’ll get it.”
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker volition present merchandise connected December 7, with aboriginal entree opening connected December 3.