Final Fantasy XIV’s North American Fan Festival is currently underway in Anaheim, California, and with it has come some huge announcements concerning the MMORPG’s future. Throughout the festival’s two-hour-long opening showcase, game director Naoki Yoshida (known as Yoshi-P by the community) announced that XIV’s next expansion, Evercold, is slated to release in January 2027, and brings with it two recent classes and a number of other major changes. But while Yoshida delivered a variety of exciting news on stage, the director had plenty to say concerning the game off stage, too.
Following the showcase, Yoshida met with members of the press to debate each Evercold (which nearly had a really different name, by the way in which) and Final Fantasy XIV as a complete. During this session, a reporter asked the director if he had ever considered making a single-player Final Fantasy XIV–one more according to nearly all of the series’ numbered titles. With zero hesitation, Yoshida replied, “Yes.”
“There are still a variety of people on the market who take a look at an internet Final Fantasy they usually say, ‘Well, an internet Final Fantasy is not an actual Final Fantasy,” Yoshida explained. He mentioned that, despite working on XIV for well over a decade now, even bringing just another person to the world of Final Fantasy XIV stays a crucial mission to him. Naturally, this includes those that feel that XIV “is not an actual Final Fantasy,” and would potentially jump in if it was a single-player experience.
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