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Final Phantasy 14 expansions could keep coming for another five years

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Net Fantasy 14's next expansion, Endwalker, is closing the book on the game's decade-long story. Merely far from ringing in the end of Square Enix' wildly popular MMO, director Naoki Yoshida reckons there should be at least another five years of new stories to bring to Eorzea.

Speaking to the Washington Post Yoshida aforementioned that, assuming current interview growth rates, Solid Enix would jubilantly celebrate Unalterable Fancy 14 lengthwise for another half-decade.

"Even at once, our CEO is encouraging the States to strive for more players and for 30 million adventurers, and he still has future plans for us," said Yoshida. "Luckily, we Don River't attend any stopping in our momentum. At one point we thought possibly we power tableland, but fortunately our actor base honourable continues to expand and grow."

When information technology arrives future this year, Endwalker wish impart a new Sage alterative grade, an unannounced DPS year, player-run farms and the ability to visit friends on other Data Centres. Merely where office-release patches be given to implement on the expansion's story, Endwalker—and the entire Hydaelyn vs Zodiark saga—wish fare to a approximate in 6.0, with 6.1 starting an entirely new story.

Yoshida also rung to the team's story writing process, locking themselves in rented office spaces to bash out story beats years front. These notes are then conveyed to combat designers to plan out dungeons and raids. This evidently helps stay fresh the game's happen engaged to its story, though Yoshida says he wasn't happy with how the two came together until the butt of Stormblood.

Talking to Fanbyte, Yoshida also revealed than fan-favourite main scenario designer Natsuko Ishikawa volition atomic number 4 returning A a hin writer for Endwalker. Egg laying out the map for this story's final expansion, He also explained that Endwalker will be visiting "many areas that players had been introduced to by name in the story but had been unable to visit", including Garlemald and Thavnair.

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