Highlights
- The Ultimate Fantasy 14 director and the event workforce plan to help the sport for an additional ten years, making certain a long-lasting future for the MMO.
- The success of the sport has resulted in 4 expansions, with the upcoming Dawntrail growth set to supply a contemporary begin and a excessive stage of catharsis.
- Yoshida hopes to launch at the least three extra expansions earlier than he turns 60, and the size and dimension of future content material will probably be adjusted based mostly on participant suggestions.
The director and producer behind the long-running MMORPG Ultimate Fantasy 14 just lately revealed that he plans to help the sport for an additional ten years. The MMO has been going for fairly some time now, with 2023 marking Ultimate Fantasy 14‘s 10-year anniversary. Ever since its producer and director, Naoki Yoshida, stepped into the position, the sport has develop into one of the profitable initiatives in Sq. Enix’s catalog and continues to be receiving help at this time.
Ultimate Fantasy 14‘s success has resulted in 4 expansions that have been launched all through the last decade of its exercise, with Endwalker having wrapped up the storyline that began all the way in which again in 2013. The sport will probably be having a brand-new begin with the Dawntrail growth, which is at the moment slated for Summer season 2024. With the sport already occurring for a decade, there are some followers who surprise how a lot life the sport might have. Director Naoki Yoshida commented on the sport’s future and the way lengthy he and the workforce want to proceed engaged on the MMO.
In an interview with Famitsu, Yoshida appeared again on the success and legacy of Ultimate Fantasy 14 previously ten years. The director then commented that he and the event workforce have plans to proceed engaged on the sport and help it for an additional ten years. He notes that the primary concern is how the workforce ought to strive differentiating themselves from their previous work, however expresses pleasure on how they’re coming into a brand new artistic stage.
He talked about how the Endwalker growth closed the e book on Ultimate Fantasy 14‘s overarching narratives, which he acknowledges is a bit unconventional since MMOs aren’t presupposed to have a standard ending. Nevertheless, he talked about the conclusion of Endwalker allowed them to pave the way in which for Dawntrail, which he wished to ship a excessive stage of catharsis that was much like the earlier growth. He nonetheless notes after how climactic Endwalker ended up being, Dawntrail would possibly really feel a bit of slower since it is a new storyline being began.
Yoshida had beforehand acknowledged what number of expansions are in thoughts for Ultimate Fantasy 14 after Dawntrail, the place he hoped to launch at the least three extra earlier than he turns 60 years outdated. The director will probably be 51 when Dawntrail releases in 2024, with two extra already being deliberate at the moment. The size and dimension of the story and expansions following Dawntrail will probably be adjusted based mostly on the viewers’s response. Yoshida wrapped up the interview by thanking the various Ultimate Fantasy 14 gamers and asking them to look ahead to the upcoming growth.
Ultimate Fantasy 14 is obtainable now for PC, PS4, and PS5 with an Xbox Collection X/S model coming in Spring 2024.
Supply: Famitsu (through Siliconera)
