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Final Fantasy 14
Final Fantasy 14 (otherwise known as Final Fantasy XIV) is a widely popular MMORPG created and published by Square Enix. Taking place in the land of Eorzea, players create their own character from a variety of races and adapt to a series of jobs that they can freely swap between. Largely considered a failure at launch, Final Fantasy 14 rebranded itself as Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn and has managed to become one of the best MMORPGs in the world.
Final Fantasy 14
- Franchise
- Final Fantasy
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 , PlayStation 5 , Microsoft Windows , macOS
- Released
- August 27, 2013
- Developer(s)
- Square Enix
- Publisher(s)
- Square Enix
- Genre(s)
- Fantasy , MMORPG
- Multiplayer
- Online Co-Op , Online Multiplayer
- ESRB
- T
- How Long To Beat
- 120HOURS
- Expansion Packs
- Heavensward (June 2015), Stormblood (June 2017), Shadowbringers (July 2019), Endwalker (December 2021)
Summary
Final Fantasy 14 (Final Fantasy XIV) is the fourteenth entry in the Final Fantasy franchise. It is an MMORPG that initially launched in 2010 before it was completely rebuilt from the ground up for a 2013 release as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. After the events of the 2010 iteration's conclusion, where the primal dragon Bahamut brings calamity to the land of Eorza, the player survives and is sent into the future by five years in a world that has begun to rebuild, but now thrust into the middle of a war from the Garlean Empire. As a consistently expanding world with an ever-scaling storyline, Final Fantasy XIV's narrative grows with each expansion, with the core experience still surrounding working with other players and NPCs as they level and customize their characters, engage in real-time events, and coordinate teams to enter massive dungeons to face raid bosses. The game is available to play with people of several nations and has a massive translatable vocabulary for players to be able to work with one another despite language barriers. The most recent expansion pack, Endwalker, was released in December of 2021 and follows the trend of each title releasing roughly every two years. Final Fantasy XIV is available as a free-to-play title up to level 60, where the game then transitions to a subscription model. The game is playable on Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5, as the PlayStation 3 version was shuttered in 2017.
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