Have you ever performed the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14? With an expanded free trial which you’ll play via the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Heavensward AND Stormblood expansions now as much as degree 70 at no cost with no restrictions on playtime? What’s that, you have not? You solely have Nintendo platforms and nothing else?
Properly, by no means concern, as a result of Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida is considering of you. In an interview with VGC at Gamescom this week, Yoshi-P answered some questions on the potential to convey FF14 to Nintendo Switch 2, and the information appears promising. “For me, it’s simply my goal to offer Final Fantasy 14 and 16 to as many gamers as attainable, and I hope that as many gamers as attainable will have the ability to get pleasure from these two video games,” he stated. “We’re placing in our greatest efforts to make sure that this occurs, so it’s positive to convey to your readership that I contemplate the prospects very positively, and we’re placing in our greatest efforts.”
Yoshi-P continued by saying that this is able to be a boon for current gamers too, as some gamers would possibly need to raid or do most important story content material on PC, however might loosen up on the couch with a Switch 2 and do gathering and crafting extra simply.
“In terms of gamers who haven’t performed Final Fantasy 14 earlier than, the youthful era of gamers, in the event that they began enjoying Final Fantasy 14 on Switch 2, after all being an MMO, it may be a brand new style for them, and I might be tremendous excited to get these new gamers into this style and having fun with the recreation as properly.
“So to this finish, we’ve been discussing with Nintendo, and the discussions have been optimistic, so I do hope that gamers will sit up for hopefully excellent news in the future.”
Final Fantasy 14 has lengthy been accessible on PlayStation and PC, however it just lately received Xbox and cellular releases as properly, making it one among the uncommon MMORPGs that is playable on most main platforms. Nintendo has been the most important holdout, virtually actually as a consequence of previous Nintendo programs not fairly having the technical functionality to run an MMORPG of that measurement. May the Nintendo Switch 2 lastly deal with Eorzea and all its denizens? Hopefully sure, and hopefully quickly.
Yesterday, we did get some Final Fantasy 14 information at Gamescom Opening Evening Dwell. We discovered {that a} Monster Hunter x Final Fantasy 14 collaboration is on the manner this fall, including FF14 content material to Monster Hunter Wilds and vice versa. Sadly, in the event you’re not already lively in FF14, you will not have the ability to simply soar in and revel in the Monster Hunter content material. You will have to have completed the newest enlargement, Dawntrail, which is a hundreds-of-hours-long endeavor in the event you do not pay to skip most of the story.
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