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NEWS: Final Fantasy XIV MMORPG Unveils New 'Evercold' Expansion for January 2027

This being officially announced as the actual start of the new story arc sure puts a lot of DT in perspective

The biggest surprise was that they also announced an Evangelion crossover event!

And now it has a Switch 2 version coming because they want Japan's productivity to somehow hit negatives

But it being the theme for Alliance Raids (which means it is going to stay up in game pretty much to it's EoS and not being a limited event, like what was with Yokai Watch) is most whammy part about it, not gonna lie.

AiddonValentine wrote:

And now it has a Switch 2 version coming because they want Japan's productivity to somehow hit negatives

More like just replacing the already preexisted console audience because they are already dropping support for PS4 in a couple of years, considering after raising the price significantly for PS5 Japanese fanbase of Playstation got essentialy turned to none.

Speaking about that, I remember tons of people wanting to play FFXIV on the original Switch, though I don't know if that system could've handled it, though some of S-E's developers said they wanted it to be available on a Nintendo console, but looking at some of the reactions towards the Switch 2 version, it seems people aren't very happy with the fact that they need a separate account to play FFXIV on the Switch 2. I'm not that familiar with FFXIV as with other games in the series, but I know it's an MMORPG, so I get that people wanted to use their own account, but Nintendo never allows this type of cross platform use. Still, don't thing this FFXIV SW2 is meant for people who already played it, it's more for Nintendo players that never played it before, a new audience. Just like the recent FFVII Remake port, can't imagine anyone outside of some hardcore FF fan to double dip for this version.

The Switch 2 version will have its own monthly subscription fee, separate from the subscription fee for versions on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. There will be a discount for existing subscribers.

Why do I keep seeing people say 8.0 is the start of a "new arc?" The new arc started in 6.1 going to the Thirteenth. The events in the upcoming 7.5 are quite obviously directly tied to that story, which is hilarious given that people also called that "filler." There is no filler, pretty much everything is important, even when it isn't immediately obvious it is.

varmintx wrote:

Why do I keep seeing people say 8.0 is the start of a "new arc?" The new arc started in 6.1 going to the Thirteenth. The events in the upcoming 7.5 are quite obviously directly tied to that story, which is hilarious given that people also called that "filler." There is no filler, pretty much everything is important, even when it isn't immediately obvious it is.

They literally said in the keynote that we're now moving on to the new arc, the Godless Realms Saga. Take it up with the team if you don't like DT being called transitional filler lmao