History VideoGame / FinalFantasyXIV

A {{PS3}} version, originally scheduled for a March 2011 release and initially put on indefinite hold, will now enter beta testing in November and is scheduled to be released alongside the ''version 2.0'' client in February 2013. The initial delay in releases between systems led to the PC release being somewhat jokingly ([[EightPointEight or]] [[InternetBackdraft not]]) referred to as a beta for the PS3 release. An Xbox 360 version was also in development, but has been "paused" according to WordOfGod due to some issues with Xbox Live and Microsoft. A Playstation Vita version may be considered in the future, as well as smart phone applications that could be used to access the player's inventory, for example.

* AlienSky: Hydaelyn has an unusually bright starfield and [[FinalFantasyIV two]][[FinalFantasyIX moons]], although the second is ''very'' small and difficult to see at certain times of night and moonphases. A less common instance of a non-in-your-face AlienSky.

* AlienSky: Hydaelyn has an unusually bright starfield and [[((FFIV))two]][[{{FFIX}}moons]], although the second is ''very'' small and difficult to see at certain times of night and moonphases. A less common instance of a non-in-your-face AlienSky.

* AlienSky: Hydaelyn has an unusually bright starfield and [[((FF4))two]][[{{FF9}} moons]], although the second is ''very'' small and difficult to see at certain times of night and moonphases. A less common instance of a non-in-your-face AlienSky.

* AlienSky: Hydaelyn has an unusually bright starfield and two moons, although the second is ''very'' small and difficult to see at certain times of night and moonphases. A less common instance of a non-in-your-face AlienSky.

''Final Fantasy XIV'' is the fourteenth game in the [[TheSimpsons groin-grabbingly]] [[RunningGag popular]] ''FinalFantasy'' series. It is an {{MMORPG}}, similar to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'', and timed exclusively to the PC. There is both a standard and a [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition Collector's Edition]], whose buyers were able to start the game 8 days early, get one month of free service, [[{{Feelies}} two exclusive items, a themed journal, and some other bells and whistles]]. The {{PS3}} version, originally scheduled for a March 2011, has been indefinitely delayed until such time as the game has 'reached the level of enjoyability and service befitting the ''Final Fantasy'' name'. The delay in releases between systems has led to the PC release being somewhat jokingly ([[EightPointEight or]] [[InternetBackdraft not]]) referred to as a beta for the PS3 release. A 360 version was also in development, but has been "paused" according to WordOfGod due to some issues with Xbox Live and Microsoft. A Playstation Vita version may be considered in the future, as well as smart phone applications that could be used to access the player's inventory, for example.

SquareEnix recently [[http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=ae8d667b53355d8ea364fafa44d5253e4362e17f apologized for the state of the game]], and [[YouHaveFailedMe replaced]] several key members of the development team. The new development team has greatly overhauled the game, addressing many of its original flaws, although the title isn't quite ready for primetime just yet. Said "primetime" will be coming in the form of ''version 2.0'', which will reportedly [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore bring about sweeping changes to the way the game works, the game engine, and the the land of Eorzea itself]]--comparisons to [[WorldOfWarcraft Cataclysm]] have been made even by the devs themselves.

* [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Journey to the Center of the Mind]]: The Echo is an ability granted to those few who witnessed a strange, meteor storm-like event in the sky, which occurred at the beginning of the game's main storyline. Those possessed of the Echo have the ability to touch people's souls, and experience their memories as if they had been present at the time. This is, of course, not time travel, but the actions of a person with the gift inside an echo'd memory will permanently alter the memories of the person the Echo is used on.

This game continues a tradition from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' of having a character level separate from interchangeable job ranks. Similarly to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' you can switch between any job you want on the same character.

SquareEnix recently [[http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=ae8d667b53355d8ea364fafa44d5253e4362e17f apologized for the state of the game]], and [[YouHaveFailedMe replaced]] several key members of the development team. The new development team has greatly overhauled the game, addressing many of its original flaws, although the title isn't quite ready for primetime just yet. Said "primetime" will be coming in the form of ''version 2.0'', which is said to bring about sweeping changes to both the land of Eorzea and the game engine in general.

* CutAndPasteEnvironments: While the re-using of environmental assets is fairly common among MMORPG's, Final Fantasy XIV's huge, high-definition, constantly multiple elevation environments demanded this be taken a little further, supposedly in order to accommodate certain limitations of the PS3 beside the original intention to have massive, seamless zones. Primary textures and landscape models are repeated, with additional variation achieved through creatively differing rotations and angles and through new combinations and adjustments, as well as through the usual re-texturing, and differing selections of flora and objects.
** With the rebuild for version 2.0, the opposite strategy has been announced - in order to accommodate much more varied environments beside the supposed limitations of the PS3, the massive, seamless environments will be divided - in most cases into three or four unique parts.
** It's also worth noting that the environments are not as lacking in landmarks and distinction as many like to point out, and different areas of single zones can be very distinct from one another. For instance, Western Thanalan has a large number of deep, somewhat swampy basins seen nowhere else, and similarly, the North-eastern Black Shroud features massive, seemingly bottomless chasms with spits of rock held up by the enormous trees and their roots.

** It's also worth noting that the environments are not as lacking in landmarks and distinction as many like to point out, and different areas of single zones can be very distinct from one another. For instance, Western Thanalan has a large number of deep, somewhat swampy basins soon nowhere else, and similarly, the North-eastern Black Shroud features massive, seemingly bottomless chasms with spits of rock held up by the enormous trees and their roots.

* CutAndPasteEnvironments: While the re-using of environmental elements is fairly common among MMORPG's, Final Fantasy XIV's huge, high-definition, constantly multiple elevation environments demanded this be taken a little further, supposedly in order to accommodate certain limitations of the PS3 beside the original intention to have massive, seamless environments. The hanging cliffs, elevated pathways over deep gorges and valleys, and the cave networks that span huge portions of the open environments are repeated, with additional variation achieved through creatively differing rotations and angles and through new combinations and adjustments. As well as through the usual re-texturing, and differing selections of flora and objects.

* [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Journey to the Center of the Mind]]: The Echo is an ability granted to those few who witnessed a strange, meteor storm-like event in the sky, which occurred at the beginning of the game's main storyline. Those possessed of the Echo have the ability to touch people's souls, and experience their memories as if they had been present at the time. This is, of course, not time travel, but the actions of a person with the gift inside an echo'd memory will permanently change alter the memories of the person the Echo is used on.

* FantasticRacism: Not as rife as in other fantasy settings that deploy this trope - Eorzea seems to be a very tolerant place indeed, being the racial and cultural melting pot that it is. This is somewhat less so for other places in Hydaelyn, however. The Garlean Empire, for instance, sees all races who have anything to do with the Primals as being in need of purging. This generally just means the Beast Tribes. However, as those gifted with the Echo are in some way connected with the Primals, the Empire seemingly lumps all Walkers of the Path (and thus, the player) in with the Beast Tribes on the purge schedule.

* FantasticRacism: Not as common as in many games - Eorzea seems to be a very tolerant place indeed, being the racial and cultural melting pot that it is. This is somewhat less so for other places in Hydaelyn, however. The Garlean Empire, for instance, sees all races who have anything to do with the Primals as being in need of purging. This generally just means the Beast Tribes. However, as those gifted with the Echo are in some way connected with the Primals, the Empire seemingly lumps all Walkers of the Path (and thus, the player) in with the Beast Tribes on the purge schedule.

** The game is also a little sneaky about its use. Prior to the Echo being explained when the player character is invited to join the Path of the Twelve, the Echo receives very little suggestion. As its use is preceded only by a soft 'whoosh' noise and a very subtle screen effect, often with no change in location whatsoever, it is only in retrospect that many players will realise certain events early in the story were actually their experiencing NPCs' memories.

* AlienSky: Hydaelyn has an unusually bright starfield and two moons, although the second can be difficult to see at certain times of night and moonphases. A less common instance of a non-in-your-face AlienSky.

* CutAndPasteEnvironments: While the re-using of environmental elements is fairly common among MMORPG's, Final Fantasy XIV's huge, high-definition, constantly multiple elevation environments demanded this be taken a little further, supposedly in order to accommodate the certain limitations of the PS3 beside the original intention to have massive, seamless environments. The hanging cliffs, elevated pathways over deep gorges and valleys, and the cave networks that span huge portions of the open environments are repeated, with additional variation achieved through creatively differing rotations and angles and through new combinations and adjustments. As well as through the usual re-texturing, and differing selections of flora and objects.

* CutAndPasteEnvironments: While the re-using of environmental elements is fairly common among MMORPG's, Final Fantasy XIV's huge, high-definition, constantly multiple elevation environments demanded this be taken a little further. The hanging cliffs, elevated pathways over deep gorges and valleys, and the cave networks that span huge portions of the open environments are repeated, with additional variation achieved through creatively differing rotations and angles and through new combinations and adjustments. As well as through the usual re-texturing, and differing selections of flora and objects.
** As of Patch 1.20, field zones have been heavily modified to rectify this. The Black Shroud, for example, is no longer a series of small, twisty caves and circular fields.

* SolidGold Poop: At the end of the Halloween event, it was revealed that the cookies given by the Imps were actually Chocobo dung. [[GoMadFromTheRevelation the reporter that discovered it wasn't very happy]].

''Final Fantasy XIV'' is the fourteenth game in the [[TheSimpsons groin-grabbingly]] [[RunningGag popular]] ''FinalFantasy'' series. It is an {{MMORPG}}, similar to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'', and timed exclusively to the PC. There is both a standard and a [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition Collector's Edition]], whose buyers were able to start the game 8 days early, get one month of free service, [[{{Feelies}} two exclusive items, a themed journal, and some other bells and whistles]]. The {{PS3}} version, originally scheduled for a March 2011, has been indefinitely delayed until such time as the game has 'reached the level of enjoyability and service befitting the ''Final Fantasy'' name'. The delay in releases between systems has led to the PC release being somewhat jokingly ([[EightPointEight or]] [[InternetBackdraft not]]) referred to as a beta for the PS3 release. A 360 version was also in development, but has been "paused" according to WordOfGod due to some issues with Xbox Live and Microsoft. A Playstation Vita version may be considered in the future, as well as smart phone applications that could be usd to access the player's inventory, for example.

** BadassAdorable: The weapons dropped by Good King Moggle Mog XII have names such as "Murderous Mogfists" or "Malevolent Mogwand", and are some of the best in the game. They also make a [[VerbalTic "kupo"]] sound whenever drawn.

''Final Fantasy XIV'' is the fourteenth game in the [[TheSimpsons groin-grabbingly]] [[RunningGag popular]] ''FinalFantasy'' series. It is an {{MMORPG}}, similar to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'', and timed exclusively to the PC. There is both a standard and a [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition Collector's Edition]], whose buyers were able to start the game 8 days early, get one month of free service, [[{{Feelies}} two exclusive items, a themed journal, and some other bells and whistles]]. The {{PS3}} version, originally scheduled for a March 2011, has been indefinitely delayed until such time as the game has 'reached the level of enjoyability and service befitting the ''Final Fantasy'' name'. The delay in releases between systems has led to the PC release being somewhat jokingly ([[EightPointEight or]] [[InternetBackdraft not]]) referred to as a beta for the PS3 release. A 360 version was also in development, but has been "paused" according to WordOfGod due to some issues with Xbox Live and Microsoft.

This game continues a tradition from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' of having a character level separate from interchangeable job ranks. This means that, unlike ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' or pretty much any other MMORPG, you can switch between any job you want on the same character, but still keep that character's level no matter what rank your job is. In turn, each job or "Discipline" Rank has a cap on any given stat. The downside is that that means you only have one stat set that [[strike:can only be reset from the last 10%]] take several hours to reset between all the Disciplines.

* BattleThemeMusic: Where to even begin. There are six regular battle themes, one for each major area and one for dungeons. Then, there are at least three different boss battle themes, four different guildleve themes and the behest theme, not to mention the new instanced dungeon theme, making a grand total of 15 battle themes. And this is not even counting "Primal Judgment", which screams "Primal Battle Theme", and two songs found on the alpha rip that are likely a regular battle theme for an area not yet in-game and the Final Boss theme.

* ClassAndLevelSystem: Of the VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics "one character can play whatever class they want at any time" variety, with aspects of a PointBuild system. This will change to one where each of the classes is a separate level and the global "physical level" is abolished in a future patch.

* FreeToPlay: After giving away free month after free month, Square decided to [[YouHaveFailedMe replace the development team leaders]], and do away with the monthly charges until they could 'provide a plan that outlines a level of enjoyment that will satisfy both us and our customers'. In [[http://www.eorzeapedia.com/2010/12/31/4gamer-interview-with-naoki-yoshida-part-1 an interview]], the new director Naoki Yoshida also said 'we’ll have reached that point once we've developed a system where we listen to the voices of the players and then communicate back what we are going to do, how we are going to do it, and a deadline for when it will be done.' This is evidently now the case given the publication of a recent [[http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/teaser/ development roadmap]] for a massive rebuild including a complete engine and server architecture replacement, and the announcement of resumption of a subscription fees.

* MythologyGag: Other than the obvious fact that the game's races are based on ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'''s, there are also characters looking dangerously similar to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Judges.]]

* Solid Gold Poop: The cookies from the Halloween Event? Chocobo dung.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: If the various dialogues and hints are anything to go by, many of the [[spoiler:Garlean Empire's]] actions were done in order to ''prevent'' the end of the world and not out of malicious intent.

[[caption-width-right:350:Your social life just got one-shotted by [[FinalFantasyXI Absolute Virtue.]]]]

''Final Fantasy XIV'' is the fourteenth game in the [[TheSimpsons groin-grabbingly]] [[RunningGag popular]] ''FinalFantasy'' series. It is an {{MMORPG}}, similar to ''FinalFantasyXI'', and timed exclusively to the PC. There is both a standard and a [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition Collector's Edition]], whose buyers were able to start the game 8 days early, get one month of free service, [[{{Feelies}} two exclusive items, a themed journal, and some other bells and whistles]]. The {{PS3}} version, originally scheduled for a March 2011, has been indefinitely delayed until such time as the game has 'reached the level of enjoyability and service befitting the ''Final Fantasy'' name'. The delay in releases between systems has led to the PC release being somewhat jokingly ([[EightPointEight or]] [[InternetBackdraft not]]) referred to as a beta for the PS3 release. A 360 version was also in development, but has been "paused" according to WordOfGod due to some issues with Xbox Live and Microsoft.

The game is set in a region called Eorzea, on the planet Hydaelyn. Eorzea is a bit more "high-tech" than Vana'diel was, with airships akin to ''FinalFantasyXII'', a wider arrays of guns, and with an actual system of roads. Eorzea itself is a sort of frontier, being implicitly a great deal less developed and 'tamed' than surrounding Aldenard, although the various cities have existed for at least centuries. Before the start of the game, the steam-punk Garlean Empire had set to conquer the city-states of Limsa Lominsa, Ul'dah, Gridania, Ishgard, and Ala Mhigo. Ala Mhigo was razed by them, but soon after the Garleans retreated, forcing the remaining city-states to militarize and band together in an uneasy peace.

This game continues a tradition from ''FinalFantasyV'' and ''FinalFantasyTactics'' of having a character level separate from interchangeable job ranks. This means that, unlike ''FinalFantasyXI'' or pretty much any other MMORPG, you can switch between any job you want on the same character, but still keep that character's level no matter what rank your job is. In turn, each job or "Discipline" Rank has a cap on any given stat. The downside is that that means you only have one stat set that [[strike:can only be reset from the last 10%]] take several hours to reset between all the Disciplines.

* CatGirl: The Miqo'te race. Think Mithra from FinalFantasyXI, minus the characteristic noses (though they can be added during character creation), with more slender ears and tail variation, and a different culture.

* ClassAndLevelSystem: Of the FinalFantasyTactics "one character can play whatever class they want at any time" variety, with aspects of a PointBuild system. This will change to one where each of the classes is a separate level and the global "physical level" is abolished in a future patch.

** '''Hyur''', the closest to normal human beings, and a direct analogue to the [[FinalFantasyXI Hume]] [[FinalFantasyXII race]]. They are split between:

* LyingCreator: Hiromichi Tanaka, reigning champion from his time as producer of FinalFantasyXI, returns to (among other things) cause a large part of the controversy surrounding the AntiPoopSocking system by lying about it being in the game after it was already discovered and hours before it was announced. There's also the case of Guildleves being the main system of gathering ExperiencePoints in the game, but as that comment was made much earlier in development it may have just been an honest change in development priorities.

* MythologyGag: Other than the obvious fact that the game's races are based on ''FinalFantasyXI'''s, there are also characters looking dangerously similar to [[FinalFantasyXII Judges.]]
** Servers are named after towns and kingdoms from previous FF games, such as [[FinalFantasyVI Figaro]], [[FinalFantasyVII Wutai]] or [[FinalFantasyX Besaid]]. In previous beta phases, they were named after famous villains and bosses in the series.

* PowerUpFood: Returning from FinalFantasyXI.

** The Highlander Hyur also have only male adventurers.