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Alright, so here’s the scoop. Final Fantasy 14 is going through some funky changes. Notably, Naoki Yoshida—he’s the big cheese producer and director guy—decided to roll out a couple of changes earlier than expected. For some reason, maybe someone lost a bet or something, you can dive into this Forked Tower raid as a pre-made 48-player alliance starting July 3. Talk about cramming folks in! Also, they decided to mess around with the weather. Yup, apparently, those auroral mirages that need to pop up for you to enter the Tower are showing up more often. Someone must have complained about the lack of magical skies.
In this 87th installment of the ‘Producer LIVE’ thing—kind of sounds like a rock concert, doesn’t it?—Yoshida took some time to address what the players have been grumbling about the Occult Crescent field ops and this other feature called Cosmic Exploration. Supposedly, these gripes will get some love in Patch 7.3, which will roll out come early August. They say some player suggestions will bleed into future stuff in Dawntrail’s updates, stretching all the way to 2025, maybe even 2026. Planning ahead much, huh?
But hold onto your chocobos, because Yoshida posted on Lodestone saying hey, you can form an alliance up to 48 players to enter the Occult Crescent starting July 3. Heads up though, servers are going to take a nap for four hours at 2 AM Eastern. Yay, maintenance! But this makes things a bit smoother for those looking for goodies like the Demon Haul mount.
Final Fantasy 14 promised some more tweaks in 7.3, too. One of them involves exclusive instance access for these pre-formed alliances. Dawntrail’s final patch is mostly wrapped up, they assure us—it’s just these little things getting tweaked. Apparently, they want to make some user interface changes, ensuring no overlap with crucial cosmic moments. No idea why, but it seems like important stuff to them.
Even with some fans rolling their eyes at the game’s current state, it’s not every day we see speedy changes like this. Guess it’s a wait-and-see if this points to a new role for Square Enix. Anyway—no, wait—who knows where this ride ends?
