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EXPLAINED: Dawntrail - The Real Truth

PlayStation goes all-digital, lessons learned for Square Enix, and what happens when fantasy projects collide with the reality of Xbox's restructure

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How Final Fantasy 14's best Dawntrail raids are serving as "a firm guideline for our future battle content development" as the MMO heads to Evercold

Interview | "We have much to learn from missteps and areas where we reflect and improve," assistant director Tsuyoshi Yokozawa says, "but we take all of that forward as motivation"

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Final Fantasy 14 devs looked to the MMO's best expansion to design the Arcadion series after feeling like "ensuring player comfort and stress reduction" limited creativity

Heavensward, beloved by fans and Square Enix alike

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7,000 hours in, Final Fantasy 14 tired me out with Dawntrail – but Evercold's healer reworks, duo duties, and new meta might win me back

Opinion | Yoshi-P says the MMO is "evolving," and all I can say is "FINALLY"

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Final Fantasy 14's promised 'public fields' redesign could fix complaints I've had about the MMO for years—here's what I'm hoping for

Please, please, please.

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Final Fantasy 14 Evercold is the MMO's next big expansion, and it's coming early next year

Square Enix finally lifts the veil on 8.0

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Final Fantasy 14's 8.0 update will shape the future of the MMO, but I hope Square Enix remembers the one quest that got me excited for Dawntrail

Opinion | Fewer things would excite me more about the next chapter of the venerable MMO than one that feels different than its past

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Seagate FireCuda X Vault review

Big on size, big on capacity, not that big on price.

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Final Fantasy 14 "can't afford another failed expansion," fans say, as unofficial census reports significant player drop ahead of the MMO's big 8.0 reveal

Will Fan Fest 2026 turn things around after Dawntrail?

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Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.5 site teases a potential return to the void for its next expansion

We're not done with the thirteenth just yet.

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By the grace of the Twelve, Final Fantasy 14 might just be healing as unofficial census shows increase of 110,000 players in 3 months – with returners and sprouts alike

Time to hit Limsa Lominsa

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Away from 2025's biggest and best, here's what we actually played most this year

Away from the big ones of 2025, here’s what we’ve actually been playing this year, from older multiplayer games to timeless classics.

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They survived the MMO massacre of 2025, but 2026 is going to be a tense year for WoW and FF14: And for completely different reasons

It's all on the (on)line.

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Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P says it's "time to go back to school" as the MMO builds to its next expansion and turns away from the "summer vacation" that was its mixed Dawntrail expansion

Time to get the last of your homework done

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Final Fantasy 14 actor speaks out after backlash for her Dawntrail role, says MMO director Yoshi-P apologized on behalf of Square Enix: "He was very kind"

Sena Bryer played DLC protagonist Wuk Lamat

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FF14 director Naoki Yoshida has big plans for the MMO after Dawntrail's roughspots—hinting at A Realm Reborn-style overhaul

If you throw another moon at me, I'm gonna lose it.

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Final Fantasy 14 lead Yoshi-P reportedly teases another "rebirth" for the MMO as Dawntrail continues to suffer "Mostly Negative" Steam reviews over 1 year on

A Realm Reborn 2.0, anyone?

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Final Fantasy 14 is getting a "big update" to bring out the "uniqueness of each job" in battle content, Yoshi-P says, before confusingly adding "that nothing is going to change" for those who like things the way they are

As a player aptly puts it – "Now, what the f**k does that mean?"

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Final Fantasy 14 devs have "quite a big plan for jobs moving forward," Yoshi-P teases, cooking up "major changes" for the MMO to "make jobs more interesting for players to use"

It's "quite difficult" for him to explain how right now, though

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I spoke with Final Fantasy 14’s Naoki Yoshida about Monster Hunter, Beastmaster, and the collaborations he’d love to do next – ‘I’m a maniac about One Piece’

We spoke with Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida at Gamescom 2025 about the game and its upcoming content.

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As Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest dates leave fans worried the MMO's next expansion might not release until March 2027 at the earliest, Yoshi-P drops an ominous tease: "Rest assured you won't have to wait long"

Dawntrail launched July 2, 2024

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Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail left the MMO's community fatigued and fed up, so Yoshi-P says devs are "planning to upgrade" new content that "can be enjoyed by a wide variety of different players"

Square Enix hopes to "provide more interesting experiences"

PC Gamer

Final Fantasy 14's Fan Fest dates have players crunching the numbers, and it's left them more nervous than excited

We might be in for a long wait, huh.

PC Gamer

FF14 director Yoshi-P is 'kind of glad and relieved' that Dawntrail's story is over, because players will have 'the fate of the world on their shoulders' again—but that was never the expansion's problem

I'm excited to take center stage again, but I never stopped saving reality.

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Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.3 "finished that story" devs wanted to tell with Dawntrail, and Yoshi-P is "kind of glad and relieved" it's over as the MMO once again puts "the fate of the world" on your shoulders

*stoic nod*

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