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A Final Fantasy 9 remake was reportedly "very far along" before Square Enix put the JRPG revival on ice, but it's not completely dead yet

Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy apparently survived being close to cancellation, so FF9 might be able to do the same

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake boss wanted to make sure its crossover with Final Fantasy 14 didn't derail the MMO's patch schedule

Naoki Hamaguchi had to tell his team to "look at our bandwidth to see what's realistic"

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Final Fantasy 14 is great and all, but Yoshi-P would "tackle completely new game designs and values" if he were to make another MMO

If he had a go at "a new online live service title from scratch," that is

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Final Fantasy 14: Evercold will revitalize the long-running MMO with all-new content and gameplay features — here are the top three things I can't wait to try

Final Fantasy 14: Evercold is looking to be a mighty expansion filled with major updates and playable content, but here are the things I'm excited to try out.

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Naoki Hamaguchi talks Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, Final Fantasy 14, and physical media plans: "It's a wonderful culture and it would be a shame to lose that"

Interview | Hamaguchi also tells us about the one FF7 Revelation feature that taught him "how hard it is to develop games these days."

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"I want this guy to make Final Fantasy 17": Yoshi-P embarrasses Final Fantasy 7 Remake lead with the "highest praise you can get" from players live on stage at FF14 Fan Fest

Yoshi-P reassured him that he didn't "have to respond" to the compliment

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Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P doesn't quite get the community hype around Chort, the chunky boss who quickly became an online icon: "Just why?"

"Honestly speaking, I just don't know why this is such a thing," Yoshi-P says

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Final Fantasy 14 Evercold changes housing for the better, Yoshi-P says, and World of Warcraft's "amazing" take on the MMO staple has "been a good source of research"

You can expect two changes to Final Fantasy 14's housing system to land during the Evercold run of post-expansion patches

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The Bastion is Final Fantasy 14's first new job for Evercold, a hulking tank with a shield and gun on each arm

As for the other job, you'll have to wait for the Japanese edition of Fan Fest

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Final Fantasy 14 boss Yoshi-P has "many game ideas" tucked away that he'd like to do something with, one being a "game design that combines AI and servers"

Whatever that means

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Final Fantasy 14 Evercold sleuths think they've figured out the MMO's new jobs, and it's thanks to the new expansion's theme that Yoshi-P hoped we wouldn't notice yet

"Hammer has been a popular request," after all

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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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Yoshi-P hoped we wouldn't notice, but Final Fantasy 14 Evercold is indeed inspired by Norse mythology

You may want to study up to get a "better understanding" of where the MMO is heading next

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Final Fantasy 14 is finally coming to Switch 2 just in time for the Evercold expansion, but you'll need to buy a separate subscription even if you play on another platform

Square Enix has announced Evercold, the sixth Final Fantasy 14 expansion launching in January 2027, alongside a Nintendo Switch 2 release, but there's a big catch.

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Final Fantasy 14 Evercold promises to scrap the MMO's 2-minute meta and change its jobs for the better, and we're all thanking the Twelve: "Nobody will miss it"

"Good riddance!"

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Yoshi-P teases new Final Fantasy 14 Evercold jobs, says fans have already guessed the weapon for one

"I will not say which one it is"

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"Butt slider?": Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P promises to pester devs about the highly-requested feature, but warns fans of the dangers of a big booty

Buffing the assets

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Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P has considered a single-player version of the MMO because some fans think "an online Final Fantasy is not a Final Fantasy"

But the only team capable of making it is preoccupied

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Final Fantasy 14's battle system planner got his start at Square Enix when he interviewed producer Yoshi-P as a journalist and "used the opportunity to ask him for a job"

"I can do anything that you ask"

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Yoshi-P won't tell Final Fantasy 14 players what the new tank and ranged physical DPS jobs are, but he will dare you to look at his T-shirt for clues

"Both of these new jobs are FF14 originals, as opposed to legacy FF jobs"

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Final Fantasy 14 Evercold promises to respect your "limited free time" as Yoshi-P teases the death of tomestones and daily roulettes, alongside shared item levels across every job

"You decide your in-game schedule based on your own real-world schedule without any penalties"

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FFXIV announces new expansion Evercold during Fanfest 2026 keynote, and whoa, it already has a release date — here's where we're going after Dawntrail

During the FFXIV Fanfest 2026 keynote in Anaheim, director Yoshi-P announced that the game's next expansion is called Evercold, and its release date, too.

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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 isn't going to be another "rebirth" for the MMO, Yoshi-P says, as it isn't on the scale of A Realm Reborn

This isn't a "second" take of the 2013 rework

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77% of US Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth players were 30 or older, analyst says, as Square Enix fights to get young people to care about the JRPG series again

62% were over 35

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