House whales must wait
One of the extremely anticipated November releases across the Destructoid “workplace” is Remaining Fantasy XIV: Endwalker. Serving as the ultimate chapter of the sport’s present narrative and the beginning of one thing new, loads of workers across the web site are excited to see what Yoshi-P has in retailer. And we’re going to need to preserve that pleasure going for a bit longer as an Endwalker delay was introduced final evening in a Letter from the Producer dwell stream on Twitch.
Remaining Fantasy XIV: Endwalker will now launch on December 7, with the beginning of Early Entry starting on December 3. The shift in schedule means among the deliberate patches even have new launch dates. Patch 6.0.1 will probably be obtainable beginning December 21, whereas Patch 6.0.5 will go up on January 4, 2022. In a weblog put up on the Remaining Fantasy XIV web site, Yoshi-P defined the delay is because of him and his staff fine-tuning the sport to make it one of the best expertise they might. Sadly, all these changes pushed into the time put aside for closing high quality assurance checks, with Yoshi-P writing:
At this charge, there was an even bigger threat of us reaching the discharge date with out guaranteeing “stability” as one type of high quality, and for that cause, I’ve determined to postpone the discharge at the moment. As we additionally anticipate massive quantities of congestion throughout all recreation Worlds, I felt that even on this respect it wouldn’t be proper for us to launch the growth whereas missing ample “stability.” I’m actually sorry.
If there may be one factor I’ve come to study in regards to the FFXIV fanbase since beginning the sport up myself a couple of years in the past, it’s that they’re extremely forgiving and appreciative of all the pieces Yoshi-P and his workers have finished to show round this recreation from its near-disastrous debut. The Letter from the Producer stream touched on extra than simply the delay as a lot of Endwalkers options have been detailed throughout it. You’ll be able to watch the stream linked above to search out out all the pieces, or you may simply hop onto the FFXIV Twitter account to get a great abstract of all the pieces talked about, together with how Ishgard housing will work.
I’m nonetheless a couple of expansions again from being the place I should be to play by Endwalker, however I’m actually having fun with this journey towards its finish. Hopefully, someday in 2022, I’ll be capable of meet up with the remainder of the participant base and expertise all the pieces contemporary and new because it’s added to the sport.
CJ Andriessen
Simply what the web wants: one more white man writing about video video games.