What do you think the name of the next expac could be?

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Originally Posted by MrThinker

Apparently SE filed a new trademark for

'Crossblade'

this year in the same month they applied for the 'Shadowbringers' trademark back in the day - May.
Make of that what you will.

EDIT: Just to make sure, a TM in the same timeframe does not point to it absolutely being the next expansions's name. For all we know it could be the name of the other game that Yoshi's division (Creative Unit 3) is developing.

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Where did you see this Crossblade trademark? I don’t see it in the US site

Crossblade sounds not so good imo.
though before 5.4 i can't even make a guess. depending on where the story goes I could see something like "Dark Frontier" being the title

dunno what will be the english name, but jp expanssion been named with at least one colour kanji since 3.0, now we have blue(azure), red(crimson) and black i'm pretty sure it willbe white next xd and colorless in 7.0 (where i assumed the game main story gonna end).

The names of the next expansions have been leaked:

Final Fantasy XIV: Phantom Blood
Final Fantasy XIV: Battle Tendency
Final Fantasy XIV: Stardust Crusaders
Final Fantasy XIV: Diamond is Unbreakable
Final Fantasy XIV: Golden Wind
Final Fantasy XIV: Stone Ocean

The Hat-en-ing.

I imagine the localization will again be a single word, but ideally not a compound one this time, e.g.

Genesis
Terminus
Eclipse
Solstice
Arrival
Reckoning
Renewal
Etc.

It's worth noting that unless much has changed since the ARR interviews, the names of most settings, plot-lines, and job skills are actually made first in English and Japanese is one of the localizations thereafter. The expansion titles may well be an exception to this, making it very likely that the 'color' based theme will continue (Blue, Red, Black, ...[White?]), but different localizations can certainly give off very different ideas with their titles. Even on the Japanese version of the game, though, it's the English title in large font, with the Japanese tucked into the corner. Even if we know the Japanese will always two kanji (one of which is a color) + の + any number of katakana or kanji and the Chinese is always two characters (no color required; used only for Stormblood) + 之 + two characters, it doesn't actually give us clear clues for our own English title.

Heavensward --> Ishgarde of the (Blue) Heavens
Stormblood --> Liberators of the (Red) Lotus
Shadowbringers --> ...Villains in Jet Black... (I mean, really?)

Hmm, Crossblade Eclipse would be a really cool name.

Apocalypse.

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Originally Posted by Rasler_Heios

Where did you see this Crossblade trademark? I don’t see it in the US site

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Ah my apologies, it seems I forgot to specify that the trademark was in Japan.... which is an admittedly big reason why we shouldn't put all our eggs in one basket for this. Sorry about that lack of information.

Shardbreakers. Time for another Rejoining!

Shardburst

Edit: Oh the person before me had the same idea.

I'd be super amused if it's actually Shard + b???

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

I imagine the localization will again be a single word, but ideally not a compound one this time, e.g.

Genesis
Terminus
Eclipse
Solstice
Arrival
Reckoning
Renewal
Etc.

It's worth noting that unless much has changed since the ARR interviews, the names of most settings, plot-lines, and job skills are actually made first in English and Japanese is one of the localizations thereafter. The expansion titles may well be an exception to this, making it very likely that the 'color' based theme will continue (Blue, Red, Black, ...[White?]), but different localizations can certainly give off very different ideas with their titles. Even on the Japanese version of the game, though, it's the English title in large font, with the Japanese tucked into the corner. Even if we know the Japanese will always two kanji (one of which is a color) + の + any number of katakana or kanji and the Chinese is always two characters (no color required; used only for Stormblood) + 之 + two characters, it doesn't actually give us clear clues for our own English title.

Heavensward --> Ishgarde of the (Blue) Heavens
Stormblood --> Liberators of the (Red) Lotus
Shadowbringers --> ...Villains in Jet Black... (I mean, really?)

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Using this concept, and knowing the love of messing with the community...

Soul Balance --> ...justice white...

sorry, had bacon, so no food ideas right now. But all my guesses will keep the SB theme because it would be hysterical if they did.

Just a reminder to those that are looking at trademarks, Covid permanently delayed everything by 2 months so what usually gets trademarked as an expansion name at this time would instead more likely be trademarked around October now.

My personal opinion is the naming should continue the compounded two word style and not a single one, it’s a rare style almost unique. And no, please not another S-B initials.

Hmmmm wild guess: Steel Born

1. Follows the S.B. abbreviation tradition
2. Reference to Garlemald
3. I think it sounds cool