Square Enix: When FF14 Ends...

[Kikoten]

The only reason FFXIV ended was because it was an utter failure of a game. FF mmos don't tend to "end"

Source: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/dow...stall_win.html

Thank you!

[Sanadaiyeve]

Here I was finally allowing myself to rewatch game play footage of my time with Sanadaiyeve four years ago. All the friends I met, all battles, all our victories, laughing together, crying together. Laying down half conscious in the grass contemplating our feels after a marmot beat us half dead. All the magical encounters, meeting Y'shtola, Merlwyb, Kan-E-Senna, everyone for the first time. What I wouldn't give to relive 1.0. Every second of it.

And here's this thread talking about FFXIV and the faint remainder of it's 1.0 soul, dying with finality.

Crying so much a new shroud would grow in Thanalan. I hope FFXIV never dies. It's the most amazing experience I've ever had. I broke my life long promise of addiction to FFXI for FFXIV 1.0. I hope FFXIV remains forever so I can always hang out with my sister Sanadaiyeve. I want to grow old with her, with Y'shtola T_T, with Merlwyb, everyone. I love you FFXIV. When ?.0's death takes 1.0's aether with it so too shall it take mine.

[Cedri]

Thank you!

Yer'welcome.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I absolutely adore Answers as a song, but I don't think it should be used again. It was already a bookend for the Calamity. For the beginning and ending of Bahamut's impact on modern day Eorzea. It's very hard to imagine it being used again and stirring in me the feelings it did when the full chorus hit after Teraflare in T13.

Welllll....they did use it again in the credits for 2.5. JUST SAYING!

[Nestama]

I was going to suggest they could do something similar to what they did with FFXI and remix the main theme (XI's was the Vana'diel March) into a song (with players humming the chorus at the end), but then I realised that Answers has sort of always been FFXIV's main theme...

So idunno. Twilight Over Thanalan song?

Welllll....they did use it again in the credits for 2.5. JUST SAYING!

And in the 2.0 credits.

[Zephyranthes]

Such a great cover. If this was recorded inside a high-end professional recording studio with quality fixes, it would had been epic.

[Kikoten]

Maybe I should take back all that stuff I said about "FF14's story ending." I just remembered the long, long history of Eorzea's Astral/Umbral Eras. Who's to say time would stop after this one?

Still, I didn't think I'd slice so many onions while listening to a cover of one of my favorite Final Fantasy songs. I hope Erutan realizes that her cover is actually good, and that anyone who says otherwise probably didn't even truly listen to it.