Future of FF14

[Splat_86]

Greetings everyone.

First of all sorry to post this topic on the new player help but i'm a sprout still in game and in the forums xD

I started my journey in FF14 last november i came over from WoW and so far no regrets.
I have been seeing alot of posts around differend medias about how many expansions this game will have, seems that people like to say 2 or 3 more adding up the "excuse" of new hardware or new engine coming out and i'm like "wtf...that's nothing related to FF14" plus there is an article on Forbes stating that SE has no plans for a new MMORPG given the fact that the game is doing great.

I wanted to know your thoughts on this and if you think we will go beyond the current story arc?

Thank you all in advance.

[RicaRuin]

*like a broken record* Yoshi-P stated in an interview that he has plans and ideas for FF XIV and its story even after the current Story Arc is done. And considering how long FF XI is running... one doesn't have to worry about FF XIV's future at all.

[Dreakon13]

I'm pretty new myself still and I'm particularly curious how they plan to handle the PS5 (most likely) coming late 2020.

Does FFXIV get a proper remastering with updated visuals/framerates/load times to take advantage of the better hardware, or do they just stick with plain old backwards compatibility? Does the PS4 eventually get phased out like the PS3 did? Are they planning on gearing up to use these added resources, or slowing down and standing pat? The more they outright support the PS5 and not cut corners, the more comfortable I feel about the games health and support for the next 5-10 years. Personally.

They are interesting questions. I'm sure Squenix doesn't even quite know the path forward yet.

[Noitems]

I'm pretty new myself still and I'm particularly curious how they plan to handle the PS5 (most likely) coming late 2020.

Does FFXIV get a proper remastering with updated visuals/framerates/load times to take advantage of the better hardware, or do they just stick with plain old backwards compatibility? Does the PS4 eventually get phased out like the PS3 did? Are they planning on gearing up to use these added resources, or slowing down and standing pat? The more they outright support the PS5 and not cut corners, the more comfortable I feel about the games health and support for the next 5-10 years. Personally.

They are interesting questions. I'm sure Squenix doesn't even quite know the path forward yet.

My guess is the graphics themselves will only be slightly polished. We can tell from some current glams and the maps of 5.0 themselves that there are still some pretty bad textures and if the game functions on the cycle it is currently running it'd be a big overhaul to make it work for 6.0 and the PS5.

However the big thing I think that will happen is be a focus on loading times and the seamless amount of time it'll take to load into instances. That's been a huge pushing point for the next generation of consoles to match the prowess of PC's so I think that'll be their first focus if anything.

[RicaRuin]

They once said that they can't just upgrade to a better graphic engine, since they are still partly running on the old 1.0 code and it would simply be too much work and resources needed to move on to a better one that it's not really possible.

[DrWho2010]

they do graphics to meet minimum pc specs (which a launch PS4 can outdo really). they don't do it the otherway round by making graphics intensive stuff and scale it down.

they'll make a PS5 client for the game, but as long as min PC specs is a thing (until they update their definition of what those are) they'll always create to that standard.

[Rufalus]

I'm pretty new myself still and I'm particularly curious how they plan to handle the PS5 (most likely) coming late 2020.

Does FFXIV get a proper remastering with updated visuals/framerates/load times to take advantage of the better hardware, or do they just stick with plain old backwards compatibility?

Yeah so there's no rush due to full back compat this time, still AMD x86 but they'll probably want to get a PS5 client out asap and it's just a higher performance profile like the PS4 Pro version was. Same assets but improved framerate and resolution, more objects on screen, more post-processing effects, dramatically faster loading because PS5 has fast memory as standard (some as yet unspecified type of next-gen SSD memory).

And yeah the future of FF XIV looks exactly the same as the present. We've had a very consistent rate of major patching since the 2013 relaunch and there's no end in sight to this model because the game is performing well financially.