Future of FF14

[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.

[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.