Quote Originally Posted by Dreakon13 View Post
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.