Dawntrail Release Date REVEALED!

hello packs East and hello Warriors of light yay thank you for coming we're so excited to see you it's been a jam-packed week we had patch 6.58 draw earlier and we also had our official launch on Xbox series X and Series S yay we hope you've been treating all of our new Sprouts as kindly as you can and maybe have been picked up some uh extra poetic as you've been queuing with them that said we have a lot of fun news coming so without further Ado I'd like to introduce to the stage the producer an

d director of Final Fantasy 14 naoki yosida yay boo no cosplay morning boo and a hiss no cosplay s thank you for coming today and uh thank you for watching our live stream my name is n Yoshida producer and director of Final Fantasy 14 oh yes hi I'm iy from Square NX I'll be helping Yas on here with the translations today yay everything but yeah thank you guys so much for coming to today's panel lots of lots of you out here there it's like FanFest again yeah a really good yeah it's like a roller

[Music] [Applause] coaster fantasy Final Fantasy 14 kind of true so for today's Pack's main stage uh of course we would like to thank all of our players our Warriors of light around the world um looking back at the 10 years of Final Fantasy 14 and then also talk about some new stuff that's coming up and how we're going to proceed from there hey don't know about Med even if I did I couldn't tell so yeah just having this opportunity and having a venue to speak about our title and get together with

all of the players and and just get excited is such uh an honor so again I just want to thank everybody doesn't mean I know something I'm literally saying even if I did I could never tell you [Applause] okay I'm sorry that hat is incredible this guy is dead center of the camera on purpose because that cat that hat is top shelf I love that guy just like hell yeah brother do Trail [Applause] coming okay so I'd like to take a look at our trajectory release of A Realm Reborn and the registered numb

er of accounts oh sub numbers going left and right we got sub scenix versus blizzard 4 million 18 million this is registered account Subs so as you can see y we've seen an increase from 4 million to 10 million to 18 [Applause] million but yeah we are truly um Blown Away by these numbers it's almost unbelievable to us but it's just so wonderful to have so much back uh backup or support from you all 21 I just want to see a show of hands who here has been playing since the original 1.0 Final Fantas

y for yay we have thank you wonderful that's good to see thank you we'll skip comat what that a lot of cat girls yeah for sure um yeah we did start out really rough with the original 1.0 version but I'm so glad that you believed in us and you continued to stick with us so thank you again yay so from here I'd like to talk about the different expansions that we released and what we went through with each one okay fantasy make sure we got recing this is around born when we sort of rebuilt Final Fan

tasy 14 um so when we first um rebuilt a 14 of course I'm sure a lot of you may remember but it's great that we were able to release the game but with the server troubles and login issues you know you see that all too don't get any World server full right now I know I'm sure nobody wants to see that again that said those of you who tried to log in at the start of end Walker I'm sure the numbers in that eror dialogue was much higher maybe three times the [Music] number but with Don Trail we have

increased the Ser number of servers so I'm hoping I'm hoping fingers crossed that this dialogue won't pop up for you guys okay okay sure sure Yoshi sure sure and of course with Around Reborn I'm sure you will have some memorable encounters including Titan which was very challenging by the way I remember uh the challenge of Titan was quite quite tough so with his Landslide and we may have lost about 300,000 registered accounts St dark light attire or uh the Armor Series oh remember yeah okay and

with that uh we released our first expansion Heaven's word yay this crowd is not keeping this energy no way so with a Heaven's word we tried to look at the difficulty level of the different battles encounters dungeons so uh with the raids uh we incorporated the normal and Savage tears so Heaven's word was a lot of learning for us um we received a lot of feedback after the release of real reborn and some of it was oh isn't the raid just a little too easy to get through uh and so we were like okay

fine we get it it was it was a little bit easy too much so we adjusted it we adjust usted the difficulty level and now everybody was saying no it's too hard you did it too far for the next trick we destroyed the ra Community oh watch this but um with the feedback received that is when we reviewed the job mechanics again and the different uh abilities that were available and made adjustments accordingly and of course um we were able to hold our very first Fan Festival this year yay droing energy

droing by the way with the first Fan Festival um did any of you attend the very first Last Vegas Fan Festival May I see a show of hand thank you thank you This was um the keynote presentation where I was the most nervous next the P audio [Music] [Applause] so and of course um we continue to receive feedback and we um we were able to look to that to adjust uh the different job mechanics as well as the battle mechanics representation will be happy and of course um we tried to diversify our conten

t as well uh including uh large scale multiplayer content like Eureka I think some of you are still enjoying that content um doen Majin is another thing um so not only did we sort of expand on the difficulty now we're going for the breadth of content eure [Music] Kum you know and when we were talking about ER back at the time in like a live letter and we looked at the chat and a lot of people were going zzz zzz or no more Eureka yeah but that's it because we took these risks and take on these ch

allenges that's why we able to bring such variety of content correct yay and of course we release shadowbringers Final Fantasy and so with this expansion we kind of focused on the story and the RPG aspect of it and trying to blend together the narrative into some of the combat that you encountered and we feel that we were able to start reaching that sort of culmination Point as of Shadow ringers and I think because of your help we were able to grow as an RPG as well Final Fantasy and of course i

n at this timing there were more and more players joining Final Fantasy 14 and we realized that there are different needs for different players and so that's when we started looking at accommodating for even more variety of [Music] content and with all that it connected into end [Applause] Walker and of course with Final Fantasy 14 we are an MMO RPG which doesn't technically end per se um but we tried to bring a sort of finale uh to a story arc at this time and of course we have a lot of people

um who enjoyed the story and thankfully we had some really great acclaim about our story uh being very robust for an RPG and a lot of people were able to to join Final Fantasy 14 and with this expansion we kind of focused in on solo content uh those that can be enjoyed with either one person or a small group of people and so of course uh we implemented the support system so that players who want to enjoy the story and the encounters that are associated with it um can go into these different dung

eons by ourself and we were able to backtrack and support uh content or Duty support from AR all the way to end Walker oh thank you thank you you prefer eure to BU do [Music] this um it is kind of curious because even if this is an online game where typically it's uh necessary for people to work with other players to play there are certain people who hesitate because they don't want that sort of interaction with other players that's try Final Fantasy 14 that said um with content uh Duty support

um of course that also helped but then the community welcomed these new peoples and they were able to support them through their growth and I think we were able to grow in numbers uh of Warrior of light so I think that's also a great um step forward as well so with all that said now we're striving for the future which leads us to our next expansion yay tacos we're going to the beach extra so uh on the Final Fantasy 14 team internally we call this 7.0 we say summer 2024 result and I know people a

re saying well when when are we going to find out about the release date [Applause] um don't worry we will talk about it just later in the presentation oh he thinks he's so good he thinks he's not right now U so of course this 7.0 AKA Dawn Trail is our next challenge in the 10e moving forward so one of the first challenges we want to take on for the next 10 years is going to be this okay the Titans know they need to plan long term these days and Walker through the 6.x patch series we were making

preparations to welcome in those more casual leaning players or people who wanted to enjoy con content by themselves solo so with Dawn tril we want to aim for uh evolving as an MMO RPG so really curious what what is the evolution so um I would like to go through what we're thinking about specifically um in a sort of like an overview of our coule balls Yoshi what we looking at um so of course we would like to focus in on multiplayer aspect uh as one of those things I need [Music] so with that we

would like to refine or to tackle on more large scale duties so content that kind of are in the same vein of Eureka or bosia is going to be in the works MH yeah not going to that up again Final Fantasy and so there are lots of content we're trying to develop right now some of them that may not be mentioned here today in today's present presentation but we understand that there are a lot of different values that people hold um as they are playing Final Fantasy 14 so we want to also focus in on l

arge scale content multiplayer content um as we go through um 7.1 and two and Beyond of course we're not neglecting the solo or smaller scale content like the variant dungeons we will continue to update that um and so it's going to be more in parallel we're going to have the smaller scale content versus the the large um participating cont I'm guessing the solo stuff will just be kind of a little bit and one another important element that I want to cover is this so of course a more fulfilling gam

ing experience is how we worded it but we want to kind of focus in on this as well what does that mean keep very very surpr so for example uh this is one of the many feedback that we have received um in that kind of relates to that fulfilling gaming experience for example the target circle of your enemy the hitbox is ridiculously large at this [Music] point and in terms of battle mechanics um they tend to be very similar content to content and some people might feel that it's very repetitive fee

ls like a pattern almost and of course it might help if you are trying to build your like gameplay experience and try to get a a hang of it but for some players me included I kind of get sleepy because it it kind of gets routine and mundane you know we rarely fall asleep when we're playing games if we're really into it but then sometimes when I get too tired it's like oh okay I'm gonna so I'm trying to see if I can but spice it up a little bring the excitement back uh that said I do want to advi

se you I feel like he's talking aot about talk about something like this I know some people might get a knee-jerk reaction of oh no Yoshida is going to make everything difficult [Applause] again it's overall but I mean for the most part we're not trying to trouble people we just we're trying not to make your lives difficult it's just we want to bring a little bit more uniqueness something that is new and original into these battles so um rest [Music] assured well raids are ADV so in the Japanese

word there's this word kuo um which Loosely translates to kind of thinking with your own mind and kind of figuring out figuring it out so I think we want to encourage players to build your own strategies kind of talk to each other in your party to strategize and kind of encourage that kind of gameplay also he and so of course we would love to take challenges I would like for my developers to be able to take on challenges take risks in creating their content and of course we may screw up we may

have a misstep and we might be up here apologizing to our players once again you know we don't want things to be mundane we want you guys to be excited as you play Final Fantasy 14 I wonder if they're going to move away from there being a set solution this kind of talk it might bring back the question like well so what's going to happen to the different jobs and mechanics not overall but like just one or two mechanics you've got to adapt much more fluidly than you do in a more coish style so bec

ause we are reaching a sort of Milestone level cap which is level 100 it's not where we don't intend to upset everything yeah I mean never one and zero binary this it might be one or two mechanics on top of everything else add on to throughout the 7x Series so of course we're going to be focusing on the content itself and the encounters throughout um 7.1 2 and three to bring back that sort of excitement I assume the level squished once you reach 100 you don't really want to go past that and so w

e talked about how we're going to bring back excitement to the content itself but you know well what is it what's in it for me why would uh to newcomer player 100 like a lot I know that sounds with that we are looking into sort of improving the rewards uh so that um yeah we can sort of number Point people and and so with the different expansions throughout um since we released ARR up to this point we were unable to increase the number of rewards per patch that we give um in terms of gear or moun

ts and so looking to the Future and just considering how wide and Broad we have become with the different content that we offer um we would like to look into increasing the amount of rewards that we are providing our players and [Applause] um so the plans are in place so our goal is that by patch 7.3 is um we would have maybe 1.5 times more compared to current just number of rewards [Applause] okay so with your subscriptions and and just use continuing to stay with us we have um collected from y

ou so we want to give back so we want to continue looking into things like this so Dawn tril um I know we've announced many uh information but I just wanted to do a very quick recap of what we've already talked about oh God not a lot of f of course two new jobs Viper and pancer please no more lains I can't I can't see more and level cap will be increased which is sort of [Applause] mil that said we also have to start looking into what should we do for 8.0 and do we raise it just another 10 level

20 levels 50 levels or do we just reset everything and go back to 50 side um that said um jokes aside we are looking into a long-term plan that's why we're trying to also look at what would it look like 10 years 20 years from now thank [Applause] you and of course um Xbox players thank you so much for your patience we were able to release the Xbox version of Final Fantasy 14 [Music] yay make the levels [Applause] 3D maybe they should reverse oh theyve got paragon levels technically still 100ic

exploration areas new threats new dungeons we have prepared for you I do hate crafting I don't hate crafting that's the wrong word I just haven't done it I'm not interested in crafting don't hate I don't hate crafting I just don't give a crafting different and so of course we have the new raid that's going to be coming um and then as for the large cont where everybody can participate would be the cosmic Explorer where you're on a planet trying to explore and develop so um game our systems kind o

f drafted in place and so we are getting ready for production on that [Applause] look at this handsome devil and then thirsty girls in the chat thirsty girls in the audience uh 14 no 16 don't um so of course with a lot of challenges that we are taking for the new Final Fantasy 14 expansion not 16 7.0 Early Access now of course we are all going to wait to the true release right we're all waiting for the true release cuz we're good nobody here is going to play at the Early Access right guys Final

Fantasy 14 don't I am not going to stream until the TR to be respectful for the Devion um so thank you so much for your patience I know we waited for a long time to announce this but uh we are happy to say that we are planning to start early access on June 28th and uh official release on July 2nd and we're making our final adjustments on those expect this going forward from every bigo um so with this early access start date um we actually wanted to start it a week earlier elen ring [Applause] DE

C we figured everybody would be interested in playing the Elden ring [Laughter] DLC I'll give you one [Laughter] week Jesus Cowboy boys not [Applause] impressed Cowboys not impressed you don't give a Elven ring [Applause] [Music] so uh I'll give you one week to enjoy Elden ring DLC and then just go into your summer vacation Into Dawn tril that's a good deal um just want to make it clear it's not because I want to play Olden R DLC and then play y although I am looking forward to it um so because

we have release date um I would like to touch upon the collector's edition um so if we could have the um want to show the content of what the physical collector's edition entails ooh [Applause] shiny That's my boy that's my [Applause] [Applause] boy Christ he's got so much jewelry jingle [Applause] Jangles Edition okay so getting into the contents of the physical collectors edition as you can see we have our high quality Viper [Applause] [Music] figure aratana Final Fantasy 14 that looks really

poor quality our map of the [Applause] realm hold on let me neatly put this [Music] away um okay next is the unending Journal uh and in Journey as a journal form sorry it's got a cut scenes in it so of course it is literally a journal so um you can note down um your adventures in this [Applause] book and so this um it's actually a sort of like a a vintage looking uh p case um but yeah we were really um meticulous about the design of this pen case um kind of uh replicating that feeling of an adve

nturer taking his sort of writing utensils and storing it into this kind of envelope uh you can roll it up and roll it up yeah and it has a string that you can close it surround it guys so of course um you can utilize this for not just T but any um sort of stick like objects to put in there actually this one we might want to wear gloves um or do we I like the Box a hell of a lot we haven't forgotten the decorative art box featuring The Wonderful artwork of Mr Yoshi taka [Applause] [Music] Amo de

finitely T so these are the physical um components of The Collector yeah I'd like to get my hands on one to give a prop eye level up I don't think I'd use the assuming it is a mouse pad but uh probably put it on the wall or something okay oh someone's going to Y that eyes on that box security this is our collector's edition physical items yeah if it's not mouse pad it's just something to put up which is fine I prefer it that it looks very yeah it's just a so and this is a list of the physical it

ems that will be included in the collector's edition um if you could please consider um pre-ordering this um but yeah uh your consideration would be definitely [Applause] appreciated just out of curiosity um who here has collected all of the collector's edition since ar oh my gosh worse oh God I think I've got that I just noticed that some of our most my col editions are opened still very interesting thank you so much for your purchase a plushy taco okay so we went over the physical $15 next I w

ould like to talk about the digital items big oh here it comes um so in regards or in relation to that we brought a short video to show you uh please Roll video you rat [Music] [Music] bastards [Applause] um so yeah the video that you've seen um it's pretty self-explanatory but one of the digital items that you can receive in the collectors is ition is the ark Mount yeah where's wind up cheered for that minion too where's my windup Steiner Big true saying this is part of the collector's edition

being implemented the Glam weapon is going to be theit dele version and I see in the audience somebody already has a pancer brush that's amazing oh it's cryle oh thank you perfect the digital yeah you don't need to sell the [Music] physicals so again these are the digal items um but we do have a a kind of complex uh sort of Skuse lineup so allow me to explain um so the setup is just like our last expansion and Walker but just wanted giveway windows so if you are playing on a Windows or Mac uh no

t steam I'm sorry um but that would be the top row where you see that collector's edition this is the whole bundle where the game uh the expansion the physical goods and the in-game items come in one one package PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox I don't know how copies to give away like usually get a on P PS5 Xbox series X or S uh or steam so we have the physical items packaged by themselves as a collector's box and then the digital items would be bundled into the digital how they chargeing just

to get the box you just want buy the statue in5 if you just want the digital items um you don't care about the physical items just give me the arc amount then you can go for the digital collector's edition and then finally we have Edition this is just the expansion um and so for those people who St worth think the standard edition will not really pertain to you so yeah I understand it's a bit complicated so we will be having a website set up so that it explains the different lineups so um if you

wanted to get more details we encourage you maybe because I don't really want a Viper statue a bad statue and another point of caution and you may be familiar with this uh since end Walker we have not produced a physical disc version of the game or the expansion itself so warned um if you go into like a game retailer you will not find the standard edition dis there anymore it's all digital download only hi I miss a box copy of the game just a little case little so good remember they started sel

ling the case with no disc in it I would mind if it was on USB these days that would be fine like a cool little USB stick with the game on so of course with the different updates that we're making including the graph put paper you will have to adjust the system requirements for your platform there badass custom USB STI um which is the singular Point um on this chart of system requirements window back I love it I've got like orange Bo none of our PCS have disc drives a single one so originally on

the Windows platform the required the minimum system requirements indicated Intel Core i76700 Series or higher um we are going to be bumping it up to require the 7 s uh 100 series drives old news USB s with a model on it something nice about the ttile field especially if You' got like a sh for the I think there of people still buy Blu-ray they say um so there are a couple reasons why we had to bump this up um One is because with some combinations the CPU and the graphics board um seems to have

seen issues in performance so um that's one reason and then uh it seems there was an announcement that uh the 6700 uh will no longer be supported on the Windows platform and it was announced uh last year that that support was ending this it was better top up uh so that we'll have a supported um CPU so I'm hoping that everybody is okay on their machines but just in case you might want to double check your CPU in the wallet and another thing the um let's see the HDD available dis space I hope you

are able to secure enough space for the game to be download hard drive I bet there's somebody here who's still working on a physical hard drive some not guaranteed um with the graphical updates um a lot of highres um materials will need to be downloaded into the game and so size will be so please be advised I still use Cass tap like a Fu we have hard drives in our server yeah we have physical and of course for those of you who play on the Mac platform we have updated the requirements on that as

well um again we will have a website available to uh reference for these different uh details of your machine specs I have yet to game on a Mac it has never come up never game okay so we announced the Early Access and release dates so let's go into pre-ordering the expansion course we'd like to talk about I write all the code out CH a Blackboard and then put it through a scanner to read each command a day so of course when you pre-order these are the in-game items that you receive a zidane minio

n and then an azma earring yeah um you may notic a lot of Final Fantasy 9 references here but the reason is a secret I'm not sure Mass cloning project going on um this is similar to the last pre-order bonus but um whenever you defeat an enemy the experience points that you receive the chem trails into this I think we might have um the stats on the accessory itself will also kind of scale as your player is uh leveling your character so it are getting trans limit break has been replaced of a more

fulfilling gameplay experience so we've removed limit break and now we have trans um so of course I do want to caution you because uh there may be some of you who are purchasing an expansion for the first time with D tril um so you need to make sure you have pre-ordered the expansion in order to gain Early Access so if you don't pre-order while everybody's going on summer vacation June 28th and you realize wait I have haven't pre-ordered so you have to wait until the actual release which is July

the 2nd so um if you want Early Access you might want to pre-order make that cash make that cash tomorrow free orders will begin next week yay Ste exactly I can't remember the exact time came will be one set time globally so um it's on the disclaimer down there at 9:00 a.m. PDT but the rest is local time 9:00 a.m. uh let's see America would be uh West Coast time but relevance to this s just for the remainder of the discuss and of course the in-game bonuses that you receive with pre-ordering wil

l be delivered to you via uh delivery mugal as soon as we are able to confirm the pre-order so you are able to access these before the expansion launches [Music] [Applause] yeah no foro refers to the people like uh well I'm not going to pre-order to see if it's any good and then you see all your friends playing and you're like well I just want to play the game it's out now and I in our poor delivery mugal they may be like oh I'm so tired Shadow brers Ander that said we will be delivering these i

n-game items um as we confirm your pre-order so um we would encourage you to do so internet required Trail expansion sking a little bit skiing a little bit Final Fantasy here we go that said I know there was a panel on Final Fantasy 16 just yesterday final fantasye law solution I was just explained in the last few seconds you miss mentioned that oh yeah Final Fantasy 14 producer director you're welcome to announce the crossover quest line release [Music] [Applause] date oh so that April 2nd is g

oing to be the date that the crossover Coast Line will become available so it will begin as soon as we enter the month of April so I hope you uh take a look I hope it's really dark story time I want it to be the s16 everyone's dead somebody's eating babies like some shit's going on and of course um we understand that um there are players of Final Fantasy uh 16 who are looking forward to the PC release so um we don't want to spoil the story for those who are on 14 who are waiting for 16 so the cr

ossover content kind of covers like the the first part of the game without any spoilers but we have made sure that the rewards are very robust so I hope you look forward to that so we might got some sit then he I would to the 50 one where you just kind of like the universe confused and of course um it it did take a while but um the team worked really hard and we were able to announce the implementation date so um I believe we do have um landing pages web pages that uh give us the details on thes

e I've not heard of a rebirth um I think you will be able to find details about say where the quest Giver is and things like that so once the page does open up I think we'll get it fre right it's kind of later in the game you get the actual of course it's right I think that um we are approaching the end of one g i mean the there's too much spoilers I can't Avo maybe it's C Joshua that would make [Music] sense go no I'm sorry I only he the cheers I was curious to know what that guy was saying wha

t what I didn't do any I didn't see any spiders similar to poe1 but I would highly supect thereor creepy spiders i' would be surprised if not I didn't face anything like all that I I guar um so yeah today was the announcement for the release timing and so we will be conducting uh a media tour towards the beginning of May is um and we do plan on revealing more information in the lead up [Music] to and of course in April we plan to do another letter from the producer live to talk about the graphic

al updates uh utilizing actual in-game um uh yeah using iname um but yeah the team is working really hard and I think we're reaching the peak of our development uh prod production and uh I actually am also reviewing the materials that come up and in my hotel room the material in his hotel room all right all right um so the team is working really hard so just a little bit more of your patience would be definitely appreciated we will watch the live letter but I mean we may do a bit of Skippers it'

s like look at this Alis ear look at this ear look at it a what an ear tree what an awesome tree this is best tree I've ever seen in my life um so once again I would like to just look back at the 10 years of AR and if you count po um just how much support we've received from players around the world and just how appreciative I am of you all they just showed a variety of Glam side by side that would get the that would get everybody reason we were able to get this far in our journey is just truly

truly truly because of the players our Warriors of light gam in general care about po I am shocked one of the biggest complaints about thunderstorm has been having to reset your mug every time you go in I'm like who the is we will continue to for aing for the next years you know um like who's doing that bring you Final Fantasy 14 it's important it's important thank you bye yay Ashi all right pretty good the focus on the multiplayer was definitely a really nice uh the focus on the multiplayer was

a fantastic fantastic things to here really curious what the new gameplay style is going to be to make it a bit more Dynamic it'll apply to all probably uh PVE content I really would love to see something on the dungeons to make them more Dynamic that would be a lot of fun that would be a huge lot of fun solo stuff's probably just going to stay as it is and then keep ticking over I guess I that's pretty good it's like plates it's important not really you can't even see the plate right uh 7.3 is

um their current goal for having everything in place so we'll probably see some early signs of it in the beginning but obviously the the first patch is going to be msq focused in the early bosses or the launch it'll be awesome all con had shallow brers Walker combined I think it I think they're on track for a really really solid launch which they could do with right now uh that would be I everything seems pretty Rock Solid right now everything seems pretty good uh my game plan still stands to p

lay some pianer at the start and give everybody like probably till the normal release before we jump into the msq uh I think for our community in general most people will be sort of like consuming Dawn Trail pretty hardcore from the release date so I think I'm probably going to go that way but we'll see um Jesse asked wait does Jesse know he's going on the media tour cuz I don't