Sq. Enix held its Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival on Friday, exhibiting off what’s subsequent for the favored massively multiplayer on-line role-playing recreation. The ultimate huge shock of the present was the reveal of a Nintendo Switch 2 model of Final Fantasy 14 that is coming in August.
FF14 on the Change 2 marks the primary time the MMORPG, which launched in 2010, has made its option to a Nintendo platform. Within the brief clip of the sport being performed on the Switch 2, it does look like a devoted port of the sport to Nintendo’s latest moveable console, however it can include an extra price to these FF14 gamers who wish to play this latest model — and we do not know the way a lot it will be simply but.
Since FF14 is a subscription-based MMORPG, gamers want to purchase the sport in addition to pay for a month-to-month subscription. The subscription can run from $13 to $15 and will depend on the variety of characters a participant desires on their account.
The wrinkle for the Change 2 model is that it’s going to require its personal distinctive subscription. Because of this for these FF14 gamers already on different platforms, akin to PC, PlayStation, Xbox or Mac (all of which may be performed on the identical umbrella subscription), in the event that they wish to additionally play on Nintendo’s handheld console, they must buy the Change 2 model of the sport in addition to pay the additional month-to-month subscription price for that model. Cross-progression remains to be accessible on the Change 2 for FF14 gamers, which is able to enable them to make use of the identical character throughout all platforms.
Observe that this Nintendo-specific further cost just isn’t associated to the Nintendo Change On-line subscription, and gamers will not want the latter to play FF14 on a Change 2.
It seems this extra subscription cost got here after “many months of debate with Nintendo,” the FF14 group mentioned on the pageant’s stream. To make up for this extra charge gamers must take care of, Sq. Enix is making the primary month of FF14 on Change 2 free. Those that do have an FF14 subscription on one other platform will even obtain a 50% low cost for the Change 2 subscription.
Sq. Enix did not instantly reply to a request for affirmation of the Change 2 model’s recreation and subscription pricing.
The opposite huge information from the Remaining Fantasy 14 Fan Pageant was that of the subsequent enlargement for the sport. Evercold is about to launch January 2027. The enlargement will embody two new jobs for characters to play as, the next degree cap of 110, new cities to discover and extra dungeons and raids to finish.
Additionally coming with the Evercold enlargement is a brand new raid sequence that can function a crossover with the anime sequence Neon Genesis Evangelion. A short teaser of this raid sequence was proven, nevertheless it did not present any extra particulars about what it will include or what content material from the beloved, weird anime could be included.
Sq. Enix did not present a worth for the Evercold enlargement, however expansions sometimes retail for $40.
