{"id":646524,"date":"2026-03-29T18:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith"},"modified":"2026-03-29T18:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:16:23","slug":"final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 14 &#8211; an MMO at its zenith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nFinal Fantasy 14 has had an absolute stonker of a year. 2021 saw the release of its latest Expansion, Endwalker, and an extraordinary increase in players, making it the most profitable game in the Final Fantasy series&#8217; history. It&#8217;s quietened down a little (and only a little), but with over eight-years worth of updates and millions of players to its name, FF14 is now, unsurprisingly, one of the biggest games on the planet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a position the game rightfully deserves, with each of its expansions praised by critics for an epic storyline that&#8217;s gone from confronting evil empires to quelling thousand-year wars or hopping dimensions and facing a universe-destroying embodiment of despair, all while deftly navigating the threads that tie it all together. <\/p>\n<p>\nAs an MMO full of references to other games in the series, FF14 is often called a &#8216;Final Fantasy theme park&#8217; &#8211; but there&#8217;s far more to it than that. Its storyline rivals any of the single-player FF games &#8211; yes, even FFVII &#8211; while <em>the<\/em> daddy of Final Fantasy and its original creator, Hironobu Sakaguchi, plays it for fun. He&#8217;s so into it he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/final-fantasy-creator-begins-his-own-clothing-line-in-final-fantasy-14\">started his own in-game fashion brand<\/a>, in fact, and frequently tweets his adventures. Its blend of epic, player-central storyline and huge array of casual extras continues to surprise me even now, and despite approaching it with some scepticism after the original failed release in 2010, FF14&#8217;s managed to keep its hooks in me consistently for over eight years, in a way no other game has. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Fantasy 14 has had an absolute stonker of a year. 2021 saw the release of its latest Expansion, Endwalker, and an extraordinary increase in players, making it the most profitable game in the Final Fantasy series&#8217; history. It&#8217;s quietened down a little (and only a little), but with over eight-years worth of updates and millions of players to its name, FF14 is now, unsurprisingly, one of the biggest games on the planet. It&#8217;s a position the game rightfully deserves, with each of its expansions praised by critics for an epic storyline that&#8217;s gone from confronting evil empires to quelling thousand-year wars or hopping dimensions and facing a universe-destroying embodiment of despair, all while deftly navigating the threads that tie it all together. As an&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":646525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[259,79,7662,7663,8076,2466,279,135,59,844,44,45,53,8057],"class_list":["post-646524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-action-adventure","tag-fantasy","tag-final-fantasy-14-stormblood","tag-final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborn","tag-final-fantasy-xiv-heavensward","tag-final-fantasy-14-endwalker","tag-jrpg","tag-mmo","tag-pc","tag-ps3","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-science-fiction","tag-state-of-the-game"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Final Fantasy 14 - an MMO at its zenith | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Final Fantasy 14 has had an absolute stonker of a year. 2021 saw the release of its latest Expansion, Endwalker, and an extraordinary increase in players,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Final Fantasy 14 - an MMO at its zenith | Arcader News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Final Fantasy 14 has had an absolute stonker of a year. 2021 saw the release of its latest Expansion, Endwalker, and an extraordinary increase in players,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-29T18:16:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"270\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/final-fantasy-14-an-mmo-at-its-zenith\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\"},\"headline\":\"Final Fantasy 14 &#8211; 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