Summary
Days after revealing the release date of theFinal Fantasy 14: Dawntrailexpansion, Square Enix confirmed that fans can expect to hear more news about it during the next Letter from the Producer LIVE event on April 12 and 13. The upcomingFinal Fantasy 14broadcast is expected to touch uponDawntrailnews that was not covered at the March 23 PAX East panel.
The news came just a few days afterFinal Fantasy 14: Dawntrailpre-orders went live across the globe on all platforms. While the PlayStation and Xbox pre-orders went off without many problems,someFinal Fantasy 14players reported issueswith pre-orderingDawntrailon the Square Enix Store. The storefront’s website kept crashing due to the sheer volume of users trying to access it and place pre-orders, and the problems lasted over several hours. At the time of writing, traffic on the Square Enix Store has since slowed to a normal pace, and pre-orders for theDawntrailexpansion now function as intended.
Soon,Final Fantasy 14players will get even more news in the weeks leading up to Dawntrail.According to Square Enix,Final Fantasy 14will host Letter From The Producer Live Part 80 starting Saturday, April 13 at Midnight Eastern. The Live Letter will start one hour intoFinal Fantasy 14’s annual 14-hour broadcast, with game producer and director Naoki Yoshida initially discussing the game’s 10th anniversary to start things off. Yoshida will discuss the Dawntrail expansion, including miscellaneous updates not brought up during PAX East. One of the planned segments is called “A Realm Resplendent with Warriors of Light”, which will go over some statistics about the state ofFinal Fantasy 14.
Final Fantasy 14 Letter From the Producer Live Details
However, one of the most anticipated updates aboutDawntrailthat will likely be brought up is the PC benchmark for the expansion. Given thatFinal Fantasy 14will have its first major graphical updatewhen Dawntrail launches in early access on June 28, the benchmark will give players a free tool to gauge what parts of their PCs need to be upgraded to play the expansion, and a way to preview how their characters will look with the updated graphics. In past expansions such asEndwalker, a benchmark was released exclusively for Windows a few months before launch.
It remains to be seen how Yoshida will talk aboutDawntrail’s graphics update during the Live Letter portion of the broadcast. With the Live Letter andtheFinal Fantasy 16crossover eventnow slated for April,Final Fantasy 14players will have more to look forward to soon.
Final Fantasy 14 (2010)
WHERE TO PLAY
Begin your adventure in FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm RebornCreate your very own Warrior of Light and embark upon a quest to deliver the land from an eternity of Darkness.Take to the skies in FINAL FANTASY XIV: HeavenswardTake your first steps in the reclusive nation of Ishgard, locked in a seemingly never-ending struggle with dragons.Rekindle the fires of hope in FINAL FANTASY XIV: StormbloodJourney to the East and rise up against the might of the Garlean Empire.Become the darkness in FINAL FANTASY XIV: ShadowbringersTravel to a world where light ushers all unto oblivion. But hope is not yet lost, for where there is light there is shadow.Journey to the very stars above in FINAL FANTASY XIV: EndwalkerA great calamity has been building - a second advent of the Final Days. The Warrior of Light must journey ever higher and stand firm as hope’s last bastion.Set forth for new horizons in FINAL FANTASY XIV: DawntrailBlue seas, clear skies, and boundless possibilities await! Explore uncharted territories with familiar faces as hope’s light dawns once more.
