Summary
Final Fantasy 14producer and director Naoki Yoshida has released a statement explaining that players will be compensated with game time as an apology forDawntrail’s launch issues. Yoshida stated thatFinal Fantasy 14players on Xbox Series X/S will receive ten days of game time, while players on all other platforms will get two days of game time.
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrailis the fifth expansion since the game’s 2013 relaunch asA Realm Reborn. With the new continent of Tural and the game’s first major graphical update as the main features,Dawntrailis billed as the start of a new chapter forFinal Fantasy 14. Though login queues and crashes marred its predecessorEndwalker,Dawntrailhad a much smoother launch by comparison, thanks to steps taken by Square Enix toalleviate server congestion ahead ofDawntrail’s early access window. As a result, the login queues forDawntrailwere mostly isolated to the Aether data center in North America and the Phoenix server in Europe.
Final Fantasy 14 Confirms Game Time Compensation
Yoshida said that the implementation of game time will start around July 11 at 1:30 AM Eastern, but clarified that the process will take an additional two to three days to complete. The game’s producer also stated that the added game time is an apology for the zone transition issues that are currently plaguing the Xbox version ofFinal Fantasy 14. A fix for the Xbox Series X/S version, as well asother problematic glitches inDawntrail, is still being worked on, but will likely require a client-side patch and server maintenance to implement. Yoshida also commended players for using the Data Center Travel system to visit the Dynamis data center in North America as a way to alleviate the queues on the Aether data center.
WithPatch 7.01 launching on July 16, theFinal Fantasy 14development team is having a busy July. It’s unclear when Square Enix will release a bug fix patch to address these pressing concerns.
Final Fantasy 14 (2010)
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