Remaining Fantasy 14 gamers have been rejoicing about an upcoming change to the sport arriving in Patch 7.4, and it seems {that a} mod that Sq. Enix lately shut down performed a job. Whereas gamers who used mentioned mod have been bitter concerning the shutdown impacting their Final Fantasy 14 expertise, this upcoming change might assist to melt the blow.
Earlier in 2025, the favored Remaining Fantasy 14 mod Mare Synchronos acquired a stop and desist order from Sq. Enix. After working for a number of years with none vital blowback from the developer, the followers have been shocked to see it all of a sudden go, particularly after it had change into an integral a part of the expertise for customers. Mare Synchronos allowed customers to vary the way in which their participant character appeared and the way their gear appeared, and to share these visuals with different mod customers.
Final Fantasy 14 Will Bring Back Some Unobtainable Rewards
Remaining Fantasy 14 producer and director Naoki Yoshida confirms that some beforehand unobtainable rewards will come again for extra gamers to earn.
Mare Synchronos Is Gone, However It is Having an Impression on Remaining Fantasy 14 Now
In a chat with Famitsu, sport director Yoshi-P mentioned one of the hyped modifications to the sport arriving in Remaining Fantasy 14‘s Patch 7.4, which can take away the overwhelming majority of restrictions from the sport’s glamour system. Gamers have been asking for these modifications for years, and Yoshi-P defined the reasoning behind lastly agreeing to the request, which included the complaints after Mare Synchronos was taken down, and why folks loved utilizing it within the first place.
In August, Mare Synchronos all of a sudden shut down after Sq. Enix served a “authorized inquiry” to the mod creator. With over 200,000 customers within the mod’s Discord server alone, it is a choice that wasn’t made frivolously, and wasn’t acquired properly. Whereas Mare Synchronos allowed gamers to change their characters in methods by no means supposed by the builders, it additionally bypassed the restrictions on the Final Fantasy 14 glamour system. At the moment, the glamour system is ready up in order that gamers can alter the looks of their gear to seem like one other piece of kit they personal, thus permitting them to maintain the great stats whereas altering their look fully. Nevertheless, there are limitations, because the swapped-in glamour gear must be naturally equippable by the category the participant is utilizing, and be at their degree or decrease.
Beginning in Patch 7.4, these restrictions will probably be performed away with, permitting gamers to glamour their gear with gear from any class and any degree. Yoshi-P famous that after he shared a statement regarding the use of mods in FF14, gamers reached out with suggestions saying that they solely loved the sport as a result of that they had entry to mods like Mare. He determined that leaving the playstyle as much as gamers by unlocking the glamour system would assist to maintain related mods and instruments from getting used. It not solely inspired him to make the change, however to make it rapidly.
Nevertheless, that is not the solely cause Yoshi-P determined to make the change. He defined that his private choice in video games like Remaining Fantasy 14 is to have a restriction on trend with a view to keep the Remaining Fantasy aesthetic. In different phrases, by making gamers use gear supposed for his or her class, it ensured that they’d resemble the classic Final Fantasy jobs and classes that the sequence has had for the reason that get-go. Nevertheless, he acknowledged that these days, many MMORPGs have few restrictions on gear. When taking all of this into consideration, he determined that it was high quality to carry onto his private ideas, however that it was time to cease requiring that of the gamers. The change apparently even startled the event crew when he introduced his choice.
Whereas the modifications to the glamour system will not have an effect on precise participant character appearances, simply their gear, many locally really feel it is a step in the appropriate course. Remaining Fantasy 14 gamers have usually expressed that lots of the sport’s limitations are indicative of the age of the sport, with 15 years between the unique model of the sport launching and now. Nevertheless, Yoshi-P has advised that different main modifications might be coming to the sport, suggesting that Final Fantasy 14 could get a second rebirth sooner or later, and that the crew needs to “rethink all the things from scratch to evolve the sport.” Although there is not any technique to please everybody, these modifications might assist to breathe new life into Remaining Fantasy 14 and assist it to regain a few of its lapsed playerbase.
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August 27, 2013
- ESRB
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T for Teen – Language, Delicate Blood, Sexual Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence
- Engine
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Initially the Crystal Instruments engine, however at present it is a customized engine utilizing elements of the Luminous Engine.
