The director says that Final Fantasy XIV could go on for at least another five years

Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida recently spoke about the future of online multiplayer online role-playing Washington Post, saying that at the current rate of growth, users can expect the online world to continue expanding with new content for at least five years, if not indefinitely.

“Even now, [Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda] “He encourages us to work for more players and 30 million adventurers, and he still has plans for the future for us,” said Yoshida. Washington Post through the translator. “Fortunately, we do not see any stopping in our momentum. At one point we thought we might find ourselves, but fortunately our player base continues to expand and grow.

Although developing the game is never easy, Final Fantasy XIV the expansions and patches continued to reach a decent clip under Yoshida’s guidance due to the way his team streamlined the new content creation process. Yoshida said that while planning expansions, he expects about 70% of the work to be done due to previous development, leaving enough space to iterate these standardized resources.

Writing, Yoshida added, is always done much earlier. The story for Final Fantasy XIVupcoming Endwalker the expansion, which launches this fall, has been completed by October 2019.

Final Fantasy XIV started at a rocky time when it was first released in 2010, but Square Enix’s decision to place Yoshida (then known primarily as a talented Dragon Quest X planner) in a leadership role led to the launch in 2013 of A reborn realm, a restart of the original game that served as the basis for all subsequent expansions.

It is largely assumed that Yoshida’s work returning the MMO earned him a role in producing the next single-player installment in the series, Final Fantasy XVI. But for now, he remains silent about what they have at their disposal to accidentally avoid raising or shattering the hopes of the various Final Fantasy fanbase.

“We do not want to say something half-ripe and provoking speculation [Final Fantasy XVI]”Yoshida said. “With anything Final Fantasy fan, depending on which Final Fantasy the title is your block, the point where you get excited will tend to differ ”.