FINAL FANTASY XIV INITIAL RELEASE DATE PATCH

Yoshida published an updated roadmap for the beta test through launch, indicating four phases of beta beginning in mid-February 2013.

The alpha test for A Realm Reborn began shortly after the original release's finale and ended in late December 2012.

Testing phases, announcements, and game releases followed a series of events, chronologically: This date served as the 'grand finale' for the old game, culminating in a cinematic trailer for A Realm Reborn called 'End of an Era'.

In July 2012, Square Enix revealed that Version 2.0's official title would be Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Thus, Wada and Yoshida announced the brand new version of Final Fantasy XIV in October 2011, code-named 'Version 2.0', which had been in development since January, along with a tentative roadmap for future progress for both PC and PlayStation 3. On the anniversary of the game's release, Yoichi Wada claimed that the initial launch of Final Fantasy XIV had 'greatly damaged' the Final Fantasy brand. Yoshida and his team made major changes to the battle system, implemented auto-attack and instanced dungeons, removed the controversial 'fatigue' system, and introduced of the Grand Company storyline which would supersede the original main scenario questline.

FINAL FANTASY XIV INITIAL RELEASE DATE PATCH

FFXIV: A Realm Reborn development planning started from scratch in January, 2011 вЂ“ almost two years before the original game was closed (November 11, 2012) due to ' flawed release and poor reception' вЂ“ and saw fruition with patch 1.18 in July 2011.

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