Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood

... a Shinryu mount, though.

Not like the dog that you get in Stormblood from the trial, though, but, like, the actual Shinryu or something.

Oh, that'd be sick.

And it, you know, it plays the music.

Uh, Koji says he appreciates everyone who comes up to him at events who thank him for particular jokes and quest translations in the game, but he wants everyone to understand that he has a whole team under him that, uh, he works alongside.

There is more than two Bibles worth of text in the game as of Dawntrail.

Uh, were he working alone, we would still be back [laughs] in Stormblood.

He has-

Whoa

... which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn, the award-winning Stormblood, and the big expansion Shadowbringers up to level 80 for free with no restrictions on play time.

Thank you UserKoopa1997 for that modified-

Oh my-

Uh, always been Bard.

I've got up to, I believe, Stormblood, so, uh-

Oh, awesome

...

Gosetsu, Gaia, Rean, and of course side Scions like Hori Boulder as well.

Not since Stormblood or Heavensward, if you want to be very pedantic, has very few Scions made a major presence in a trailer.

I'm hedging my bet the final part because of the increase of budget.

We'll see a side character joining as full cast in the final part of the Evercold trailer.

To tell

your players at the beginning, look what we're willing to do to progress the story of this game, and then immediately backtracking on it and making it have no consequences.

Yeah, I think also, like, for people that have joined after A Realm Reborn, you know, people that joined in Stormblood and beyond, will never really appreciate, like... how basic A Realm Reborn's cutscenes were up until that patch, because that was a like cinematic event.

I remember I watched it on my own and then I remember Lonegan called, I think he called me or he texted me or something.

You know, like you have to be there to see everything happen.

And I kind of like that in Realm Reborn, Heaven's Word, Stormblood.

there's a little bit more of like, there's a lot of things at work and you're, you're showing up for the big dramatic moment, but you don't have to be there for like everything that is important for that character happening at once.

Uh, I, I still, one of my favorite moments in all 14 is after you finished the Garuda fight, I think, and you go back to the, the Scions headquarters and you're like realizing what has happened while you were gone.

okay with how abrupt it was, because...

Instead of having the build-up that we did for Heavensward, where you go to Coerthas and you have to work your way to Ishgard, or Stormblood, where you have to clear Balzer's Wall at the end of the Heavensward patches to get into Stormblood.

It was literally, hey, go through this thing.

Now you're in the fourth.

It was overly done and then they fine tuned it.

Heavensward was a little bit.

I think it started with Stormblood and just continuously got better.

I feel like Heavensward being as over the top as it was.

When you said, like, oh, you can hop it, but you also get WoW Classic.

Say, for example, if I buy Dawn Trail, I get Endwalker with Dawn Trail, right? I don't have to buy Stormblood.

But that's the case with WoW.

No, no. It's a separate game.

[laughs]

But, uh, I, I think it'd be fun to like, yeah, retroactively look at Heavensward, uh, you know, Stormblood, probably even Shadowbringers, I think.

Those, those, they're both old enough now, I think-

Oh

You know?

Yeah.

Was there stuff about that that, you know, maybe it was over-hyped, and things like, was Stormblood actually as bad as people-

That's what I'm interested in, 'cause I remember-

So Alex, really quick update then.

Where is Allie in the story right now? Has she made it into Shadowbringers? I think she's in Stormblood, right? No, no, no, she's in

Stormblood.

She didn't play at all yesterday.

Oh, okay, okay.