Square Enix delays FFXIV Evercold four weeks, moves launch to Feb 23, 2027
At the Tokyo Fan Fest keynote, Square Enix pushed the sixth FFXIV expansion back and revealed the Zephyr job, new areas, and version 8.0 details.
What to know
- Evercold's launch slips about four weeks from January 2027 to February 23, 2027, with early access February 19 for preorder customers.
- The delay was announced at the Tokyo Fan Fest keynote alongside the full opening cinematic and new job Zephyr, a crossbow DPS with an avian companion.
- Version 8.0 brings a level cap increase to 110, a new Evolved Mode battle system, Auto Content Balancing, and crossover raids with Evangelion and Final Fantasy VII.
- Preorders open November 4, 2026, with Collector's Bundle items revealed.
Naoki Yoshida FFXIV director and producerSquare Enix Publisher and developer of Final Fantasy XIV
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Evercold preorders open with bonus items — Preorders for Evercold open November 4, 2026, bundling the Collector's items (art box, Reaper figure, keychain, plush, tapestry) and digital rewards including the Crystal Skyltborg weapon, Vallhallar Odin mount, and Entreat Crystal emote.
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FullCleared says the delay is minor given 8.0's scope — A FullCleared writeup argues the four-week slip is not a major concern considering how much is changing under the hood with the version 8.0 overhaul.
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Keynote reveals Zephyr job, new realm, and 8.0 overhaul
The Tokyo keynote also unveiled Zephyr, a crossbow-wielding ranged DPS job with an avian companion, the new Realmship area Sessrymnir, crossover raids with Neon Genesis Evangelion and Final Fantasy VII, a raised level cap of 110, and the new Evolved Mode battle system alongside the unchanged Reborn Mode.
“FFXIV Evercold Gets a Date, Reveals Crossbow Job Zephyr…”
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That's because a large percentage of the players will judge an entire expansion based almost entirely on the quality of its story. Which is entitely fair. XIV is pretty much the most story focused MMO out there and there appears to be a large amount of players who play it mostly for the story. Of course it would be better for people to be more…
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Final Fantasy XIV Evercold delayed to February 23rd (early access February 19th for pre-orders) https://www. resetera.com/threads/1675346 # gaming # videogames # resetera
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Ugh what a terrible comparison. Here it's a very valid question because there are quite a few areas of content in the game where there is an expectation of having some level of preparation and past experience with how to handle content and thus where the presence of someone who has no idea what's going on is wasting 7 other people's time. If OP…
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Square Enix delays Evercold to February 23, 2027 — At the Fan Festival 2026 keynote in Tokyo, director and producer Naoki Yoshida unveiled the full opening cinematic and confirmed the sixth expansion now launches February 23, 2027, with early access on February 19 for preorder customers — about a four-week delay from the original window.
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Berlin Fan Fest shows extended teaser and Bastion tank job — A later European leg of Fan Fest in Berlin revealed an extended teaser trailer, the dual-greatshield tank job Bastion, and the Evercold Collector's Bundle contents.
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Square Enix reveals FFXIV Evercold, targets January 2027 — Evercold was first announced during the North American FFXIV Fan Fest in Anaheim, with an initial launch window of January 2027.
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What people are saying 21 voices from 1 site · best of 42 · verbatim
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the main point of FFXIV is to be a GAME. Player enjoyment matters more than anything else. that enjoyment can stim from a good story but if to get to that good story requires a slog of lots of terrible things dragging the game down, im sorry but your game is a failure. FFXIV is perfectly capable of redesigning the game so it isnt a "walk between…
- Nov 1
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That’s great to hear I’ve taken off this game for a year now. Coming home and getting just felt like a chore; doing roulettes, grinding to reach the weekly cap of tomes
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Listing games that do not have raids, or added them years in for a specific demand of the playerbase, is not arguing the point. No shit a game with no raid, will have less focus on raids. But as far as the major MMOs go, ffxiv is second only to maybe SWTOR for story focused gameplay and world design.
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Blizzard has been doing that more and more with retail WoW it's very strange. Their WoW Forever that's about to release is supposed to roll back practically all of those changes that made it less like an MMO and people are losing their minds in excitement possibly moreso after the beta ran for a good while.
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That's 'cause the trailer doesn't do a whole lot to establish the story of the expansion itself. The initial few moments are deeply related to the main story quest's most recent quests, and beyond that all it shows is a grandma talking to an excitable kid about the legend of your character doing something incredible for their world. Which doesn't…
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That's still wild even for WoW considering the uncountably vast story beyond the plot surrounding Arthas. And it had plenty of good stories after, and plenty of flawed ones too.
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Even 5 years ago I wouldn't say that's remotely the case with FFXIV. The whole reason they're introducing a new raid tier is because such a tiny minority ever touch savage raids. Most players would tell you the end game is anything from one of 50 different things between crafting, housing, glams, hunts, treasure maps, PvP, etc. and that's all…
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And i’m one of those who primarily does stuff for content and the people I do it with is secondary, tho still important when i do high-end content where you need a premade group. I’m sorry that your community fallen out :( I used to have the same guild for 6 years and it really hurt when everyone left for good (I just always take breaks from…
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Nah, Downtrail just sucked and the lack of content for Endwalker didn't make it any better. Let's not pretend FF14 didn't have a shit 4 years of content. Dawntrail did better on the content, but the story was such ass.
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Idk if you're talking about pre-lv15, where you're in an instanced version of the city with no one else in it, but in my experience it was the opposite- impossible to get through limsa without hearing at least 2-3 catgirl brothel macro on shout chat, or someone's 30 failed attempts at overmelding materia on white chat.
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Endwalker, storywise, has some horrid horrid pacing issues in the sense that it was just. So. Damn. LONG. Everything took so LONG to happen. They did tell us, at the time, that two planned expansions' worth of story had been condensed into one, but that didn't help soften the blow much. Still, the story that was there was magnificient , with very…
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I always say, if you don't like the base experience, you won't like the rest. Like obviously the story gets better, but the format itself has barely changed at all. The storytelling is almost identical.
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yes but it’s totally worth i promise, it’s just the original game is extremely badly pased, but even first expansion is already miles better when i first started i dropped after finishing original game story but then returned, pushed through, watched a recap and it was worth it starting the first expansion (or patch before it, the story goes WILD)
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They could drop it literally anytime and one could strawman about any other game releasing at the same time. It honestly seems like you’re bean souping about a game you don’t even sound interested in.
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Dawntrail’s story sucked but the battle design has a really strong direction. Evercold is currently showing signs of life as far as story goes, so it’s worth paying attention to
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Ooooor.. The expac will be good enough that it'll bully its way at the forefront, who knows. Wait, you think this is going to be bigger than gow or fable?? Hahahahahahaha XIV is a game with not even a million people playing right now. Ragnarok alone outsold pretty much every piece of XIV content by huge margins. There's a decent chance P4 remake…
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They've done a bad job keeping it steady considering up to Shadowbringers the gap was 2 years and starting from Endwalker it became 2.5 years with no real extra content (and this time also with two extra months of waiting). At least Endwalker had a COVID excuse, the following expansions just take longer to release.
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I left at the end of Endwalker. Shadowbringers and Endwalker are probably the best expansions I played in an MMORPG. Heard from my friends Dawntrail was quite disappointing but I do not think it was ever easy to replace such two strong expansions back-to-back. Not sure I’ll come back though. Still do not feel that itch.
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Ooooor.. The expac will be good enough that it'll bully its way at the forefront, who knows. They have to release it at some point, and they couldn't make the date they wanted the way they wanted, so it is what it is. Worrying about release windows on behalf of the corporation is frankly weird
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Yeah and as a FFXIV player like, we're just gonna prioritize getting through the MSQ anyway. A lot of more casual players will likely get all they need done in a month then swap back over to whatever else comes out in Feb. I'm a raider so I gotta be sweaty with the leveling and prepping for the raid tier that month haha
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Some companies prefer to try to grow their games instead of remaining stagnant or slowly declining. And you can't do that when you release in between a bunch of bigger games.