The director and producer of Final fantasy 14Naoki Yoshida (aka Yoshi-P), has revealed that he has the exact release date for the Dawn trail expansion at this time because he does not want it to be postponed End runner did before.
Yoshida said this during Final fantasy 14 Fanfest 2024, which took place in Tokyo this weekend. In his keynote, the director acknowledged that given the special occasion, fans were “probably expecting us to postpone the release date of Dawn trail.” Despite the expansion having an announced release date of summer 2024 and the team already targeting an internal date, he reiterated that this has not yet been publicly revealed.
“Unfortunately, while we have an internal date that we're targeting, we're adjusting the schedule and making sure it's as aligned as possible before announcing it, so we won't be sharing that today,” he said.
'If you're wondering why, well, it's because, as you know, for End runnerFor the very first time in my career, we had to postpone the release,” he continued. “We don't want this to happen again, even if it's just a few weeks away, so we're doing everything we can to make sure our schedule is on track before we announce it, but we'll get you that information as soon as possible deliver. ”
The previously postponed one End runner expansion launched on December 7, 2021 – two weeks after it was originally intended. In a news item When revealed at the time, Yoshida apologized for the delay, stating, “The biggest factor behind the release date change was my own selfishness as the game's director.” He explained that after playing the expansion, “I just couldn't contain my desire to improve further End runnerthe quality.”
Back to Dawn trail However, Yoshida assured fans that the upcoming expansion is still on track to release within the summer 2024 window.
“People say: 'You mean October? It won't be summer, it'll be October, right?' No, no, it's summer,” he said. Laughing, he added that “we won't be releasing on Square Enix time, we'll be releasing on (Final fantasy) 14 time, that is, in the summer.”
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