Sq. Enix held its Last Fantasy 14 Fan Pageant on Friday, exhibiting off what’s subsequent for the favored massively multiplayer on-line role-playing recreation. The ultimate large shock of the present was the reveal of a Nintendo Swap 2 model of Last Fantasy 14 that is coming in August.
FF14 on the Swap 2 marks the primary time the MMORPG, which launched in 2010, has made its solution to a Nintendo platform. Within the quick clip of the sport being performed on the Swap 2, it does look like a trustworthy port of the sport to Nintendo’s latest moveable console, however it’ll include an extra price to these FF14 gamers who need to play this latest model — and we do not understand how a lot it will be simply but.
Since FF14 is a subscription-based MMORPG, gamers want to purchase the sport in addition to pay for a month-to-month subscription. The subscription can run from $13 to $15 and will depend on the variety of characters a participant desires on their account.
The wrinkle for the Swap 2 model is that it’ll require its personal distinctive subscription. Because of this for these FF14 gamers already on different platforms, akin to PC, PlayStation, Xbox or Mac (all of which could be performed on the identical umbrella subscription), in the event that they need to additionally play on Nintendo’s handheld console, they must buy the Swap 2 model of the sport in addition to pay the additional month-to-month subscription price for that model. Cross-progression remains to be obtainable on the Swap 2 for FF14 gamers, which is able to enable them to make use of the identical character throughout all platforms.
Observe that this Nintendo-specific additional cost shouldn’t be associated to the Nintendo Swap On-line subscription, and gamers will not want the latter to play FF14 on a Swap 2.
It seems this extra subscription cost got here after “many months of dialogue with Nintendo,” the FF14 group stated on the pageant’s stream. To make up for this extra price gamers must take care of, Sq. Enix is making the primary month of FF14 on Swap 2 free. Those that do have an FF14 subscription on one other platform may even obtain a 50% low cost for the Swap 2 subscription.
Sq. Enix did not instantly reply to a request for affirmation of the Swap 2 model’s recreation and subscription pricing.
The opposite large information from the Last Fantasy 14 Fan Pageant was that of the subsequent growth for the sport. Evercold is ready to launch January 2027. The growth will embody two new jobs for characters to play as, the next stage cap of 110, new cities to discover and extra dungeons and raids to finish.
Additionally coming with the Evercold growth is a brand new raid sequence that may function a crossover with the anime sequence Neon Genesis Evangelion. A brief teaser of this raid sequence was proven, nevertheless it did not present any extra particulars about what it might encompass or what content material from the beloved, weird anime can be included.
Sq. Enix did not present a value for the Evercold growth, however expansions sometimes retail for $40.
