Final Fantasy XIV’s achievements aren’t any joke, as proved by the ten years it took the primary participant to earn each achievement within the MMO. But director and producer Naoki Yoshida is up for making much more tough achievements, if the achievement-hunting professional is recreation for the problem.
“First and foremost, I need to simply say, wow, huge congratulations,” Yoshida mentioned to the nameless Japanese participant throughout a press convention finally weekend’s Final Fantasy Fan Festival in London. “To see that participant simply keep it up – simply urgent on – as a creator of an MMO, that is a extremely improbable factor to see.”
The lalafell participant accomplished their quest to perform all 2,751 achievements in August, ending a decade-long enterprise that included successful hundreds of PVP battles, catching each fish, finishing 10,000 hunts, clearing each treasure dungeon at the very least 20 occasions and finishing each levequest – one thing estimated to take at the very least seven years of actual time because of the every day restrict on how most of the repeatable aspect quests you possibly can flip in.
Needless to say, it’s not like Final Fantasy XIV’s achievements had been a stroll within the park to start with. But Yoshi-P promised that the sport’s builders would assume up much more hardcore challenges if the participant who has already overcome each problem set up to now is on the lookout for a harder process.
“Of course, we are going to proceed to make achievements within the recreation,” he mentioned. “But whether or not we create an achievement which might be the next problem, that every one boils right down to this sure participant.
“If they’re requesting it, then after all, we might be glad to do it. In that case, simply drop us a message on the boards. If you do ship us the message, I belief you. We will hold our promise.”
Either method, gamers gained’t have to attend that lengthy for some new achievements to pursue, with XIV at present seeing a sequence of latest dungeons and quests added within the run-up to subsequent summer time’s Dawntrail growth. Yoshi-P and the workforce have already got plans for the following two huge expansions after that, too.
