Subj : Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrails release date hasnt been announced be
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Date : Mon Jan 08 2024 10:45:05

Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrails release date hasnt been announced because the 
director doesnt want to delay it

Date:
Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:30:43 +0000

Description:
Final Fantasy 14's producer and director, Naoki Yoshida, has explained why 
he's not announced Dawntrail's release date.

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The director and producer of Final Fantasy 14 , Naoki Yoshida (also known as 
Yoshi-P), has revealed that hes not announcing the exact release date for the 
Dawntrail expansion right now, since he doesnt want it to get delayed like 
Endwalker previously did. 

Yoshida said this during Final Fantasy 14 Fanfest 2024 , which took place 
over the weekend in Tokyo. In his keynote, the director acknowledged that 
given the special occasion, fans were probably expecting us to announce the 
release date of Dawntrail . However, despite the expansion having an 
announced release window of summer 2024, and the team already targeting an 
internal date, he reiterated that this wasnt being publicly revealed just 
yet. 

"Unfortunately, though we do have an internal date that we are targeting, we 
are adjusting the schedule, making sure it's fine-tuned as much as it 
possibly can be before announcing, so we will not be sharing that today, he 
said. 

"If you're wondering why, well, it's because as you know, for Endwalker , for 
the very first time in my career we had to delay the release, he continued. 
We don't want that to happen again, even if it's just a few weeks, so we are 
taking great care to make sure that our schedule is on track before 
announcing, but we will get you that info as soon as we can. 

The previously delayed Endwalker expansion launched on December 7, 2021 - two 
weeks after it was originally supposed to. In a news post revealed at the 
time, Yoshida apologized for the delay, and stated: The biggest factor behind 
the release date change was my own selfishness as the games director. He 
explained that after playing through the expansion, I just couldnt contain my 
desire to further improve Endwalker s quality. 

Back to Dawntrail though, and Yoshida reassured fans that the upcoming 
expansion is still very much on track to release within the summer 2024 
window. 

People are saying, you mean October then? Its not going to be summer, its 
going to be October, isnt it? No, no, it will be summer, he said. Laughing, 
he added that we will not be releasing on Square Enix time, we will be 
releasing on [ Final Fantasy ] 14 time, which means properly in summer. 

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/consoles-pc/final-fantasy-14-dawntrails-relea
se-date-hasnt-been-announced-because-the-director-doesnt-want-to-delay-it


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