
Through the gods' blessing, the player character escapes the devastation by time traveling five years into the future. At the conclusion of the original game, the primal dragon Bahamut escapes from its lunar prison to initiate the Seventh Umbral Calamity, an apocalyptic event which destroys much of Eorzea. Final Fantasy XIV takes place in the fictional land of Eorzea, five years after the events of the original 2010 release.


Directed and produced by Naoki Yoshida, it was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3 in August 2013, as a replacement for the failed 2010 version of the game, with support for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and macOS releasing later. Square Enix says owners of A Realm Reborn and the Starter Edition will have their games’ content updated to include this free content as well, in case anyone was worried they’d be left out of the newly expanded free trial content.īeing that it’s still a free trial for a game with a premium subscription, there are limits on what you can do gratis in Final Fantasy XIV – joining Free Companies, forming parties, and using the auction house are all activities reserved for paying customers.Final Fantasy XIV is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Square Enix.

You’d have needed to own the expansion to see this content before now. The free trial will include everything mentioned above, which includes the jobs and playable Au Ra introduced in Heavensward. That’s a staggering amount of content in a free trial for one of the best MMOs on the market. Soon, players jumping into Square Enix’s massive MMORPG will be able to raise characters up to level 60 and play all story content through Heavensward, as well as some of the expansions that have launched in patches up to 3.56. Final Fantasy XIV is dramatically expanding the scope of its free trial.
