Due to several factors, the development was beset by problems that would later have drastic effects on the game. During development, the team carried over multiple aesthetic elements from Final Fantasy XI while attempting to create something that stood on its own. It ran on Square Enix's Crystal Tools middleware engine, which was adjusted to suit the game's specifications. The game had been in development since 2005 under the codename 'Rapture', and was announced in 2009 for Windows and the PlayStation 3 video game console.

Eventually, they were embroiled in a plot by a Garlean Legatus to destroy the primals by bringing one of the planet's moons down on Eorzea. Set in the fantasy realm of Eorzea, players took control of a customized avatar as they explore the land and were caught up in both an invasion by the hostile Garlean Empire and the threat of the primals, the deities of the land's beastmen tribes. It was the original version of the fourteenth entry in the main Final Fantasy series and the second MMORPG in the series after Final Fantasy XI. Massively multiplayer online role-playing gameįinal Fantasy XIV was a 2010 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows, developed and published by Square Enix.

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