As Heavensturn arrives and the calendar flips to 2026, Final Fantasy 14 is gearing up for its next expansion. There’s been no end of speculation and theorizing about what the FF14 8.0 update might look like, with the recent (and rather fantastic) patch 7.4 offering some very tantalizing hints but little in the way of concrete answers. Will we even see it before the end of the year? Based on game director Naoki Yoshida’s New Year’s Greetings, it sounds like there’s more of a chance of that than we might have thought.

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 Naoki Yoshida’s New Year message offers some sly hints towards the FF14 8.0 expansion and “an especially significant” step for the MMORPG.  PCGamesN