Available to all Standard Edition owners for a limited time
From now until May 8th, Square Enix are giving awayFinal Fantasy 14’sStormblood expansion for free to all new and existing owners of the MMORPG’s Standard Edition. The offer ends at 7am PDT/ 3pm BST, so you still have over a month to grab and keep the second expansion on Steam, the PlayStation store, or any other storefront that’s participating in the promotion. Squeenix have anFAQ pagefor more information, too.
Final Fantasy14’s Standard Edition is currently £9.99 onSteam, and it comes with A Realm Reborn and the game’s first expansion Heavensword. Claiming Stormblood will increase your level cap from 60 to 70, along with all of the other fab additions, of course. You’ll be getting more dungeons, side quests, two new DPS jobs - red mage and samurai - and the eight-player raid Omega. It’s not as universally beloved as some of FF14’s later expansions, but for free, you can’t really complain. It’s not making the game any worse, right?
That temporary break from stores was due to the game’s last expansion, the critically acclaimed Endwalker. Danielle Lucas hadgreat things to sayabout Endwalker’s story, which concluded a decade-long journey chronicling the beef between two gods. Danielle said Endwalker “neatly brings in a lot of plot points and characters all the way back from A Realm Reborn… there are certain story beats that had me physically pointing and gasping.”
While you’re in the Chocobo-riding, cat-people-loving, moogling mood, check out the best thing about the game: the mouth-wateringsteamed bun animations. FF14 alsorestored Ed’s faith in humanity, although I think that’s unrelated to the aforementioned buns. Or maybe the food animations are just that sublime?
