Naoki Yoshida and his talented team at Square Enix were thrust into an impossible situation and made the most of it, salvaging a title on the precipice of annihilation and turning things around in a way that still feels unprecedented to this day. With A Realm Reborn, the once doomed project was transformed into an MMORPG that would go on to attract millions of players around the globe and produce expansions that many regard as among the finest JRPG stories ever told.
Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn celebrates its eighth birthday today, meaning it has been almost a decade since Final Fantasy 14 rose from the ashes of failure.
