Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood – you’ll be able to pay greater than the value of the sport to skip the story, enhance your stage

If you need to get into the Final Fantasy 14 Stormblood growth content material on day one however don’t have a level-appropriate character, you’ll be able to pay so much to get there.

With the discharge of Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood, Square Enix is giving gamers the choice to skip previous earlier content material and be prepared for launch day, solely the value to take action is steep.

As reported by Polygon, the sport gives three completely different boosts for actual cash. The first, a job enhance, is priced $25 and can enhance a single job to stage 60.

Then there are two story skips, the primary allows you to skip the primary quests of the unique recreation for $18, and one other for $25 that may skip these quests in addition to quests from the Heavensward growth. As the location factors out, reaching stage 60 gained’t be sufficient to achieve entry to Stormblood content material, so depedning on how a lot you performed (or didn’t play) of the primary recreation or Heavensward, chances are you’ll be seeking to pay a good chunk to skip that content material.

This is clearly isn’t an issue for avid gamers, however, for brand spanking new or lapsed gamers, you’re paying $50, plus the price of Stormblood itself ($40), and the precise month-to-month subscription of $13/month.

“The concept was that those two items [the level boost and the scenario shortcut] combined would equal to the cost of one full game,” Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida informed the location.

“We wanted to give the impression that it’s a little bit more pricey. We didn’t want people to freely obtain these items and just skip over content willy-nilly.”

Yoshida defined that pricing them cheaper than this could give the impression that they’re essential objects, to not point out the transfer would upset those that spent all that point grinding by means of the precise content material themselves.

Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood launches June 20 on PC, and PS4. Pre-orders achieve entry on June 16, which can also be when these boosts will first be obtainable.