Ten years ago, in a cataclysmic rain of flaring energy, Final Fantasy XIV died. Thats both true in the sense that the land of Eorzea was raked with the almighty megaflare of one of Final Fantasys most powerful beings, the dragon Bahamut, and that developer Square Enix shut down the servers of its troubled MMORPG for good.
The launch of Final Fantasy XIV had been an unmitigated disaster, and nearly cratered the studio behind it in the process. But even as players gathered in cities and fields to gaze up at the sky awaiting Bahamuts reckoning, plans were underway to rehaul the MMORPG entirely, relaunching it as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborna game with the complete opposite story of the original XIV. It was a wild success that is still going strong to this day, and likely for the foreseeable future.