

The Stormblood and Shadowbringers expansions are off-limits, as is the upcoming Endwalker expansion. That should be high enough to get through the main game as well as the Heavensward expansion - which is convenient, because that’s all the content you’ll have access to. First and foremost, once your character hits level 60, you won’t gain any more experience. However, while the FFXIV free trial gives you access to most of what you’d get with a paid subscription, there are still a few areas in which you’ll face limitations. If you’ve played an online game sometime in the last two decades, you should feel right at home after a quest or two. Likewise, because the game is extremely story-driven (especially by MMO standards), there’s the game will show you exactly how to advance the narrative and explore the world. You’ll have to choose a server, pick a class, design your character and so forth, but the game itself does a good job of walking you through this process. As for FF4, 5 and 6, they'll be arriving at a later, currently unknown date.Once the game finishes installing, you can jump right in. Going by each of the Pixel Remaster Steam pages, FF1, 2 and 3 will all launch on July 28th at 5pm BST (that's 9am Pacific). You'll be able to buy each of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters individually, or splash out and buy (seriously, don't), the entire Final Fantasy 1-6 Pixel Remaster bundle for a whopping £55/$80/€70. FF1 and 2 aren't on Steam yet anyway, while the current versions of 3 and 4 are the much lovelier Nintendo DS ports, which weren't hounded for being horrid, so Squeenix have clearly deemed them worthy enough to stick around. It's worth noting that only FF5 and 6 have been marked for death at the moment, which makes sense. When Katharine and Brendan ranked the best Final Fantasy games on PC, Brendan called FF6's port "horrible-looking", while Katharine wasn't a fan of its "ickily prettified sprites and nasty fonts".


Squeenix made a bunch of ugly versions of classic Final Fantasy games for mobile, which then they brought to PC. I'm not that picky when it comes to this stuff, but yeah, it's an interesting design choice, to say the least. Each of these remasters has a rearranged soundtrack, new pixel art, and updated menus, although it looks like people aren't too happy with the reworked fonts.
