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Final Fantasy 14′s Next Expansion Will Feature A Crossover With Final Fantasy 7 So Of Course Fans Are Gonna Fight About It
The conclusion of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest in Berlin brought with it a lot of new updates for Evercold, the game’s upcoming expansion due in January of next year. We got new information on one of the expansion’s two new classes, more details on the story and tweaks to the game’s battle and questing systems, and all the ways players will be able to customize their characters because of course, glamour is the endgame. And one particular announcement—that Evercold‘s raid series will be a crossover with Final Fantasy VII Remake—has the fandom up in arms.
Presenting a FINAL FANTASY XIV x FINAL FANTASY VII Remake crossover: Beyond the Lifestream—the Evercold raid series developed in collaboration with @finalfantasyvii! pic.twitter.com/wzkPKFpQky
On the one hand, I get it. Final Fantasy fans have been inundated with this one iteration of Square Enix’s storied franchise for decades now, even before the remake trilogy kicked off back in 2020. And as exciting as that remake trilogy is, I’m kinda tired of seeing Cloud’s ass, too. If I played Final Fantasy XIV to get away from all that, I’d be pissed like some fans are.
Having both raid series be crossovers is very overkill. Why must i go and watch a boring anime and a play 3 new RPG games costing upwards of £150 total to understand the raids in my MMO?
I hope the expansion after Evercold has 2 original raid series to make up for this!
— 「 Xavier Maganti 」 (@JamieCharlesEl1) July 25, 2026
Collabing on BOTH raid types right at the start of what is supposed to be a new storyline is definitely a choice What a wasted opportunity to start adding new lore pic.twitter.com/m2gXqK8WPq
— 🗡️🐍RedPanda 🇪🇭 🇵🇸 (@Surgiote) July 25, 2026
People are saying folks who don't dig this should shut up because XIV is full of references, but no other game in this franchise is pushed remotely as much as VII is. It's reasonable for some people to not be hyped for more.
And man… not everything has to be an argument. It's just opinions.