Final Fantasy XIV
2013 video game
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| March 27 2024 | Released 'Growing Light', an album featuring songs from Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker expansion patches 6.0 through 6.5. |
| September 15 2021 | Released an album of songs from Patch 5.1 through 5.55, titled 'Death Unto Dawn'. |
| September 15 2021 | An album featuring musical compositions from Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.1 through 5.55 was released, further expanding the game's musical anthology. |
| April 2021 | Final Fantasy XIV reached over 22 million registered players, marking a significant turnaround from its initial troubled launch. |
| September 30 2020 | Released 'Pulse: Final Fantasy XIV Remix Album', a fourteen-track electronic remix album featuring tracks from A Realm Reborn, Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers expansions, remixed by Takafumi Imamura, Daiki Ishikawa, and Masayoshi Soken. |
| September 11 2019 | Released an album of songs from Patch 4.4 through Patch 5.05, covering the Shadowbringers expansion. |
| June 19 2019 | Released Journeys: Final Fantasy XIV Arrangement Album, an album of arranged songs from Heavensward and Stormblood expansions, featuring piano and rock arrangements. The album was praised by Tien Hoang of VGMOnline as the best piano/rock arrangement album to date. |
| March 6 2019 | Released Piano Collections Final Fantasy XIV, a 17-track album featuring piano renditions of songs from the game's soundtrack, which was reviewed positively by Tien Hoang of VGMOnline. |
| August 2018 | Eorzean Symphony concert series performed in Dortmund, Germany. |
| July 4 2018 | Release of the Stormblood soundtrack album, a 105-track Blu-ray album covering music from Patch 4.0 through Patch 4.3. The album was reviewed by Tien Hoang of VGMOnline, who praised its quality and emotional impact while noting it was less focused compared to the Heavensward expansion's album. |
| June 2018 | Continued the Eorzean Symphony concert series with a performance in Los Angeles. |
| May 16 2018 | The Primals, a rock arrangement album by composer Masayoshi Soken, was released. The album features arrangements from previous albums From Astral to Umbral and Duality, along with additional tracks from the Heavensward patches. |
| December 20 2017 | An album containing music from the Tokyo Eorzean Symphony concerts was released, selling over 13,100 copies. The album was available in Blu-ray (sixteen tracks with concert video) and CD (eight tracks) formats. |
| September 2017 | Launched the Eorzean Symphony concert series with a three-night set of concerts in Tokyo performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Hirofumi Kurita. |
| September 20 2017 | Released Final Fantasy XIV Orchestral Arrangement Album, an eight-track orchestral album performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring arrangements by Sachiko Miyana, Yoshitaka Suzuki, Kenichi Kuroda, Takahiro Tsuji, and Shota Nakama. |
| June 7 2017 | Soundtrack album for Final Fantasy XIV Patches 3.2-3.5 was released, selling over 8,900 copies and receiving a mixed review from Tien Hoang of VGMOnline who noted the album contained great tracks but was also repetitive. |
| December 7 2016 | Square Enix published Final Fantasy XIV: Duality ~Arrangement Album~, a Blu-ray album featuring rock and piano arrangements of music from Heavensward, created by Soken, GUNN, and Keiko. |
| February 24 2016 | Heavensward: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack officially released by Square Enix on Blu-ray, containing 58 total tracks composed primarily by Masayoshi Soken, with contributions from Yukiko Takada and Nobuo Uematsu |
| September 2015 | First volume of Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward -EP- series released, beginning the gradual release of music tracks from the Heavensward expansion soundtrack |
| August 26 2015 | Square Enix released the 'Before the Fall: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack' on Blu-ray, featuring music from game patches 2.2 through 2.5, including compositions by Soken, Nobuo Uematsu, Naoshi Mizuta, and Ryo Yamazaki. |
| 2014 | Masayoshi Soken completed composing, compiling, and remixing all of the game's music, including traditional Final Fantasy themes and sound effects, in just eight months. |
| December 17 2014 | Square Enix published 'Final Fantasy XIV: From Astral to Umbral - Band & Piano Arrangement Album', a Blu-ray featuring rock and piano arrangements of music from A Realm Reborn by Soken, GUNN, Keiko, and Nobuko Toda. The album includes six piano covers by Keiko and six rock covers by The Primals, along with original tracks and in-game scene videos. |
| March 21 2014 | Square Enix released the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Original Soundtrack on Blu-ray Disc, featuring 119 tracks composed by Nobuo Uematsu, Masayoshi Soken, Naoshi Mizuta, and Tsuyoshi Sekito. The soundtrack included tracks from the game's initial launch and the 2.1 patch, A Realm Awoken. |
| 2013 | The soundtrack won Video Game Music Online's Annual Game Music Awards in the Eastern category. |
| 2013 | Dream Music Factory published piano-arranged sheet music titled Before Meteor: Final Fantasy XIV Piano Solo Sheet Music. |
| 2013 | Rebooted version of the game, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, is released to positive critical and player reception. |
| August 14 2013 | Before Meteor: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack, a Blu-ray Disc album featuring all music from the original version of the game, is released two weeks before the game's relaunch. |
| November 11 2012 | The original version of Final Fantasy XIV was shut down, with its servers being closed. |
| November 1 2012 | The final revision of Final Fantasy XIV was released, preparing for the game's complete reboot. |
| September 1 2012 | A full album, Final Fantasy XIV - Eorzean Frontiers, was released as a single album and three mini-albums. |
| 2011 | At the Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada publicly apologizes for the poor quality of Final Fantasy XIV, acknowledging significant damage to the Final Fantasy brand. |
| 2011 | Final Fantasy XIV and XI were temporarily taken offline to help with energy conservation following the Japan earthquake and tsunami, returning online one week later. |
| April 2011 | Development begins on a complete rebuild of Final Fantasy XIV, initially titled Final Fantasy XIV 2.0, with the goal of completely reconstructing the game from the ground up. |
| 2010 | Dream Music Factory published an 88-page book of piano arrangements titled Final Fantasy XIV Piano Solo Sheet Music, containing tracks from the game's soundtrack. |
| 2010 | PS3 version of the game was indefinitely delayed from its original March 2011 release date, with Square Enix committing to not release the game until it met quality standards. |
| December 2010 | Hiromichi Tanaka and Koichi Komoto were removed from their positions as producer and director of Final Fantasy XIV, with Tanaka taking full responsibility for the game's poor launch and critical reception. |
| November 6 2010 | Four tracks from Final Fantasy XIV were performed at the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy Returning Home concert in Tokyo, Japan, including 'Navigator's Glory', 'Twilight Over Thanalan', 'Primal Judgement', and an orchestral rendition of 'Answers' with vocals by Susan Calloway. |
| September 2010 | The 'Field Tracks' mini-album contained eight tracks, primarily showcasing main themes for the game's three countries: Ul'dah, Gridania, and Limsa Lominsa. |
| September 30 2010 | Final Fantasy XIV was officially released for Windows, six months ahead of the originally projected PS3 version release date, with text available in Japanese, English, French, and German, and English dialogue in all cutscenes. |
| September 29 2010 | Two mini-albums, Final Fantasy XIV: Battle Tracks and Final Fantasy XIV: Field Tracks, were released featuring the game's music. |
| September 22 2010 | Collector's Edition was released, featuring artwork from Amano and Yoshida, and allowing owners to log into the game early. |
| September 2 2010 | Open Beta test launched after being previously postponed, running until the game's full release. |
| March 11 2010 | The game's first closed Alpha test began, exclusively available to veteran players from Final Fantasy XI. |
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