The game was initially met with mixed-to-bad reactions from players and reviewers alike, citing numerous glitches and bugs, poorly implemented features and an unbalanced in-game economy as the game's main problems.

The cities thus banded together in an uneasy peace, forming the Adventurers' Guild to employ these new mercenaries and investigate the secrets behind the Empire's sudden invasion and retreat. The remaining four city-states- Limsa Lominsa, Ul'dah, Gridania and Ishgard- militarized to meet this threat, but before another shot was fired the Garleans mysteriously halted their advance, leaving the city-states with a large armed force and nothing to really fight against. Before the start of the game, the Dungeonpunk Garlean Empire had set to use their overwhelming military force to attempt to conquer Eorzea, starting with the city-state of Ala Mhigo. The game is set in the Eorzea region of the planet Hydaelyn. In both its 20 releases, it had both a Standard and a Collector's Edition, whose buyers were able to start the game 8 days early (in the 1.0 CE's case), get exclusive in-game items, a themed journal (in 1.0) or an artbook (2.0), and some other bells and whistles.

It is an MMORPG, similar to its online predecessor Final Fantasy XI, and was timed exclusively to the PC in its first release, and was a simultaneous PC & PS3 release in its second iteration (see below). Final Fantasy XIV is the fourteenth game in the groin-grab bingly popular Final Fantasy series.

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