Ultimate Fantasy 14 is immortalising its notorious grapes

If there’s one factor Ultimate Fantasy 14: Endwalker shall be remembered for, it will not be its wonderful conclusion to a decade-long story. Nor reputation so immense that Sq. Enix pulled the game from sale for six complete weeks to avoid wasting the already-buckling servers from folding totally. No, will probably be remembered for its lovely low-poly grapes that had been so rudely “fastened” after they took Eorzea by storm.

Memes across the grapes have persevered 18 months after the growth’s launch, and it even brought about director/producer Naoki Yoshida to go and high quality examine the grapes in Ultimate Fantasy 16 to verify they had been as much as snuff. Lengthy could the low-poly grapes stay on, particularly now Sq. Enix is immortalising them as a bodily goodie for the upcoming Ultimate Fantasy 14 Fan Competition in Las Vegas. 

Those that are attending the pageant shall be aware of some pretty Ultimate Fantasy 14-themed presents. There is a Tenth-anniversary crossbody bag, an lovable carrot-shaped pen topped with a loporrit, an Azem crystal keychain and a grebuloff magnet. Then, to prime all of it off, a “squishable Endwalker grapes” stress… prism of some form. “Relieve any lingering stress after hours of ‘farm events’ with these really exceptional squishable Endwalker grapes,” the merchandise’s description reads. “If you happen to’re ever feeling a bit low decision, merely seize your squishable grapes and keep in mind what as soon as was.”

I am actually feeling grape envy, and the entire plethora of loot is a beautiful bundle for the dwellers of Eorzea. It is a neat strategy to lean into one of many extra mainstream memes to have expanded past Ultimate Fantasy 14’s participant base, and will definitely turn out to be useful when one more Sage who retains forgetting to use shields joins the savage raid celebration. Positively not talking from expertise or something.

The Las Vegas Fan Competition kicks off subsequent month, and we’re certain to be in for a few massive bulletins whereas it is happening. If earlier expansions are something to go by then Endwalker is over midway by its life cycle now, and I can really feel in my bones {that a} new growth announcement is across the nook. Even outdoors of latest expansions, the game is celebrating its Tenth anniversary of the A Realm Reborn relaunch on the finish of August.