Final Fantasy 14 Fan Creates Game-Inspired Map of Oceania To Celebrate New Datacenter Launch
Final Fantasy 14 released its latest patch today, billed as a balancing patch that brought sweeping changes and numerical adjustments to the game's combat jobs. However, spurred by Final Fantasy 14's growth since Shadowbringers, and to alleviate the inconvenience of Oceania fans playing on European, American, or Japanese regions, Square Enix has introduced the new Oceania-based data center.
Bearing the name «Materia,» this new data center holds five new worlds for players to choose from: Bismarck, Ravana, Sephiroth, Sophia, and Zurvan. Curiously, the majority of the worlds are named after the deities (and primals introduced in Heavensward) of the Meracydian continent. For those familiar with the geography of Final Fantasy 14, Meracydia's status as the land down under makes this an inspired choice.
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A talented fan in the Final Fantasy 14 community with the name Scion-7-Dawn showed their own appreciation for bringing Materia into the fold by drawing the region of Oceania as a map inspired by the game's art style. The map features Australia and New Zealand – with all its major landmarks such as Uluru faithfully depicted as hypothetical areas in the game.
Some Oceanian players have reacted to the post with friendly banter, pointing out the accidental absurdity of Australia's capital of Canberra being depicted as a small, random place such as Xelphatol, with New Zealand's Wellington bearing the same fate. There has been a recent trend of fans recreating real world locations using a game's particular art style, such as one World of Warcraft fan drawing the American states.
Overall, the launch of Oceanian servers has been met with resounding relief and
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