Good god, someone has finally completed every Final Fantasy 14 achievement - and it only took them 10 years

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In an accomplishment that truly makes my head and mouse-clicking finger hurt thinking about the sheer time and effort required, someone has become the first Final Fantasy 14 player to complete every single one of the MMO’s more than 2,700 achievements.

The player on Japan’s Garuda server spotted by the Final Fantasy 14 subreddit (and confirmed by achievement-tracking sites Lalachievements and FFXIVcollect) scooped their final remaining in-game achievement on August 27th, bringing their grand total to 2,751 achievements. Somewhat hilariously, the last achievement they had left was The Man, the Myth, the Legend, a fairly easy level-50 quest completion trophy added in this spring's patch 6.48 that requires the player to simply speak with a few characters in Limsa Lominsa and Ul’dah. (Thanks, GamesRadar.)

To put into perspective just how wild this player’s many, many achievements are, obtaining every achievement in FF14 requires completing all five ultimate raids and all three Deep Dungeons solo, as well as finishing every Extreme trial and Savage raid as a Blue Mage.

That’s tricky enough from a challenge perspective, but it’s the time investment required for some of these achievements that’s truly staggering. Among those 2,700-plus achievements is the need to win at least 3,000 games in PVP mode Frontline and 5,000 victories in Crystalline Conflict or The Feast. That’s victories, not just played games - and you’re also relying on random strangers in many cases.

You’ll also need to complete every levequest, the repeatable side quests that characters can take on for extra experience and gil. While the quests themselves are fairly simple, players are limited to accepting three levequests every 12 hours, which - as