Final Fantasy 14’s newest expansion name almost broke the series’ 12-year tradition as Yoshi-P ‘really wanted’ his original idea
Final Fantasy 14’s upcoming expansion, Evercold, maintains the MMORPG’s 12-year naming tradition of using compound words for expansion titles. The game’s director and producer Naoki Yoshida (known as “Yoshi-P”) revealed during a Q&A at the North American Fan Festival in April that he had considered breaking this established pattern with alternative names for the new expansion.
Since its first major expansion in 2013, Final Fantasy 14 has consistently used compound word titles: Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, Dawntrail, and now Evercold. Despite Yoshida’s apparent desire to move away from this naming convention, the decision was ultimately made to continue the tradition. While the article excerpt doesn’t provide specific details about the rejected alternative names, it indicates that Yoshida had genuinely wanted to pursue a different direction for the expansion’s naming.