The Fall & Rise of FFXIV | Episode Ten | Growing Pains

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn's 3rd content patch introduced a lot of new content and fixes, but the community is facing another big issue - Eorzea is running out of housing.
In the middle of a looming housing crisis, A Realm Reborn is approaching its first anniversary - and for the first time fans finally get to gather for the first ever Fan Fests.
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[@happydrew8587]

"Can a Realm Reborn's story line end in a satisfying way?" Oh boy I can't wait for the next episode haha.

[@itssovalentine]

@@Skitz470 Hey, he's still got 9 hours

[@Techstriker1]

Welp, we got our answer before the next episode apparently.

[@Eliwood407]

The heavensward trailer still gives me an incredible amount of chills..

[@john_7000]

Me 2 😍😍😍😍 I still love heavensward the most don't get me wrong I love stormblood and shadowbringers which it phenomenal I love it too, but there is something special about heavensward that makes me love it the most and no not dragons I actually wasn't a big fan of dragons before, oh yeah sir aymeric ❤️❤️ and of course the storytelling

[@Bedrick]

It's the best trailer imo. It's so good

[@Pellaaearien]

I'm that person yelling HOLY SHIT at the gauntlet animation

[@kluafoz]

What happened to this series? I was binge watching this like an new found old classic on Netflix and then it ended :(

[@RegalPixelKing]

Although the series ended two years ago, and although I would enjoy more episodes, we don't really need future episodes. We heard of the fall in the first six episodes covering 1.0, and we got the rise for the last 4 episodes covering the growing pains and updates covering 2.0.

[@mhiggs8001]

Yeah I’d like more even if we don’t need it lol. After all how much of what we consume do we need any way?

[@ReinQuest]

I honestly would love more myself but I can at least say that he captured the rollercoaster of emotions that emanated from 1.0 up to heavensword quite well. Me being new in 2023, I felt a bit lost by what the game doesn’t tell us.

[@FightOstinFight]

@@RegalPixelKinghe said he would be back. Annnnnnnd hasnt

[@DreadKyller]

@@FightOstinFight Well, it has now :)

[@crimsonvita416]

WoL from China Server here，we didn't start from the vanilla 2.0 but 2.1，thus we didn't seen the construction of Revenant's Toll.And we also faced the housing problem--just like in the reality,oof.I‘ve seen these translated episodes from Bilibili,great work,keep it up!

[@Hyskaris]

man the day he gets to the shadowbringers arc-

[@lyhthegreat]

2022..i guess

[@Megasaiyu]

@@lyhthegreat Sorry to say its looking like 2026 at his pace. :)

[@kou7191]

When I first started playing and unlocked the housing wards I was amazed and LOVED the idea of "online neighborhoods". Several months later and while I still love the concept in paper, the wards are actually ghost towns and making housing instanced actually feels like a solution

[@Platypi007]

There are pockets. In my personal ward there is an active FC near me and some active players, and I hang out there. Also in my FCs ward there are a few FCs and players around besides us. Not to say it isn't an issue, but some places see a bit of life.

[@SorasShadow1]

old comment, I know, but I see it too, my FC seems to be the only one who actually hangs out in the ward at all, at most we'll get a little message from the neighbors every few weeks (bc our decorator is a genius & our house looks _really_ good thanks to her) & maybe see 1 or 2 people by the MB every few days, meanwhile we're out here climbing on people's roofs whenever we get new mounts from farms & having little impromptu parades just because. Maybe when it jumps to ps5 we'll get a proper solution like instanced housing, it can even stay a massive gil sink! But the only community I get out of it are the people who already 'live' there as it were. To say absolutely nothing on the state of trying to _get_ a new house [shudder]

[@asheliagaming]

I love this documentary series, you really do a great job. Just a response to the entire Fall & Rise series. It's great finally seeing the whole story of what happened. We all know the 1.0 horror stories, but I never knew all the details. In truth, I quit 1.0 after a few days of trial, since I felt lost and didn't enjoy the gameplay, and I didn't return until people talked me into it around 4.0 Stormblood release date. They sure made the right choice with a full rebuild from scratch... and that epic ending of 1.0 almost makes it worth the trouble. I'll be waiting to see more, Heavensward is to date still my favorite story.

[@verdantmischief7092]

Bro your description of the Rising event brought me to a few tears. I've been playing this game for almost two years and I absolutely love doing these events. They're freaking beautiful

[@Chiannachan]

Hey! I only got into the game late 2016 and I love watching these videos, because I wasn't there for the beginning. :) thank you for letting me know and be a part!

[@SanctitheGoblin]

"isn't that the f**king gate to Ishgard" -Audience member 15:26

[@drinnik]

I really wish that you would continue with this series. It's so interesting, especially with Endwalker ending the story started in the last days of 1.0

[@Ghost_Ship1779]

That loud guy in the crowd during the Heavensward reveal... lol! He sounds so excited, it made me excited too.

[@Medinaxz]

I've linked this series to some of my friends who came from World of Warcraft, seeing how this started and where we're at now. Rewatching it brought back a lot of memories for me, and made me think of my time all the way through to now. With Endwalker approaching, I can't help but feel like an era is drawing to a close...And I am excited about what the future may offer for us.

[@user-pl4iq3sb6v]

Thank you so much for continuing your hard work in this series. As a 1.0 player, I am constantly recommending this series to other players. "Watch this series, it will give you a whole new respect for the game you are playing." And it really does.

[@danvarx]

i am a sprout that started this game this year. Thanks for this series. Very well done. Love every episodes!

[@Nurr0]

2022: Eorzean housing crisis still in full swing due to the lack of wards/plots, RIP.

[@jedimasterpickle3]

I joined well into Stormblood, but that reveal for Heavensward still gave me chills. First time I've seen that specific trailer, though.

[@eightmansimon]

My favorite youtube series by far at the moment! Please don't let us wait as long as we did for this episode for the next one :D Great job as usual!!

[@johnanderson6477]

Thank you for what you do! I missed 1.0 and am an avid FF fan and collector. This is the only way I can bookmark this non playable version of FF in my mind and collection :) May the light of the crystal shine forever upon you.

[@RElNHART1]

the wait is always worth the quality we recieve on the most informative documentary series for ffxiv I've ever seen.

[@maudlin9725]

I love these videos. If you weren't around for these experiences like me, your videos make me feels--if distantly--what it must have been like. I've never been as hype for the Heavensward trailer as when you showed it here.

[@keybladesrus]

I only started playing last year, so I know what you mean. I swear, if SE make another FF MMO, I'm going to be there day one, and I'm sticking around through thick and thin. 1.0 may have been bad, but I still wish I had been there to witness all of this firsthand. I don't want to miss it a second time. Not that I think they'll repeat 1.0, but you never know...

[@MegaErik1990]

I started playing after Patch 2.3 and you can believe me the hype was awesome! The same with Stormblood and Shadowbringers and I already can't wait for next year when the next expansion is coming XD I already sat in front of my PS4 and thought "What are the next jobs? Maybe this time one where I can say >This is my main?

[@ShapelessChaos]

Woohoo another EP Edit,: that HW music started playing and I got goosebumps

[@omejikat]

I'll always appreciate your work. 👌

[@dnnu]

Beautiful video! I can see how much work was put into it. Not gonna lie the flashbacks of the heavensward reveal trailer made me emotional. The game has come such a long way

[@starfruitify]

Wow thank you so much for sharing, very impactful

[@keybladesrus]

Ah, the Heavensward reveal. I say that as if I was even playing the game then. I got into the game in March of 2019, but I loved Heavensward so much that I already feel nostalgic for it. Seeing the reveal and hearing the crowd react makes me feel all warm and fuzzy even though I wasn't even around for it.

[@ReinQuest]

I thank you for the effort you put into this. It helped me understand some things since I’m first playing this in 2023. If you ever make more videos for this series I hope to catch them.

[@divinityryder500]

Ah...Heavensward. I didn't REALLY get into FFXIV until 2016 but man I have such fond memories of HW.

[@Desmuu]

What a lovely series, thanks for the playlist

[@Platypi007]

The feels with this one! I've played since the phase 3 betas in 2013, many of your videos have been interesting to me with the background on 1.0 I wasn't a part of, but this I lived. Such nostalgia, even for the broken bits.

[@EthanDeRose]

Dude these were amazing! Please continue the series.

[@SgtTankDempsey]

I just picked up the game a couple of weeks ago amazing to see everything change

[@tiokid]

I was waiting for a new episode. Thx.

[@zenotasedro9738]

I'd say it's not frustrating to wait for the next episode, because the quality of the work is superb. Though also, that's not quite fair as i just started playing and discovered this series like 3 days ago :D Now I'm in the waiting boat!

[@blackh9604]

Since I wasn't playing back then, these videos are awesome! I never even thought about how cool the thought of an expansion would have been.

[@eorzeantours1565]

YESSS! SO GLAD THUS IS BACK! I LOVE YOU GUYS!

[@onadaTotihotiH]

I love that my FC has the exact same plot shown at 0:52

[@SorasShadow1]

I'm barely even on Titan's MSQ line (so. tedious. OTL) rn & that Heavensward trailer gave me goosebumps, the palpable excitement is always so infectious, even years afterward.

[@Sketchblopp]

This is such a great series! It's been some time since the last video was added, but I've seen you commenting on the Addendum one, that episode 11 was being planned. Is this series to be continued eventually or did you move on and included further content about the newer history in one of your other videos? :)

[@colticide]

And this is when I started my journey into the world of eorzea. Seeing heavenward Fanfest and videos and... so much made me almost obsessed with playing ffxiv!

[@CptPoodlehats]

Dude same here! I'm actually going to write out my journey from discovering FFXIV to discovering Heavensward to finally playing to now! It's a doozy :)

[@colticide]

@@CptPoodlehats hey best of luck!! I got so many ideas on what to try and make for ffxiv and my journey through it! (Maybe once the arr NG+ gets added~)

[@TDOTCRFH4]

Sure glad the housing crisis has since been... solved...

[@TekLWar]

[@blake3242]

@@TekLWar *Laughs in Odin*

[@rexxel8867]

i laughed when he said, when they added an extra ward for the houses after the patch, it was all filled within hours oh boy, i'm from tonberry, and after the patch 5.1 (i forgot if it's 5.1 or 5.1x) they added more wards i was so hyped to move to shirogane, and oh boyyyyyyyy MINUTES after the patch, it was already full (the L houses though not S/M) not the surprising though and till now i still don't know the future for pvp, until when will the pvp will the have the "best" system for it currently right now it's enjoyable, no need to think about equipment and just have to know the skills for the fight it's just enjoyable but not that great while the raiding is of course more improved

[@SorasShadow1]

5.35 patch morning was fun, mostly because it's a sleep deprived haze in my memory where the only clear thing I remember was not being able to feel my hands when the purchase of our plot went through & my friends all yelling in VC about how they were still in the login queue....goddamn I want instanced housing. It's cool to see the houses of other people but it's really not worth the physical cost at this point.

[@wiscoria]

I joined the game during the time of Stormblood, but the reading of the letter, the Rising Event, and the Heavensward trailer still made me tear up.

[@thatrandomguycommenting1261]

Ah just when world of darkness and the coils where at the peak and we thought this was it they slam us with a video of flying mounts, dragons and new job gear and everyone lost their shit. Heavensward imo was the turning point for the games success. It was either going to fizzle out or explode and boy did it explode because here we are in 2021 with Endwalker a few months out and the player base is unreal compared to 2.x. 3,500 concurrent average players in 2015 2021 so far 20,000 average with over 20 million subbed. To think 1.0 had less than 1 million subbed and usually about 500 concurrent players. This game really did a 360. I know it doesn't have WoW numbers but I'd rather keep it this way. Servers are huge but small enough you will regularly see familiar people.

[@sonicroze]

This was a nice surprise. I recently got a house in the game, after they added some new wards. Can't wait till the Firmament opens up

[@blake3242]

With the new wards, I managed to nab my dream plot in the centre of the Goblet (I love the goblet, it gets shafted as the least popular, but like, its just so dang pretty!). It meant spending 1.3mil on relocating, but honestly worth it. But I'm lucky. No one cares about the EU servers so like, so many plots still open. Even ones in the non-FC locked wards.

[@caveman3461]

As always I enjoy these! I will wait for another story of the realm! ^_^

[@Eunhon93]

Omg i love theses videos! Please keep up on them !

[@psenkdead]

time to continue the series.

[@SorasShadow1]

As the one who snagged the FC house in the most recent patch I can definitely imagine what that patch day was like. Was awake at 3am watching the patch download chatting with the FC on discord, everybody too tired to be nervous right up until we were able to launch the game, then we're all collectively losing our shit watching the queue number tick down. Thank goodness for lvl 80 DNC, I just barely beat at least 1 other player to the plot I'd scoped out. I actually couldn't feel my hands for a minute or so afterwards due to the intense relief, it's a small plot & we're still working towards a larger one, but now the long _long_ days & nights of endlessly clicking a placard only to lose to a bot are done. Damn they need to fix housing...

[@galephantom7902]

I've loved watching this series, and seeing how far the game has come brings a tear to the eyes, now I do have a quick question with the next episode. will you be covering the tragedy of Yugiri's English voice actor Sian Blake? of how she and her children were killed by her husband between 2.x and 3.x? If I remember it right

[@Saber9933]

Man, the chills from that HW trailer so real it makes you think you're wandering the frozen wastes of coerthas yourself

[@JunGull]

I loved this series. I hope you continue it.

[@SubduedRadical]

8:20 - OH! So THAT'S where that artwork came from? 10th anniversary Rising coming up this year (in...like a week or something? :D), and saw that picture was one of the rewards, along with two orchestration rolls. Noticed Papalymo on it right away. Thought it was new but might be a reference to something. Looks like they took the 1st anniversary's Rising artwork and are adding it as an in-game picture. That's awesome. :D Love this series, hope you guys continue it and these similar projects someday!

[@Boyzby]

The hunts were a such pain to track down, especially in Coerthas. However, the best part of Naul being a mark was when people would ask if anyone has seen him, puns like "Naul today" were always replied in shout chat (along with the occasional location). I was so lucky to get my FC house. I spent so long getting the money from selling maps, glamour prism items, and Ehcatl sealants. If I were a couple days later, my neighbor told me he was going to buy it. I spent so much time look at it and dreaming of getting the plot, because of how nice the location is. There are a lot of little memories tied to it, I would be sad if I ever lost it for some reason. My personal house, it would suck but I'll live, but that spot is very special to me.

[@johnnyrokker]

keep em comin!!!!!

[@Mrproduct0454]

Worth the wait... Thanks

[@KnightRaymund]

Another fantastic video.

[@NikoBlazeWind]

I hope to see a Return of this Series one day

[@MalkavX]

This is a great series. I am sad it was not continued, but it certainly is well crafted.

[@mayumi0desu]

the goosebumps were real

[@Numl0k]

Just over two years without an update. I wonder if we'll ever get another video in this series... BUT, I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this. I first started right around the time Heavensward dropped. I was very sporadic in my play. I've only gotten serious about the game in the past few months. I always knew that the game had been remade, but I didn't really know the history. It's really awesome to finally hear the full story. This really is a special game. I hope that Endwalker isn't where we start to come to a close to this huge story. But, if it is, I hope the next generation of Final Fantasy MMO's is as grand as this, and as special as FFXI was when I was a teenager.

[@JamotHica]

As if this new ep was released today!! I just got into this series yesterday and have been binging a little =D

[@Leviamify]

When episode 11 and so on? This episodes have been really fun

[@PMSJordans]

The year is 2022 and we still have a housing crisis. XD

[@dogdoge9712]

Very nostalgic

[@PaulHofreiter]

“I’ll be back in the next video” *me scrolling down to click the next video* WHERE IS IT D:

[@Kodan882]

"Dying naked, under a full moon" ...He's joking about that, right? (I started late HW)

[@MegaErik1990]

To be honest... I don't know. But I do know there are some... interesting triggers for the S-hunts XD For example for one of those you have to walk with a specific pet over the spawn points of the mob when the spawn is ready to trigger it XD And for another one there have to be PC's losing HP to let it spawn... At least thats what other people told me. ^_^

[@Myscha]

Just a half. There's one in coerthas where you had to loose a lot of hp, and to do it faster, we made a lot of parties jumping in chain from a cliff. Some were totally naked :)

[@MegaErik1990]

@@Myscha Yeah, I remembered I did it one time with them... but after 5 minutes with no spawn I just thought "Screw it! It's just a rumor thats not true!" XD

[@ultimatecalibur]

Yes, he was. He is actually conflating the conditions of 2 S-ranks, Outer LN (S rank spawns when someone dies in the zone) and Lower LN (S-rank spawns when someone steps on the spawn point during a Full Moon), and adding in something spawners did to reduce costs (removing gear so it wouldn't be damaged when dying).

[@thogameskanaal]

The real question though... Wil he finish the next episode before Endwalker? JK of course :3 No pressure

[@AdamZovits]

Well, it seems SE was faster :P

[@yuukarnstein]

I'm the only one waiting for the story to catch up with Shadowbringers? 8D

[@kluafoz]

7 years on still a MASSIVE HOUSING SHORTAGE...

[@Preaplanes]

2021 will be an interesting chapter in the game's history

[@thogameskanaal]

Something I missed? I stopped playing in 2020 due to busy live stuff. I hope I can catch up soon before Endwalker...

[@thogameskanaal]

@@Preaplanes ah, that's awesome news! This makes me more excited to get on board again. Yeah, it's about time WoW would be pushed from their number one spot. With all respect of course, but from what I've heard, it seems that the game lost a lot of it's appeal with people saying the devs are acting like robots trying to reinvent 'fun'. I can certainly see where they're coming from when looking at FFXIV, where fun gameplay is a main priority.

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

This next episode you teased is taking longer to drop than Ishgard did

[@kaihedgie1747]

I needed this after the Smash Direct

[@hyzenthlayefrafa4001]

Oh that gave me flashbacks of that awfully planned London Fanfest. I'm glad they learned their lesson!

[@skullwolfsteam]

hey luke when they heck are you going to do the next episode all iv seen on your channel for the past few months or even the past year has been your podcast...not content like armaments of a realm (tho i did see a few mimium item levels) also i swear their used to be another episode called addendum community but that's seemingly been removed sometime ago hope you see this dude a lot of people would like to see this series continue!

[@cylesteasunrise3199]

Feels like we haven't had one since stormblood

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

I come from the future. The year is 2035 and the new ps6 released. THe housing crisis has reached its peak. The world economy depends on it. One small house is now worth several houses IRL.

[@WalkerGallier]

EXPANSION YES

[@gracefullynadine864]

Lost my house while I took a break and have never been able to find a plot near my FC since.

[@erikaswanson2170]

shoutout to yoshi'ps high qual dark knight cosplay. they really amped it up for SB/ShB/ and EW lol. still like it though

[@papasfritas3853]

Long life to FFXIV and Yoshi-P

[@kewitt1]

My fc has had houce since 2.1 dropped and upgraded to large sometime in 4 and we are on balmung. I have a house and my hubby has one too. In fact I was hospitalised for 7 months and my hubby lost our 1st home. It really isn't that big of an issue.

[@or10nsharkfin]

... Taken out of context this would sound incresibly heart breaking.

[@KenjiShinomori]

Whens the next episode tho

[@metalmilitia89]

I have a house...and I just recently started playing.

[@flzerocs]

WAIT WHAT... wait what lvl are you as we speak? i wasted like 1-2 mil to rush stormblood (2 hours before shadow bringers came out so I had a reason). The economy in crystal is so bad.

[@RayehZ]

is not hard depending on the server you're playing. For exmaple Bryhildir has a TON of open houses but then go and try to get one on Balmung and you'll see where all the complains come from lol.

[@vtbbbnk]

Episode 11 is coming or no? 5 months since this one?)

[@CringeLordu]

I wish you could do the same series for World of Warcraft. The fall from grace. From the high point of Wrath of Lich King to the first disappointment of Cataclysm, from a brief hope of Legion to utter shite that is Battle For Azeroth. I would like to see that and than I hope I understand why fans are nostalgic :D

[@allxtend4005]

where you was playing ? i dont think not on any FF 14 server because the housing ... likely every FC had a house and the B rank monsters was not rare. But i remember the login issues :( i started to paly on a ps3 then switched to a ps4 and then at the end palyed on my pc because it was faster then the ps4 :) so good memorys about FF XIV ARR even heavensward was awesome even when i was at the end game and had likely done everything and most of my classes was good equipt and most of them lv.60 and hell i did a lot of Gil by Crafting ... and how many Gil i spend to level my crafter T_T Final Fantasy XIV is the best MMORPG experience i ever had. Maybe i will start playing it again when i find some free time.

[@laiden25]

Housing is still a problem now...please fix it 😓

[@ShivaServer2009]

What music's in the intro?

[@MegaErik1990]

When you read the letter from Yoshi P. from the first anniversary I had a thought... a very dark one. What will happen, when the game finishes? When the servers will shut down? Let's be honest, this day will come... And I'm afraid of it... Q_Q I don't know what I will do when it arrives, so I will be happy about every day it continues.

[@GeekInBelgium]

I guess we'll at least go to the end of 6.x, so the story with the Empire can finish, but they teased other continents with the Blue Mage quests, and there's also the possibility of going into other worlds at some point. Even if they stop updating it, we can imagine the servers will be up for about 10 years. Someday, we will have to live with fond memories of Hydaelyn and all the friends we made there, all the adventures we went through.

[@oidana]

i think the make 3-4 more expansion before the really think to end it. Bit when i guess the have a new better mmoprg with the new standards allready in the pipes!

[@MegaErik1990]

@@oidana Hopefully ^^ And to be honest it was just a short thought of me... I had a rough day when I postet this comment ^^"

[@th3darkph3nix35]

yooo where is episode 11!

[@IvanRuzhanovskyi99]

The Fall & Rise of FFXIV Episode 11 when?

[@benkask96]

No more parts?

[@lukasbjornendermann9944]

Where is the next episode ?

[@joalex79]

no more parts?

[@Megasaiyu]

See part Eleven in.. ugh.. i guess 2022?

[@entreaty_band6914]

Housing crisis is just living in Florida in a nutshell

[@oneill3300]

at least the housing crisis would finally be dealt with, though godam it took quiiiite some time lol

[@ioan_jivan]

Pam*Pam*... A housing crisis! Pam*Pam*Pam*Pam

[@lukasbjornendermann9944]

Next episode?

[@Sythorn10]

YES! EXPAN-SION! YES!