Saito explained both how and why FFXIV emotes and gear are in Babylon’s Fall. He noted it was to help offer more for players. Yoshida then clarified that the action would help with the game’s ...

Players will have the opportunity to obtain two new emotes through the FFXIV Make It Rain 2022 Gold Saucer event. The event will begin on June 3 and last until June 20, 2022.

We've played the Babylon's Fall beta ourselves - FFXIV armour and all - and came away feeling a tad cold. The upcoming PC game looks better than it did at E3, though it's not quite there yet.

Saito added that borrowing data from the Final Fantasy XIV team allowed Babylon’s Fall developers to introduce “a much wider variety” of gear and emotes than originally planned.

The upcoming Patch 7.3: The Promise of Tomorrow update for FFXIV is adding a feature that fans have been begging for since Shadowbringers came out six years ago.

In doing so, FFXIV makes it its own and takes the time to flesh things out and create a sense of scale and variety that one-off Final Fantasy entries would be hard-pressed to execute.