One player earned all of Final Fantasy XIV’s achievements 10 years after the MMO game launched, and it’s a pretty impressive feat. For one thing, unlocking some of FF XIV’s achievements takes hundreds of hours of completing tasks several times before you reach a certain point.
For another, there’s 2,751 achievements in total (thanks, GamesRadar).
The player completed their last achievement on the Garuda server in Japan in August 2023, though the news didn’t make it out until someone posted it on Reddit. It’ll be a fleeting victory, though. Square Enix adds new achievements with every major update, including FF XIV 6.5, which launched in early October 2023, and probably a whole lot more when the new Dawntrail expansion launches in summer 2024.
These range from simple things, such as completing a seasonal event, to complex endeavors that require time and a great deal of patience. One achievement rewards you for clearing certain difficult dungeons on your own. Another requires you to slay 5,000 S-rank marks in FF XIV’s hunts, and still another makes you get every Relic weapon – one for each class. These unlock in phases as you repeat quests and tasks multiple times.
The most complicated one, however, is the Levequest achievement. Levequests reward players with experience and were, in the game’s beginning, a decent way to level up before Square Enix made that process easier. Each settlement has its own set of Levequests, and you could complete three every day. It takes seven years to do them all.
As for what’s left to do, one Redditer actually pointed out the player still has two more mounts to get through Extreme Trials – yet another challenging activity – that aren’t tied to achievements. The grind continues.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF