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Final Fantasy 16 already playable for some gamers

Physical copies have already made their way to their owners

Marco Wutz

Final Fantasy 16 already playable for some gamers
Final Fantasy 16 already playable for some gamers /

It’s another highly-anticipated release and another occasion where physical copies of said game have already made their way to their buyers ahead of the official release date: Some players are already enjoying Final Fantasy 16 – not the PS5 game’s free demo, but the full thing.

While this is very lucky indeed for those whose copies have been shipped early or spotted some at their local store, this also means that spoilers are currently running free and wild everywhere on the internet. If you want to go into Final Fantasy 16 blind and without any knowledge of story and characters, you should probably avoid any social media regions even remotely connected to the Square Enix game. At the moment, most of the spoilers only concern the early game, but you never know when something big comes up. Better be safe than sorry, eh?

Hogwarts Legacy is another prominent example for this exact scenario happening this year, and somehow we get the feeling that Starfield might be up next.

Final Fantasy 16 will officially launch on June 22, 2023, on PS5, which is when everyone finally gets to experience the RPG. A PC port is definitely on the to-do list according to producer Naoki Yoshida, but it won’t come out in 2023.

Previews for the game and impressions from the demo have been very positive, so Final Fantasy 16 looks to be a worthy successor to its fabled series.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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