*Update November 28, 2024 9:05pm Pacific: It appears the original social media post for the clear was deleted because a red dot was visible, suggesting that a certain plug-in was being used. Once again, a Final Fantasy XIV world’s first claim is surrounded by controversy. For now, we’ll be keeping an eye on the Echo x MogTalk stream to see which team achieves it live first.
The Japan-based team GRIND is the world’s first raid team to clear Final Fantasy XIV’s newest Ultimate raid, Futures Rewritten. The clear comes much faster than the previous Ultimate raid, The Omega Protocol, which was marred by controversy when a cheating team, UNNAMED_, claimed the world’s first title. Unfortunately, GRIND was not among the teams streaming their progress, so we’ll have to wait for video footage to see how the fight ends. Currently, Echo leads the streaming teams, hitting the enrage on the final phase at 5.6 percent. Lucrezia isn’t far off at 7.3 percent. At the time of publishing, the race is still on for the streamed world’s first, and it’s currently Echo’s race to lose.
There shouldn’t be much debate about GRIND’s world’s first claim, as GRIND was also the world’s first to clear Arcadion Savage, which launched in patch 7.05. That race was also relatively short, concluding in roughly 10 hours.
It’ll be interesting to hear feedback from the raiding community on the difficulty of this Ultimate, considering how much faster it was to clear compared to other Ultimates.
