Final Fantasy 14's next expansion, Evercold, has been delayed by four weeks and will now launch in February, pushing it into what GamesRadar+ describes as a very busy release window. The month-long slip was announced alongside a new trailer that Kotaku summed up simply: "This looks awesome."

The scheduling gets spicier from there. Pre-orders for Evercold open on the same day World of Warcraft: Forever releases, per GamesRadar+ — putting the two biggest MMOs on the market in direct conversation with each other during the same stretch of the calendar. February is already shaping up as a pileup, and Evercold's arrival adds one more heavyweight to the stack.

A four-week delay is modest by MMO expansion standards, and trading a few weeks for polish is a bargain most players will happily accept — especially when the new footage is doing the marketing on its own. The real test is whether a crowded February leaves enough oxygen for everyone.