Square Enix held a Final Fantasy XV live stream to make some important announcements about the title, heading it up with the announcement that Game Director Hajime Tabata was resigning from Luminous Productions and Square Enix. In a statement by Tabata prepared for the live stream, he talks about having a project that he wants to take on as his next challenge, but he needed to leave Square Enix and start his own business in order to do so. With Tabata taking leave of the company and the Final Fantasy XV project, three of the four planned DLC expansions have been cancelled.
2019 was supposed to hold the Dawn of the Future expansion series, featuring Episode Ardyn, Episode Aranea, Episode Lunafreya, and Episode Noctis. All except Episode Ardyn have been cancelled, with Ardyn still planned for its March 2019 release. Square Enix used the stream to release a brief teaser for the expansion and reveal Final Fantasy XV Episode Ardyn Prologue, which is effectively two additional teasers to be released on December 15, 2018, and January 10, 2019.  Existing DLC for Final Fantasy XV will see a price drop.
The Final Fantasy XV stream continued with additional announcements to celebrate the two-year anniversary of the game, including Final Fantasy XV: Comrades being released as a standalone game that does not require the main game to play, coming December 12, 2018. There will also be a Final Fantasy XV collaboration with Final Fantasy XIV, set to launch on the same day. The collab...