Final Fantasy XIV News

Final Fantasy XIV players who were affected by the housing lottery bug will finally get to build the house of their dreams. After a month of working on a fix, the dev team is now ready to deploy them and restore the lost lottery data on May 16th. Once the servers come back online after maintenance, the winning lottery numbers [...]

Square Enix follows up on Naoki Yoshida’s earlier warning against the use of third-party add-ons in Final Fantasy XIV by banning several Japanese and English-speaking streamers. The streamers were reportedly banned because they displayed prohibited tools during their respective streams even though Yoshida specifically told players not to use them. So far, the community has been very accepting of the [...]

The quest to claim the title of World First for Final Fantasy XIV’s new Dragonsong’s Reprise (Ultimate) Trial has officially come to an end. The first successful clear, however, has added fuel to the fire of a very hot debate about the use of third-party addons which were reportedly in use during the run. The issue has prompted Producer and [...]

Final Fantasy XIV’s Newfound Adventures update may have just come out but Executive Producer Naoki Yoshida reveals that they’ve already started work on the next expansion’s storyline. As FFXIV players probably already know, the current Endwalker expansion will feature the epic conclusion to the Hydaelyn–Zodiark story arc that began nearly a decade ago with the release of the A Realm [...]

As far as MMORPG’s go, playing completely solo is out of the question. At some point in time you’re going to be required to group up to complete a certain task or maybe even forced to do so to take down a particularly tough mini-boss. Final Fantasy XIV is looking to change that notion as revealed by Executive Producer Naoki [...]

Final Fantasy XIV players looking forward to joining the next housing lottery will have to wait some more as Square Enix continues to work on fixing the broken system. As previously noted, the team has already come up with the required fixes but will need more time to implement them and award the appropriate housing plots to the winning bidders. [...]

Housing lottery issues aside, Final Fantasy XIV’s newly-released Newfound Adventures update still has plenty of other content for players to enjoy and Square Enix has just added more. Patch 6.11 arrives with a new Ultimate trial for players to take on as Dragonsong’s Reprise, one of the Dragonsong War’s toughest challenges returns in Ultimate form. “’There are no ifs in [...]

Over the past week, the Final Fantasy XIV dev team has been hard at work trying to fix the issues that broke the first housing lottery cycle last week. The good news is that the they’ve reproduced the issue and have already rolled out the necessary fixes although it’s going to take a bit longer to verify that they actually [...]

Final Fantasy XIV joins in on Final Fantasy XI’s 20th anniversary celebrations with the return of the Maiden’s Rhapsody collaboration event. Starting April 28th, players will once again be able to go on an epic quest alongside FFXI’s Iroha. Players who’ve yet to complete the event will get to pick up exactly where they left off for a chance to [...]

Final Fantasy XIV executive producer Naoki Yoshida is back with an update on last weekend’s housing lottery fiasco. Yoshida reports that the new lottery system which managed the bids worked exactly as it should but the results weren’t properly relayed to the housing server. Once the issue is resolved, the team will be able to confirm the actual winners and [...]