Final Fantasy XIV News

It’s nearly been three months since the Endwalker expansion was released and the Final Fantasy XIV dev team is now looking forward to the next major patch. As is the tradition the next patch will be unveiled in Naoki Yoshida’s next live letter to the community, which will be airing in the early hours of Friday, March 4th at 3:00 [...]

The past few months have been rough for both Square Enix and the Final Fantasy XIV community as the servers struggled to keep up with the massive influx of players that descended on the game following the highly-awaited Endwalker expansion launch in December. Now that the Endwalker launch rush has died down and the population has more or less stabilized, [...]

After months of dealing with long queues and login problems, the Final Fantasy XIV servers are finally starting to cope with the massive influx of players brought about by the Endwalker expansion’s release last December. Over the past few weeks, Square Enix has been re-enabling features that were temporarily disabled due to congestion issues. One of those disabled features is [...]

While most Final Fantasy XIV players play the game directly through the launcher, a good chunk of the playerbase also play it on Steam. Starting next month, Steam users will be required to link their Steam accounts with their Square Enix accounts as part of the developers’ efforts to enhance account security and help prevent fraud. “[. . .] Users [...]

Server congestion in Final Fantasy XIV continues to be a massive thorn in Square Enix’ side since the Endwalker expansion launched last month. To spread the load, the team recently opened a new data center in Oceania, which inadvertently resulted in even more congestion as a large influx of character transfer requests began to flood the new data center. Square [...]

With New Year festivities over and done with, it’s now time to focus on the next big holiday coming to Final Fantasy XIV – Halloween. Wait, what? Halloween in January? Well, if you’ll remember, last year’s All Saints’ Wake Halloween event was delayed for some reason or other and was pushed back to sometime this month. That time is now. [...]

Final Fantasy XIV Executive Producer Naoki Yoshida is back with an update on the overpopulation issues that have been plaguing the game since the Endwalker expansion launched early last month. Yoshida assures the community that they’re working to fix the issues as fast as possible but, unfortunately, it’s still going to take a while due to the ongoing global semiconductor [...]

If there’s one thing you can count on, its Naoki Yoshida talking up Final Fantasy XIV in some form or another. Whether it’s through a letter to the community, a forum post, or a livestream, the Executive Producer is always ready to share news about the popular fantasy MMORPG. In the latest Radio Mog Station livestream, Yoshida revealed several Endwalker [...]

Final Fantasy XIV launched update 6.05 today which introduces the following new content to the critically acclaimed MMORPG: Savage version of the Pandæmonium raids Excitatron 6000 treasure dungeon New housing items New prizes at the gold saucer Balance changes for Monk, Dragoon, Ninja, Samurai, Reaper, Dancer, Summoner, and Scholar New elite marks New Tomestones (Astronomy) New Items New Mounts New [...]