Our latest coverage of Final Fantasy XIV.
High quality items in Final Fantasy XIV will be getting a few big adjustments when Endwalker comes out later this year. The gist of the update is that high quality items will only be obtainable through crafting when the expansion arrives and will no longer be available through gathering, vendors, and enemy drops. This applies to items, crafted items, ingredients, [...]
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Square Enix revealed plenty of new information for Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker in its latest Live Letter from the Producer last night. With the game's level cap increasing to 90, there's a whole lot of new abilities being introduced to the game and some massive class changes (Summoner rework). Check out some of the job changes below: FINAL FANTASY XIV: [...]
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Square Enix is giving Final Fantasy XIV players another shot at scoring exclusive Final Fantasy XV goodies as the “Nocturne for Heroes” event returns to the game next week. The latest version of the event comes with a quest replay feature that will allow players who already completed the event quests back in 2019 to experience it once again from [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV is celebrating the 8th anniversary of it’s a successful reboot as A Realm Reborn with the return of the annual The Rising event. This year’s anniversary event comes with a new quest called “Rising Calm” and new event rewards in the form of the Red Moon Parasol and the Nymeia Potpourri. Players are apparently grumbling over this [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV's sudden rise in popularity over the last couple of months has had some unintended consequences: long queue times to log in on the busiest servers. To address this issue, Square Enix announced that all worlds on the Aether datacenter have been labeled as 'congested', which means no new characters can be created on these servers until further [...]
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Summer is heating up and Final Fantasy XIV is cooling things down with frozen treats at Costa del Sol as the annual Moonfire Faire returns to the game next week. Head down to the Upper Decks of Limsa Lominsa to start Mayaru Moyaru “Unseasonable Chills” questline for a chance to earn seasonal rewards. This year’s event will feature the new [...]
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Over the past few weeks, Final Fantasy XIV has experienced a sudden surge of players, resulting in long queue times as the servers strain to handle the unexpected load. Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida apologized to the community in a recent blog post and assured the community that they’re doing everything they can to address the ongoing login problems. “Expectations [...]
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Want to serve up some authentic Final Fantasy XIV cuisine on your next party? Why not bake some Knight’s Bread of Coerthas for breakfast or a La Noscea’s Rolanberry Cheesecake for dessert? Square Enix is giving you the means to do so with The Ultimate Final Fantasy XIV Cookbook. “Take a culinary adventure through one of gaming’s most beloved franchises,” [...]
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Since Asmongold, a popular World of Warcaft streamer, began playing Final Fantasy the long-standing MMORPG’s playerbase has seen a significant spike in numbers. Just last week, the long-standing MMORPG set a new player concurrency record on Steam with a peak player count of over 48,000 players. That record was broken just yesterday when concurrent player numbers peaked at an all-time [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV set a new player concurrency record on Steam yesterday with over 48,000 players logged in at the same time. The previous record was a little over 41,000 players, which was set in June 2019. Since Final Fantasy XIV is also available outside of Steam, these numbers don’t necessarily paint an accurate picture of actual player numbers, although [...]
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