Final Fantasy XIV News

The annual All Saints Wake is here! Final Fantasy XIV's annual Halloween Celebration comes around for another round, and the Continental Circus are up to their usual tricks once more. Join the Adventurers Guild of Gridania to make sure that the Continental Circus doesn't end up turning children into vampires...or what-have-you that they tend to do. The rewards for this [...]

Final Fantasy XIV is hosting a rerun of its Callback Campaign! We previously covered the Callback Campaign, and though the incentives for a returning player are there, its questionable as to how much it actually works, as it has a strict limitation. The returning player must have been inactive for at least 90 days. This 90 day mark is significant, yet [...]

Final Fantasy XIV is finally working to address the game's house shortage problem. Naoki Yoshida posted on the game's official forums yesterday that additional housing wards will be introduced to the game in Patch 4.2. New wards will be available for all of the game's housing districts (Lavender Beds, The Goblet, Mist, and Shirogane). Housing has always been an issue [...]

Final Fantasy XIV Patch 4.1 is officially live and with it comes the brand new housing district of Shirogane, the 4th such district to be added to the game. As expected there was quite a land rush with thousands of players trying to log seconds after the servers came up. The new district introduced 12 new wards (each with 60 [...]

Finally, after a long three months of waiting, Final Fantasy XIV is finally coming out with its next major content update - Patch 4.1! Earlier, we brushed upon some of the balance changes that will be coming with Patch 4.1, but we also had an incomplete set of patch notes. Now, the real deal is here, and we can check [...]

Keeping up with tradition, Final Fantasy XIV's next patch, Patch 4.1 - also known as The Legend Returns - has had its Preliminary Patch Notes published! Typically, a major patch will see its patch notes released a few days before the patch goes live, so players know what to expect. With the Preliminary Patch Notes live, lets go over some [...]

With Patch 4.1 less than a week away, Final Fantasy XIV has finally rounded out their Patch 4.1 Teaser Site! Additionally - thanks to Reddit user /u/Valfreeze, we have excerpts from a Famitsu interview with Producer & Developer of FFXIV himself, Yoshi-P! Lets dive right in. Rounding off the Special Site, we have new information on what more "Additional Updates" [...]

One more week, folks, one more week. Final Fantasy XIV will soon release Patch 4.1 on October 10th, and with it will come a lot of changes and updates. But until we get the full patch notes, the FFXIV Dev Blog has posted an update - regarding some of the Job Gauge changes coming in Patch 4.1! Ever since Stormblood's [...]

Veteran Rewards in Final Fantasy XIV have always been a nice touch. Being subscribed for a certain amount of days meant that players would receive special in-game bonus items, from mounts to minions to even special outfits modeled after previous Final Fantasy protagonists! However, a glaring flaw in this system meant that players only just starting out would have to [...]