Our latest coverage of Final Fantasy XIV.
Can you believe it's been four years already? It seems just like yesterday, Final Fantasy XIV went live with its completely new design, under the tagline of A Realm Reborn! To celebrate four years of gameplay across two expansions (three if you count the base game succeeding the failure of FFXIV 1.0), Square Enix has announced its second 14-hour livestream celebration! [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV patch 4.06 is here and with it comes quite a few new changes. Most notably, Dragoons, Ninjas, Bards, Machinists, and Summoners all received some buffs and the automatic logout function has been removed (congestion has died down a lot since Stormblood's launch). Players can access the full patch notes here. Another interesting bit of Final Fantasy XIV [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV is a familiar face at PAX, and PAX West 2017 is no exception! With Stormblood, FFXIV's 4.0 Expansion, out in full force, there isn't too much that players can expect in terms of upcoming content - after all, the expansion has only been out for just over a month! At this PAX convention, players and event-goers will be [...]
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Summer means a lot of things to a lot of people. For Final Fantasy XIV, it means the return of the annual Moonfire Faire! For those that started playing FFXIV recently and may not be familiar with some of the game's events, the Moonfire Faire traces its roots all the way back to Version 1.0 of the game. Since then, [...]
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We've had gear design contests. We've had screenshot contests. However, Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy XIV's very first Furnishing Design Contest! The rules and details of the contest are rather simple - players are to design a piece of furniture that can be placed in their housing areas. Anything can be created - from roofs to exterior walls, to [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV has released the Patch Notes for their latest patch, Patch 4.05. With it, a new raid tier has been added - Omega: Deltascape (Savage) has been added. On top of that, an increase in Item Level for players via new gear is available, both from the Deltascape, and via weekly tomestone currency that can be exchanged for [...]
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Letters from the Producer LIVE are always interesting. It gives the players of FFXIV a window into what the Dev team has planned, and also for players to ask questions of the dev team. The most recent live letter, Letter #37, took place in the wee hours of the morning on July 15th, 2017, and there were a lot of [...]
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In FFXIV, the Aquapolis is a dungeon that spawns randomly whenever players complete a Timeworn Dragonskin Map. Seven rooms, and only a 50/50 chance to advance to the next one! If you manage to get to the last room of the Aquapolis, riches await! Not too long ago, Square Enix posted a Developers' Blog update about the Lost Canals of Uznair! Mechanically, [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV's Callback Campaign has been met with questionable success. I say questionable, because we don't exactly have hard numbers. Players returning to FFXIV as a result of this campaign isn't a metric that can be easily tracked. Nonetheless, Square Enix has decided that the Callback Campaign has had a good run, and has announced its end. As soon [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV's Letters from the Producer LIVE are usually magical things. It gives the development team, usually the Produce & Director Yoshida Naoki, as well as Murouchi Toshio of the FFXIV Community Team, a chance to show off new content coming up in FFXIV. And so, the next Letter from the Producer LIVE, Letter #37, has been announced. Slated for [...]
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