Final Fantasy XIV News

As part of Square Enix’s fight against server congestion in FFXIV, the developers disabled the option for new players to sign up for a free trial as Endwalker was released, but today players can rejoice as free trials have once again been enabled. Final Fantasy XIV might have the most generous free trial of any …

Final Fantasy XIV boasts one of the most impressive comeback stories in gaming history. When the first version of the game, which launched in 2010, was panned, the developers made the bold choice to rebuild the game from the ground up. The new version, called Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, launched in 2013 to …

Valentione’s Day is almost here, and Square Enix is getting into the spirit with some heart-shaped rewards! Players who log in to Final Fantasy XIV between February 8th and February 21st will be able to participate and earn various goodies, including an adorable Postmoogle Chocobo Barding and a Valentione Mobile furnishing. To participate, talk to …

Final Fantasy XIV’s fight against server congestion continues and the Oceania Data Center has officially launched. Sales of the game have also resumed, though free trials are not available at the moment. The Data Center consists of five worlds and server transfers are open and FREE. Players on the center will receive double XP until …

Final Fantasy XIV’s Executive Producer Naoki Yoshida returned recently with an update on the continuing fight against server congestion that the game has been seeing since the release of Endwalker in December. Progress has been made, but some worlds are still experiencing congestion at peak times to the team will continue working on the issue, …

Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 6.05 arrived today and introduced the Savage version of the Pandæmonium raid, Allegan Tomestones of Astronomy, new housing items, gear, mounts, and even a new treasure hunt dungeon. The dungeon which is called Excitatron 6000 will let players earn “priceless treasures” according to the patch notes which can be found on …

Final Fantasy XIV’s popularity seems to be ever-increasing as server congestions issues continue to plague the game after the recent Endwalker release. Square Enix seems to be on top of the issues though and yesterday Producer & Director of FFXIV, Naoki Yoshida, returned with another update to the community. All FFXIV players with active subscriptions …

Final Fantasy XIV’s fourth expansion, Endwalker, is finally live for everyone that didn’t pre-order. Server congestion issues are still persisting, so all players with active subs have gotten a week of game time for free to compensate for the issues. To celebrate the official release, FFXIV has partnered with Grubhub. Using the promo code ENDWALKER …

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is currently in early access for players that pre-ordered the expansion and it has already set a new personal best for concurrent players on Steam. At the peak, 95,150 players were exploring Eorzea during the weekend. Keep in mind that most players do not play FFXIV through Steam so the total …

Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion Endwalker has finally been released, for now, it’s just for the folks who pre-ordered the expansion. The rest of us will have to wait a couple more days until the 7th. The servers went up at 1:00 AM PST and as predicted have been full since launch. Queues lasting several …

Endwalker is soon upon us (if you can survive the queues) and for those of us that have pre-ordered Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion, the adventure starts tomorrow, Friday, December 3rd. If you want to be prepared for what’s ahead, you can head over to the FFXIV site and check out the Patch 6.0 notes, …

Just a few more days now until you can enjoy the next chapter in the Final Fantasy XIV saga, Endwalker. And as with any new release for such a popular title comes the flood of returning players, but even with recent server optimizations, Square Enix still expects server congestion and long queue times when the …