Final Fantasy XIV Archives

Battle royale games are big right now, and the evergrowing behemoth that is Fortnite seems like it won't ever stop, but having Final Fantasy XIV Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida talk about making a battle royale game is going a bit too far. In an interview with GameSpot, Yoshida enthused that one of his dream projects would be a[...]

According to a recent interview with GameSpot, Final Fantasy XIV Director Naoki Yoshida has confirmed that Square Enix is in talks with various platform holders to bring the MMORPG to new platforms. From GameSpot: "Talks with platform-holders has been going on The fundamental philosophy with Final Fantasy XIV is we want it on labels with cross-platform play with any devices, hardware[...]

credit// Square Enix At last weekend's Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Tokyo, Square Enix released a ton of information on the new areas, raids, jobs, and races coming to the game with the Shadowbringers expansion this summer One of the new areas revealed was The Crystarium, which might look familiar. If you paid attention to game tech demos back[...]

credit// Square Enix The climatic end of the Stormblood storyline aarrived in Final Fantasy XIV Online today with the release of Patch 4.56. This finale will set the stage for the next expansion, Shadowbringers, in which players hop dimensions to the First World and visit  Norvrandt Essentially this makes all players take on the role of Warriors of Darkness as seen during theHeavensward[...]

During Fan Festival 2019 in Tokyo, it was revealed that the antagonist from Final Fantasy XIV, Zenos yae Galvus, will be a Dissidia Final Fantasy NT DLC character He will officially be added to the arcade edition on March 26th, and then the PS4 as DLC on April 11th Not a lot of details have[...]

credit// Square Enix Final Fantasy XIV's Patch 4.56 will release on March 26, 2019, and a week ahead of the launch, Square Enix unveiled some details on what fans can expect from the final Stormblood patch Patch 4.56 will set up this summer's Shadowbringers expansion with a final set of Main Scenario quests. 4.56 picks up where Patch[...]

credit// Square Enix We've talked about the Final Fantasy XIV real-life wedding service before, but we've got some new details to share Square Enix's partnership with Japanese wedding service Bridal Hearts will let players take part in a real-world simulacrum of the in-game Ceremony of Eternal Bonding This includes a tux and gown designed to mirror the[...]

Final Fantasy XIV Online and Sydney Gaymers are collaborating to make the MMO the first video game to march as part of a float in Sydney's Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Which is a win for Gaymers everywhere, really. The collaboration will see members of Australia's 2,600-strong Sydney Gaymer community join forces with Australian FFXIV players[...]

credit// Square Enix Final Fantasy XIV's Patch 4.55 is live today, and brings a new campaign to the 48-man PvP mode Rival Wings along with the final version of the Forbidden Lands of Eureka. The new Rival Wings map, "Hidden Gorge," sees two teams of 24 players compete to destroy the core in their opponent's base, however[...]

credit//SquareEnix During a fan Q&A segment at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Paris earlier this month, FFXIV Game Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida was asked about the next game in the mainline series While Final Fantasy XVI is hardly official yet, that hasn't stopped the fan hype train from spinning theories on what the game could be[...]

credit// Square Enix The next expansion for Final Fantasy XIV, called Shadowbringers, will be releasing this summer and pre-orders for the expansion pack will go live today at 11am PT This is the third major expansion for the award-winning MMO and will be available on July 2, 2019 both physically and digitally with Collector's and Standard Editions. Players may[...]

credit// Square Enix The Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest Paris is going on this weekend, and this morning's keynote from Executive Producer Naoki Yoshida included several bits of new information about the upcoming Shadowbringers expansion that players have been waiting on The keynote kicked off with an extended teaser trailer and moved on to reveal the gunblade using[...]

credit// Square Enix Blue Mage is the first Limited Job available in Final Fantasy XIV, which means there are some odd restrictions on what players can and cannot do with it While players can enter instanced dungeons, they can only do so through pre-formed or undersized parties Because of the way Blue Mage works, dropping BLU players[...]

The alliance raid series for Final Fantasy XIV's Stormblood cycle was titled "Return to Ivalice" and took us to some iconic locations from previous Final Fantasy games While Ivalice is a fictional country (or set of countries) in the Final Fantasy series, it is the location of only a handful of games: Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy XII, and Final Fantasy Vagrant[...]

Which isn't to say that other MMO games aren't worth the recognition, but when we thought of the best MMOs of 2018, we came up with a list of the most popular MMORPGs, and one space simulator. The nominees are: World of Warcraft The Elder Scrolls Online Black Desert Online TERA EVE Online Final Fantasy XIV And the winner is… World of Warcraft: Battle[...]

Ultimate) Kassandra (Assassin's Creed Odyssey) Atreus (God of War) Jonah Maiava (Shadow of the Tomb Raider) Nero tol Scaeva (Final Fantasy XIV) Cayde-6 (Destiny 2: Forsaken) And the winner is… Kassandra from Assassin's Creed Odyssey. If you played Assassin's Creed Odyssey with Alexios, you missed out on a lot, my friend Most of the time, choosing your protagonist's gender in a massive, open-world RPG like Mass[...]

While in-game weddings have been a thing in Final Fantasy XIV for years now, fans haven't been able to faithfully recreate the experience IRL Until now. Square Enix has partnered with a wedding hall in Kobe, Japan to create FFXIV weddings in the real world. From Twinfinite: Final Fantasy XIV features a quite advanced wedding feature, allowing players to[...]

Square Enix has announced the release date for Final Fantasy XIV's Patch 4.5 The two-part patch update will finish the Stormblood storyline and set up the 5.0 Shadowbringers plotline ahead of its launch in Summer 2019 The first part of Patch 4.5 will hit on January 8th, while the second half will follow in late[...]

Every holiday season, Final Fantasy XIV celebrates in-game with the Starlight Celebration, which is a thinly veiled Christmas stand-in complete with snowmen, presents, carols, evergreen trees lined with lights and ornaments, and even flying bears in Santa suits. This year's version of the event will be available for players through Monday, December 31st The storyline this year[...]

Final Fantasy XIV has hosted collaboration events with a number of other games in the series, though it tends to draw most from Final Fantasy XI However, a crossover between Final Fantasy XV and the MMO was announced back in June, and it is finally here While most would expect the crossover to be hosted in Final Fantasy[...]

We still aren't at the end of Final Fantasy XIV's Stormblood lifecycle, but that doesn't matter, because you don't ever need to play another game ever again Seriously This game has pretty much everything PvP, racing, crafting, in-depth lore, immersive story, live service updates, solid customer service, classy vanity items on the mog station, a companion chat[...]

One of the most requested jobs for future Final Fantasy XIV expansions has been Blue Mage, because FFXIV players just cannot get over their obsession with FFXI job classes And to be fair to them, Blue Mage is a pretty sweet job Unlike other mage classes, Blue Mages were defined by the sheer ridiculous number of spells they[...]

Square Enix revealed the latest details on the next expansion on the way for Final Fantasy XIV as we dive into the world of Shadowbringers Along with a very dark trailer and what appears to be a new brand of evil on the land that you'll need to vanquish, you will essentially become Warriors of Darkness in[...]

Starting today, Final Fantasy XIV players can get their spooky on with the annual All Saint's Wake event which will run from today until Thursday, November 1st at 8:00am PDT As always, all players are invited to take part in the limited-time event, which includes a special instanced dungeon much like last year's version of the[...]

Square Enix has released the next major patch for its acclaimed MMO, Final Fantasy XIV Online Today's patch releases game version 4.40 and is given the title Prelude in Violet As is typical of a major numbered patch in FFXIV, patch 4.4 gives players new main scenario quests, two new dungeons, a new trial and extreme trial, as[...]

This week, Square Enix revealed some of the details about their upcoming major 4.4  update to Final Fantasy XIV We have some of the main details for you below, along with some screenshots from the company as well as a proper trailer introducing the next main scenario quest The patch will kick in on September 18th,[...]

Square Enix announced today that Final Fantasy XIV has surpassed the 14 million player mark, which is 4 million players added from last year The MMO reached the new milestone just in time for the game's fifth anniversary, which is actually kind of adorable. Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida shared a special message for fans regarding[...]

Square Enix has continued their post-launch content updates for Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood with today's new Patch 4.35, which debuts the new Deep Dungeon, Heaven-on-High, the next chapter in the Hildibrand quest series, as well as new items and system updates Oh, and the launch of The Feast Regional Championship 2018, for the few dedicated PvP enthusiasts. Heaven-on-High[...]

After giving us a nice sizzle reel of the new content added in Patch 4.3 Under the Moonlight, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XIV will get a Monster Hunter World crossover this summer We don't know a whole lot about the crossover, but it's sure to be very, very interesting. This will be the first non-Square Enix game[...]

Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood's patch 4.3 Under the Moonlight is live today and brings the next chapter of the Return to Ivalice raid series, a new dungeon, trial, beast tribe quests, and main scenario quests Plus some additional PVP updates, Job balance updates, and performance actions. Today's update will add many new challenges to the game, including: New[...]