Category: Final Fantasy XIV News

The Final Fantasy XIV site has been updated with a note to let players know that a collaborative event is going to be held in game to celebrate Final Fantasy XI’s 15th Anniversary. Called the Maiden’s Rhapsody, the event begins today. During the event, players will discover what brought Iroha to Eorzea and can score the Amatsu equipment set to match.

The Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone has been updated with a brief peek at a pair of new features coming with the v4.15 update that is “right around the corner”. Rival Wings is a new PvP encounter “on the forgotten fringes of the Dravanian hinterlands”. Judging by the small image provided, it shows a lot of action going on in the center of the map and that “a furious struggle for territorial supremacy awaits”.

The annual Final Fantasy XIV event, All Saints’ Wake, is scheduled to kick off on October 19th and run through November 1st. Players will be able to participate in special events starting with the “It’s Probably Pirates” quest. From the official literature: “Godriquelain is suspicious about the Continental Circus’s true motives. Speak with him outside Mih Khetto’s Amphitheatre to see how you can be of aid.”

Final Fantasy XIV Game Director Naoki Yoshida has taken to the game’s forums to apologize to players for the recent snafu with the patch 4.1 housing area of Shirogane. He states that he and his team have have “received a great deal of feedback regarding this newest addition to housing”.

Final Fantasy XIV has been updated with v4.1: The Legend Returns. The patch contains a number of new quests, a treasure hunt, a new housing area, improvements to PvP, new items, guildleves, and other, smaller updates. In addition, several performance updates have been applied as well as bugs fixed.

In a new interview at GamesIndustry.biz, Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida has revealed some interesting tidbits about the game’s player base and its overall health. While no firm current subscription numbers are stated, Yoshida does say that “our active subscribers is the largest it’s ever been”. Additionally, the launch of Stormblood saw FFXIV cruise over the 10M player mark, only 2M shy of World of Warcraft at its highest ebb, though this number also includes free trial players.

The Final Fantasy XIV site has been updated with some new information about patch 4.1. Several sections received an update including The Minstrel’s Ballad: Shinryu’s Domain, updated PvP information in Rival Wings where players “control mighty machines in large-scale war games”, and the Still Further Hildibrand Adventures.

In tomorrow’s second half of our Final Fantasy XIV interview with Square Enix’s Koji Fox, we’ll learn that the team wanted players to have a more “adult” experience while playing the game and that adding drugs and booze as a way to unwind was integral to providing that.

The Final Fantasy XIV community has done an amazing thing for disaster relief in raising $21,000. According to a post on the FFXIV forum, “several FFXIV content creators teamed up to host a 12-hour community event to raise funds for hurricane relief charity and managed to raise over $21,000. Over 300 players participated creating new characters in Siren and even a GM joined in.”

Final Fantasy XIV is celebrating another birthday with the return of The Rising annual event. Players will be able to take part in celebratory events from August 26th through September 14th. Rewards include Wind-Up Lyse, Wind-Up Gosetsu, two orchestration rolls, a Rising Balloon and a Magicked Prism (Flowers).