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FFXIV Adds Separate Zone Instances To Help Day One Endwalker Server Congestion

Ah, expansion launch day. When Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker begins its early access on December 3, everyone will be rushing to get a headstart on the walk to the end. Imagine thousands of folks...

Yes, Those Familiar Babylon's Fall Assets are From Final Fantasy XIV

If you’ve tried out one of the several Babylon’s Fall beta sessions, you may have noticed some of the armor sets look familiar. That’s because they’re from Final Fantasy XIV, and dir...

Academia Eorzea Manga is the First Step Toward The FFXIV Dating Sim We All Want

During the last Live Letter from the Producer, Square Enix revealed a new spinoff manga for Final Fantasy XIV. The title was romanized during the stream as Academia Eorzea, while the Jap...

FFXIV is Resetting Your Mid-Level Job EXP Progress in Endwalker

Final Fantasy XIV is reining in numerical values throughout the game, and that means you’ll spot some differences in things like HP pools, attacks, and consumables. While that’s all fine and...

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Has Been Delayed Until December

Endwalker, the much-anticipated Final Fantasy XIV expansion originally set for November of this year, has been delayed by two weeks, revealed during the latest Live Letter from the P...

Final Fantasy Creator Hironobu Sakaguchi Finishes Shadowbringers, Laughs at Your Backlog

We have reached the end of our journey, friends. Well, someone has — and we’ve been there to witness it. Hironobu Sakaguchi, the director of the original Final Fantasy and lead developer behind...

Final Fantasy Creator Storms Into FFXIV Shadowbringers

Can’t stop, won’t stop. Hironobu Sakaguchi, the director behind the original Final Fantasy and the steward for the series in its earlier iterations, has been playing Final Fantasy XIV si...

How to Unlock Rank 11 With Your FFXIV Chocobo & Raise the Cap

Hitting Rank 11 with your FFXIV Chocobo isn’t exactly an easy task. The game does very little to explain the process at all. Not to mention, if you started playing a while back and are just r...

Final Fantasy Creator Steamrolls FFXIV Heavensward in Two Days

The past and present of Final Fantasy have finally met. Hironobu Sakaguchi, director and co-writer of the first Final Fantasy, started playing Final Fantasy XIV for the first time...

FFXIV Lightning Crystal Farming - The Best Way to Farm Lightning Crystals

FFXIV Lightning Crystals are an important part of any crafter’s collection. Though they’re not as easy (nor fun) to acquire as they are to lose. That’s because crystals, shards, and clusters...

FFXIV: Endwalker Expansion Gets More Tomestone & Scrip Changes

FFXIV players better spend those Tomestones and Scrips soon. Some of the old currencies are being replaced with Endwalker, as the expansion cycle comes for our virtual wallets once a...

FFXIV Endwalker Preview: It Will Be Easier to Level Up Main and Secondary Jobs

As we wait in the gulf between now and the release of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, one of the biggest side hustles for most of us is leveling another job. Alongside my Relic grind, I personall...

FFXIV Endwalker Preview: How Numerical Changes Will Impact the Next Decade

In order for the development team to support its next decade, Final Fantasy XIV will be undergoing significant changes in its battle system formulas. As of Endwalker, values will be do...

FFXIV Endwalker Preview: The New Trusts Make a Single-Player Future Possible

During our time previewing Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, we got to run the new Tower of Zot dungeon with other players. This is usually how I prefer to play, especially since the MMORPG’s commu...

Why Are People So Horny for Video Game Villains?

As Dark Helmet once said, “Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.” Perhaps nowhere is this more true than in the ferocity with which people are rampantly horny for villainous characters in ga...

Final Fantasy Creator Starts Playing FFXIV, Names A Lalafell After Himself

Truly, we have come full circle. 34 years ago, a young Square programmer named Hironobu Sakaguchi introduced the world to Final Fantasy. The RPG became an instant hit, spawning the legendary mu...

Great British Bake Off Star Kim-Joy Makes the Cutest Cake to Celebrate FFXIV’s 8th Anniversary

To celebrate the eighth anniversary of Final Fantasy XIV — the critically acclaimed MMORPG with a free trial up to level 60 that covers the base game, A Realm Reborn, and the first e...

The Best Final Fantasy Soundtrack of the Last Decade Is Now on Spotify

The best Final Fantasy XIV soundtrack of the last decade — “Shadowbringers: Final Fantasy XIV” — has finally made its way to Spotify.

FFXIV Lead Story Designer Banri Oda Reveals New Story and Lore Details

In a new interview with 4Gamer, Final Fantasy XIV lead story designer Banri Oda answered questions about details both large and obscure.

One of the Best Antagonists of Final Fantasy XIV Returns in Patch 5.5

On April 2, the Final Fantasy XIV team held the 63rd Letter from the Producer Live broadcast, which was dedicated to properly teasing the game’s next patch. As previously announced, Patch 5.5...