17 articles — 3 patch notes, 14 news
After years of insisting every player experience the full story from A Realm Reborn onward, Square Enix is finally reconsidering. Two potential solutions are in the works, with one possibly arriving alongside the Evercold expansion in January.
The Occult Crescent expands northward with a new eight-player field area, a doubled knowledge level cap, and the final chapter of the Phantom Weapons questline.
A swipe-based dating plugin launched inside Final Fantasy 14, and the community's response has been less about romance and more about the existential threat to the game's entire modding ecosystem.
The teleport arrow panels in Dancing Mad (Ultimate) no longer fling you in random directions. Square Enix quietly fixed one of the most frustrating bugs in FF14's hardest content.
The first team to clear FF14's new Kefka-themed Ultimate raid didn't stream the kill, and the community is tearing itself apart over whether that should count.
Kefka's new Ultimate fight in FF14 tricks raiders with a fake "Complete" screen and a vanishing loot chest. The world-first race has never been this chaotic.
Dancing Mad (Ultimate) is here, alongside new custom deliveries and Cosmic Exploration content on Auxesia.
Final Fantasy 14's community is buzzing with renewed energy after Fan Fest, even though not a single Evercold feature has actually shipped. Promises and tone, it turns out, can be enough.
A Final Fantasy 14 player used rows of Everkeep Sofas and the game's expanded furniture limit to build an uncanny recreation of Pragmata's shelter hub inside their in-game house.
A patch 7.5 dungeon boss with zero dialogue and no loot worth chasing has become Final Fantasy 14's biggest meme in months. Square Enix is already in on it.
FFXIV's Patch 7.5 Trail to the Heavens is live today, bringing new main scenario quests, the Unmaking trial, and some long-overdue housing upgrades.
During a stage Q&A at FFXIV Fan Fest 2026, a fan unknowingly guessed the weapon for one of Evercold's new jobs right in front of director Naoki Yoshida. He confirmed it happened, then refused to say which one.
Christopher Koji Fox's AI-generated images during a Fan Fest lyrics panel killed the room's energy and sparked immediate backlash online.
Naoki Yoshida told FFXIV players at Fan Fest to start saving for a PS5. With the cheapest model now $600, that's a bitter pill for anyone still on last-gen hardware.
Square Enix is bringing FFXIV to Switch 2 in August, but Nintendo is requiring a separate subscription to play. Existing subscribers get 50% off, but that's still a second bill for a game you already pay for.
Want FFXIV's exclusive Eat Chicken emote? You'll need to buy a Jollibee chicken bucket or a Moogle hoodie to get it.
Square Enix is restricting what limited jobs can do in FF14 right before Beastmaster arrives, and the community is not impressed.