The NA Community team will be going live with the next episode of Duty Commenced on Friday, April 8th, at 6PM ET / 3PM PT at their Twitch channel. They will be discussing Producer Live Letter 28, an all new Lore Lowdown, and will have a bunch of giveaways. Be sure to tune in!
Category: FFXIV News
FFXIV goes eco-friendly with new ChocoGo ride-share services!
I love April Fool’s Day, but I really want a chocobo dammit!
Patch 3.25 is live!
Patch 3.25 is now live and ready for download, and patch notes are available on the Lodestone. A few of the additions and changes:
The next stage of the Anima weapon is unlocked.
Updates to Chocobo racing have been added
Chocobo Challenge races, reduced training manual costs, new abilities, increased MGP and EXP
A number of updates and changes to The Feast have been made
Additional Echo has been added to Gordias Savage
Episode 15 – Garuda Boobies!
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If you missed catching Episode 15 live, fear not! It is now available in podcast form!
We enter Spoiler territory, discussing the 3.2 Main Story Questline in depth this week. We also go over the news from the Producer Live Letter 28, and end up discussing organic condiments??
Official PLL 28 Translated thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/287361-Letter-from-the-Producer-LIVE-Part-XXVIII-Q-A-Update-Thread
All Worlds Maintenance for Patch 3.25:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/ca7874c6c3624791909183a2f2d4d89adef44138
All Worlds Maintenance for 3.25 scheduled for Monday, March 28th
Get ready everyone, Patch 3.25 is on its way, bringing with it new quests, the next step in the Anima weapon series, and 2 weeks later, Season 1 of The Feast.
From the Lodestone:
In order to accompany Patch 3.25, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds at the time below. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XIV will be unavailable.
* The World Transfer Service will be suspended 15 minutes before the maintenance, and will be unavailable until maintenance has ended.
* Reservations for Ceremonies of Eternal Bonding cannot be made from the time maintenance ends until Apr. 1, 2016 2:00 a.m. (PDT).
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.
[Date & Time]
Mar. 28, 2016 8:00 p.m. to Mar. 29, 2016 3:00 a.m. (PDT)
* Completion time is subject to change.
[Affected Worlds]
All Worlds
Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXVIII Q&A!
Missed out on last nights Live Letter?! Don’t worry! We got your back! Check out the Q&A they went through. Ton’s of awesome stuff!
Click here for the Q&A from the Live Letter!
And don’t forget! We go live TONIGHT with Phoenix Down Radio at 6:30PST/9:30EST over on our Twitch page!
FFXIV Player account bans
A number of players have turned to Reddit to try and find out why their user accounts have been banned by SE for “Cheating and Botting” but have not done anything. (Example 1, Example 2, Example 3) SE also just posted a notice about activation issues with software purchased through unauthorized 3rd party sellers, specifically purchasing the Steam version through any retailer other than Steam/Valve. Is it possible that these two issues are related somehow, and they linked a number of RMT accounts with purchases of software from other sources? Hopefully very few innocent players were caught up in this dragnet and this issue can be resolved without much problem.
Next episode of Phoenix Down Radio airs March 26th
Episode 15 of Phoenix Down Radio goes live on Twitch this Friday, March 26th at 9:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM PT. Come join us as we discuss Producer Live Letter 28, go over about game news, and go through an in-depth analysis of the Patch 3.2 story line and what is to come in upcoming patches. THERE WILL BE SPOILERS, so consider yourself warned! 🙂
FFXIV / PSO2 crossover event confirmed
Japanese sci-fi MMO Phantasy Star Online 2 will soon be invaded by Elder Primal Odin from FFXIV, and its heroes go into battle with FFXIV-themed weapons. According to a live event held recently, PSO2 will get a bit of Eorzea this summer.
It was not mentioned at this event if FFXIV will play host to any PSO2-themed events, but we may learn more about this during the Producer Live Letter this weekend. {Please look forward to it!}
Yoshi-P Responds to Novice Network feedback
We have an English translation to FFXIV Producer/Director Yoshi-P’s response to player feedback on the new Novice Network implemented in Patch 3.2. The Official Forums post is rather lengthy, but a quick TL;DR version is as follows:
New Adventurer status will remain until players complete MSQ “Before the Fall” and have played over 168 hours OR have removed the status manually.
Mentors will be removed from the Novice network chat when they go AFK to allow for other mentors to actively participate
The Auto-Join feature will default to Off for mentors in 3.25
Considering different mentor types, eg. DoH/DoL, PvP
Possibility of new players to automatically join or display a confirmation to join the Novice network
The post goes into greater detail on the discussion that the development team has been having regarding this new feature, and hopefully it can become the place where new players can receive the assistance in the game that it was intended to be.