Category: FFXIV News

Susan Calloway AMA today at Noon PDT

Susan Calloway will be holding an AMA (Ask Me Anything) at Reddit today starting at Noon PDT. The link to the actual thread is not live yet, but this post on the FFXIV Subreddit will update with it as soon as it goes live, and we will update this post with the information as well. If you have time, go check it out, ask Susan a question about her career, how ,she became involved with FFXIV, her favorite color, or whatever burning question you may have for her, and support the FFXIV community. Tell her Phoenix Down Radio sent ya! 🙂

 

Update: The AMA thread is live!

Duty Commenced PVP Special announced

The Duty Commenced team will be hosting a PVP special – “Culling Time” this Friday, March 18th starting at 3PM PDT at twitch.tv/finalfantasyxiv. They will be playing live from the Sargatanas server and queuing into The Feast, so if you’re on the Aether data center, keep your eyes out for Camate, Zhexos, and Bayohne in your parties.

PlayStation VR Pricing announced – what does this mean for FFXIV VR Experience?

Yesterday Sony announced the pricing for the PlayStation VR headset. The base unit will run $399 and will require the PlayStation Eye camera for PS4 to handle the motion and positioning controls. With this announcement, the major 3 players in the VR game, Occulus Rift ($600), HTC Vive ($800), and Sony PSVR ($400) have all announced pricing. With all this said, will this impact whether or not you play Final Fantasy XIV in Virtual Reality? What are some of your thoughts on this?

New Fat Cat and Goobbue plushies coming soon!

From Lead Developer M’s blog post on the JP Lodestone, new plushies based on the Fat Cat and Goobbue minions are on the way! These items will be arriving in SE’s Japanese store in May, and available to NA and EU shortly after that in June. They are $39.99 and available for preorder NOW!

Fat Cat Plush

Goobbue Plush

 

All Worlds Maintenance scheduled for Patch 3.22

There will be an All Worlds Maintenance scheduled tonight, March 16th at 11 PM PDT. This maintenance will bring us Patch 3.22, which contains fixes/adjustments to The Feast. Yoshi-P explains the issues in his forum post here.

Full details on the maintenance are available at the Lodestone.

 

Final Fantasy XIV Dev Diary Chapter 3: Visual Design

The third chapter of the Final Fantasy XIV Developer’s Diary video series has been released on YouTube. This edition focuses on visual design and implementation in the game, and how the team comes up with its ideas. Check it out!

Free Login Campaign returns to Final Fantasy XIV

If you’ve played Final Fantasy XIV in the past, or have taken a break from your subscription, now is your chance to come back and check out everything Patch 3.2 has to offer. For the next month, starting 3/14 and running through 4/14, you can sign in to your FFXIV account and play for up to 4 days. To qualify, your account must meet the following criteria:

  • Users who have previously purchased and registered FINAL FANTASY XIV.
  • All registered services accounts are set as inactive during the campaign period.
  • Registered service account must have been inactive for at least thirty days.

Full details can be found here.

Episode 14 – Red Hot Chille Mages!

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We are joined by Chille from PlayStation Unchained this week. We talk about what we would like to see for new jobs, and how to catch up in patch 3.2.

 

Hatching-Tide coming soon!

Eorzea’s next seasonal event, Hatching-Tide, starts March 15th! Lots of new seasonal items will be available, as well as a certain song-that-must-not-be-named (just kidding…) Pa-Paya will be available for the Orchestrion! From the developer’s blog:

“Eggs have been strewn about the city-states for decoration, and adventurers can quickly feel the spirit of the festival with the brilliant and pastel colors.

This year Jihli Aliapoh will once again make a grand appearance, and word has it that there will be some kind of egg-citing mini-game!”

The event site will be going live on Monday, March 14th will all the event info.

Producer Live Letter 28 scheduled for March 26th

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The 28th FFXIV Letter from the Producer Live has been announced, and is scheduled to air March 26th at 19:00 JST (6AM EST/3AM PST). Yoshi-P will be answering various questions asked on the Official forums, and will have lead UI artist Hiroshi Minagawa as his guest. {Please look forward to it!}

Links to the various channels will be provided as soon as they are available.