FINAL FANTASY XIV Online News

FFXIV player literally runs across Eorzea in two hours using Ring Fit Adventure controls

SuperLouis64 has built a well-deserved pile of internet fame by playing games with wholly-inappropriate controllers. He's played Call of Duty with Donkey Konga bongos, beaten Dark Souls 3's final boss with literal bananas, and now he's doing wild things in Final Fantasy XIV. He's played Dancer with a Kinect and played Astrologian with a Yu-Gi-Oh duel disc. Now he's literally running across Eorzea using Ring Fit Adventure controls.

This setup essentially translates data from the gyros in the Switch joy-cons into normal controller inputs. So as far as FFXIV knows, you're just using an Xbox controller - there's no mod to the game itself, and thus no issue with the terms of service. Literally running lets you run in-game, and doing a squat registers as a down press on the d-pad, so you can map that to whatever skill you find most useful.

Using the freshly-rigged controls, SuperLouis64 took about two hours to run all across Eorzea - from Idyllshire, past Old Gridania, down south to Ul'Dah, then looping around La Noscea before completing the run to Gyr Abania.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker Special Site Updated

The special site has been updated with introductions of the new threats from Anima and the Magus Sisters, as well as new details regarding the Myths of the Realm alliance raid series, the Pandæmonium high-difficulty raid series, and small-scale PvP.

Additionally, the “Media” page has also been updated with new illustrations and CG artwork.

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Moogle Treasure Trove - The Hunt for Lore Commences

It gives us great pleasure to announce the return of the Moogle Treasure Trove! Collect irregular tomestones of lore by completing specific duties and exchange them with Itinerant Moogles for a host of treasures, including accessories and mounts.

For the 7th 14-Hour Broadcast, the community teams from Japan, Europe, and North America successfully tackled the “Blue Mage Challenge” to learn 104 spells, thereby filling Itinerant Moogles’ inventories with Inferno Jackets ripe for the trading. Seek out those tomestones and claim one for your own!

Head over to the special site for more details.

Final Fantasy creator beats FFXIV: ARR in two weeks, Heavensward in two days

Close to 18 years after leaving Square Enix, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has been trying his hand at one of the most popular games in the series since his departure, leading to some rather wholesome content on Twitter. It turns out, though, that Sakaguchi isn't messing around when it comes to catching up in Final Fantasy XIV, as he's completed the Heavensward expansion in just two days.

As spotted by Fanbyte, Sakaguchi tweeted about starting Heavensward on October 12 before updating everyone that he rolled credits on October 15. To put that into perspective, he first started tweeting about beginning the game on September 27, which means it took him around 16 days to finish A Realm Reborn. That's some serious improvement in the grind. Sakaguchi isn't letting FFXIV dominate too much of his time, though, as he's taken breaks to do things like attend his daughter's wedding.

It's still wholesome, though, to see that Sakaguchi is making his way through the MMO. He initially started playing ahead of a special Tokyo Game Show talk with FFXIV director Naoki Yoshida about the appeal and potential of RPGs. Even though the event has come and gone, he still hung around to see what the hype behind Heavensward is about.

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Breaking Brick Mountains Returns!

The collaboration event with Dragon Quest X, Breaking Brick Mountains, is returning to Eorzea on 19 October! Don’t miss this opportunity to do battle with gargantuan golems and earn rich rewards!

If you’ve previously completed the event, you can replay the quests via the seasonal event replay feature*!

* This event is identical to the one previously held.
* We highly recommend learning more about the seasonal event replay feature on the collaboration special site.

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