FINAL FANTASY XIV Online News

FFXIV devs update harassment rules, will issue "in-game restraining orders" against stalkers

The Final Fantasy XIV devs want to do more to combat stalking and harassment, and it seems one of the steps in that process has begun today. The developers have greatly expanded the wording of the rules around harassment, and made clear that stalking can result in an "in-game restraining order" against offending players. Violations may also be penalised if they're discovered through public in-game communications or a stream.

Across the board, the rules are largely about consent. Stalking is defined in terms like "persistently moving to locations where someone is, despite being asked to stop the behavior", or "creating new characters to message someone who has blacklisted you, despite being asked to stop the behavior".

Once reported, stalking players "will be penalized, and we may contact the victim and obtain their consent to issue an in-game restraining order. Should we confirm that a player has attempted to contact the victim through any means after being issued an in-game restraining order, a more severe penalty will be imposed."

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Upcoming Changes to Scrips and Allagan Tomestones

Patch 6.0 will see several changes to Allagan tomestones and scrips, including the removal of Allagan tomestones of phantasmagoria, as well as red crafters’ and gatherers’ scrips.

Players carrying any of these currencies are advised to exchange them before the start of Patch 6.0 maintenance.

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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.

Visit the special site.

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.