FINAL FANTASY XIV Online News

FFXIV's next event is for the Little Ladies

The next event for Final Fantasy XIV will kick off on March 14 and will see the return of Little Ladies' Day. This seasonal quest coming to one of the best MMOs on PC will only last until the end of the month, but any players who participate will nab a jaunty little crown for their own king or queen.

Final Fantasy XIV is about to hit its 6.1 update in April, which will bring big changes to the MMO - such as splitting the dreaded Praetorium dungeon into three and allowing players to get a lot more fashionable. Speaking of looking good, though, before that hits Square Enix is bringing back the Little Ladies' Day event.

While previously this event's been teamed with the Valentine's Day celebration, this time around Little Ladies' Day is a month late - the MMO only had its Halloween event in January, so it's not too much of a surprise. The late release of the Endwalker expansion in 2021 pushed a lot of things up.

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FFXIV is finally getting more glamour slots

For many MMO players, fashion is the true endgame - and that sentiment is particularly prevalent in Final Fantasy XIV. FFXIV has a robust glamour system to change up the look of your gear, but it's got one major limitation: there are only so many slots to store your outfits and glamour items. That's finally starting to change as of patch 6.1.

In patch 6.1, you'll now have 20 glamour plates to play with, up from 15. That's just enough to cover all of FFXIV's combat classes, though fashion-conscious players aren't going to be satisfied until there are enough plates for the crafters and gatherers, too. You'll also be able to use those glamour plates in far more locations - almost any sanctuary where you can earn the rested XP bonus will let you change your glamour.

The devs are also working to expand the glamour dresser (as translated by the FFXIV Discord), but that work is unlikely to arrive until patch 6.2, which is likely to launch much later in the year.

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FFXIV splits Praetorium in three, but keeps MSQ roulette

There's a bizarre legacy to the final few encounters of Final Fantasy XIV's original main story, which has left the trial Camp Westwind, and the dungeons Castrum Meridianum and Praetorium an uneasy fit with the MMORPG's modern content. As previously announced, the devs are revamping those encounters for patch 6.1, and in the most recent Live Letter, they've explained exactly what form that content will take.

Cape Westwind will no longer be an eight-player trial - instead, it's going to be a solo quest battle. If you want to see it again, you're going to need to check it out in New Game Plus. Castrum Meridianum is dropping from an eight-player dungeon to a more traditional four-player dungeon.

Praetorium gets an even bigger change, though, as it's now three separate encounters. The start of the dungeon through the Gaius battle will now be a four-player dungeon. The Ultima Weapon battle will now be a four-player trial called The Porta Decumana. And the Lahabrea fight will now be a solo quest battle.

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FFXIV update breaks the MMORPG on Steam Deck

Valve's Steam Deck is finally out, and apparently Gabe Newell loves to play Final Fantasy XIV on the system. Well, Valve's big boss won't be able to do so right now, because the latest 6.08 update for one of the best MMOs on PC renders Final Fantasy XIV unable to launch on the portable gaming PC.

As reported by user Dreamboum on ResetEra and verified by PCGamesN, you currently can't launch Final Fantasy XIV on the Steam Deck - it simply hangs on the game's logo with no way to progress further. This seems to be something to do with Square Enix making Steam account linking mandatory, as we reported last month.

In order to "further enhance account security and bolster fraud prevention measures", Final Fantasy XIV now links the player's Square Enix account with their Steam account. This update forces players on Steam to have Valve's client running alongside Final Fantasy XIV - which is causing enough problems on its own - but the new launcher doesn't appear to be compatible with the Steam Deck at all.

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FFXIV villains won't just be bigger gods after Endwalker

FFXIV's villains have been a pretty diverse group, but as a decade of storytelling concluded in Endwalker, the stakes reached reality-cracking heights. The devs behind the MMORPG have already hinted that there's going to be a gentle story reset post-Endwalker, but in a new interview, director and producer Naoki Yoshida confirms that we shouldn't expect to immediately go back to fighting bigger and badder gods.

In a Famitsu interview, Yoshida mentions that previous Final Fantasy games have had players going against personifications of the Void itself. However, as Siliconera translates, Yoshida "doesn't think continuously inflating the scale of the story and making stronger bosses is a good idea".

As detailed in live letter 69, FFXIV's next patch is called Newfound Adventure, hinting that we'll be returning to the more traditional adventurer role that player characters began with in A Realm Reborn. Writer Natsuko Ishikawa says that the devs aren't entirely done with the Endwalker plot, however, and a "smaller-scale," "complementary" story will explore some of the expansion's events in further detail.

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