FINAL FANTASY XIV Online News

Someone has already cleared one of FFXIV Endwalker's Raid encounters solo

It's been just over a month since the release of the Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Raid's first tier Pandaemonium: Asphodelos and a Warrior player has already beaten the first major boss encounter of it solo - which took them over an hour to do.

While the eagerly-anticipated Endwalker expansion finally launched last month to much acclaim, especially from us, although it was initially lacking the much advertised new high-tier Raid, Pandaemonium. This will be rolled out slowly but the Raid's beginning part, Asphodelos, came out just before Christmas - with the tougher Savage difficulty hitting earlier this month.

The various Circles of this Raid are a tough challenge for a group of players - the whole reason Raids exist - but some players have already beaten The First Circle of the Raid in single-player. It's not a quick thing to do, either - the current record is held by player Aka_Ada, who beat it solo as a Warrior in just over an hour with a lot of preparation time.

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All Saints' Wake Begins January 20!

All Saints' Wake has begun in Eorzea! To celebrate the festivities, the city-states and residential districts will be decorated for the occasion and the Continental Circus will be making their appearance once more!

Event Duration

From Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 12:00 a.m. (PST) / 8:00 (GMT)
to Wednesday, February 2, 2022 at 6:59 a.m. (PST) / 14:59 (GMT)

How to Participate

Begin the quest "All Clowns' Wake" by speaking to the Adventurers' Guild Investigator in Old Gridania (X:10.4 Y:8.4).

*Players must be level 15 and above to start the quest.
*Players must first complete the quest "It's Probably Pirates."

Rewards

Visit the special site for more details.

You'll be able to buy FFXIV again later this month

A month after Final Fantasy XIV was pulled from sale thanks to the Endwalker expansion being just too darn popular, the team is finally planning to put one of the best MMOs on PC back on sale on digital storefronts - in less than two weeks, in fact.

Back in December the Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker expansion finally launched to much acclaim, including from ourselves, with many new and returning players flooding in to the venerable MMO to experience it - so many, in fact, that it caused a lot of server authentication errors and increased queue times to a ridiculous degree.

Things got so bad that Square Enix was forced to suspend sales of Final Fantasy XIV altogether - undoubtedly costing the publisher a lot of new customers in the process. Well, finally producer and director Naoki Yoshida has given a date for the MMO's return to storefronts: January 25, 2022, at 12 AM PST / 3 AM EST / 8 AM GMT / 5 PM JST.

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FFXIV All Saints' Wake release time - Halloween event finally starts this week

After a long delay thanks to the highly-anticipated release of the Endwalker expansion, Final Fantasy XIV's Halloween event is finally ready to kick off - in January, the new spooky month. We've got the full FFXIV All Saints' Wake release time and date below, and you won't have to wait much longer to get that clown costume.

Final Fantasy XIV's ridiculously-long delayed Halloween event, All Saints' Wake 2022 (2021?), will finally release this Thursday, January 20, at 12 AM PST / 3 AM EST / 8 AM GMT and will last until February 2 at 6:59 AM PST / 9:59 AM EST / 2:59 PM GMT - so you'll have just under two weeks to collect all the rewards.

Given that All Saints' Wake is the Final Fantasy MMO's annual Halloween affair it was expected that the event would, of course, take place in October - however, the big delay to the Endwalker expansion meant a lot of planned events got pushed back too. The Christmas/New Year celebration got away with it, but Halloween was pushed all the way to January.

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Square Enix will start selling Final Fantasy XIV again this month

Popularity, I have learned from American teen television shows, isn't all it's cracked up to be. While Square Enix haven't been bombed by the local mafioso, joined a murderous D&D cult, or discovered their dad is a serial killer and they too have the serial killer genes (thanks, Riverdale!), they did find such overwhelming success with Final Fantasy XIV that they temporarily stopped selling the MMORPG. They couldn't expand servers quickly enough to meet demand, see, leading to login queues and frustration. But now things are settling enough to to start selling it again, and they have big plans to expand servers.