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The Starlight Celebration Begins December 15!

Wintry weather has settled in across the realm, and the citizens of Eorzea have begun preparing for this year's Starlight Celebration. The time has come to deck the halls with festive decorations and delight others with heartfelt surprises─who will you remember during this season of giving?

Event Duration

From Friday, December 15, 2023 at 12:00 a.m. (PST) / 8:00 (GMT) / 19:00 (AEDT)
to Sunday, December 31, 2023 at 6:59 a.m. (PST) / 14:59 (GMT) / Monday, January 1, 2024 at 1:59 (AEDT)

How to Participate

Begin the quest "Blue Starlight" by speaking to the Bearded Lady in Old Gridania (X:10.2 Y:9.4).

* Players must be level 15 and above to start the quest.

Rewards

* Certain items available during previous iterations of the event can be obtained via the Starlight supplier.

Visit the special site for more details.

Anyone can now buy FF14’s pizza emote, two years after you had to order $15 of delivery food to get it (maybe)

Two years after Final Fantasy XIV launched a pizza-eating emote to a surprising amount of controversy, anyone can pop along to the MMO’s in-game shop and buy it for under a fiver.

The FFXIV pizza emote controversy looks to be finally coming to an end, as Square Enix has released the eat pizza emote onto the MMO store two years after the GrubHub limited-time event saw many players buying meals only to be told they won't be getting the emote.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV Has Been Nominated for The Game Awards!

We're honored that FINAL FANTASY XIV has been nominated for The Game Awards in the following categories:

Best Ongoing Game
Best Community Support[/h2]

We wouldn't be here without our passionate community! Thank you for your continued support! 💖

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FFXIV prepares for Dawntrail with cloud data center tests

FFXIV is going to start testing cloud data centers with a stress test this month, likely a result of the upcoming Dawntrail release in 2024. Any subscribers that have bought the game can participate in the cloud tests, but note that the character SE gives you will be deleted, and there's no reward for playing on there either.