The Latest News and Announcements for May 2024

The Dawntrail media tour is in full swing, and to kick it off, this week’s Letter from the Producer Live included our first detailed look at the job updates coming with the upcoming expansion. English translator Aimi Tokutake joined Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida and global community producer Toshio Murouchi for the five-hour bilingual presentation that began with a new job action trailer to go along with all the job news. They covered all 21 Final Fantasy XIV jobs, including the new DPS jobs included in Dawntrail, Viper and Pictomancer. Yoshida reiterated, however, that this is just a preliminary look and that more details will be revealed as the media tour continues. So, if you’r...
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Square Enix announced disappointing financial results for the fiscal year ending in March 2024 that will shake up their business and corporate structure as they look to bounce back. This new medium-term business plan is expected to define its business and content policies for the next three years and includes a dramatic shift to multi-platform support for its stable of established intellectual properties, including Final Fantasy. So, how did we get here? On April 30, Square Enix sent out an investor letter warning them of significant “content abandonment losses” as a result of canceled projects not aligning with their updated business model. This is despite a 3.8% sales increase thanks ...
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Otakon 2024 in Washington DC is happening August 2-4 and this year's lineup of special guests should make attending a no-brainer for ardent Final Fantasy fans.  Otakon is an annual convention that celebrates all things Asian pop culture. This includes anime, manga, movies, music, video games, and more. Final Fantasy being an intellectual property of Square Enix, a Japanese video game publishing and development company, means the iconic series fits right in. Currently, 10 voice actors involved in various Final Fantasy franchises are confirmed to be participating in this year’s DC Otakon and here they are.   Top row: Ben Starr (Clive) and Nina Yndis (Benedikta) from Final Fantasy XV...
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The Final Fantasy VII The First Solider storyline continues with Chapter 7 “The Boy and the Hero” and Chapter 8 “The Hero Sephiroth” following a May 15 update to Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis. The update is expected to go live at 7:00 p.m. PDT on mobile devices and Steam. The Final Fantasy VII First Soldier storyline serves as an origin story for the infamous silver-haired, Masamune-wielding villain. It chronicles the events of teenage Sephiroth’s first mission as he leads a survey team of three other SOLDIERs through the Rhadore region in search of potential mako reactor sites. Based on today’s announcement, the next two chapters should bring us much closer to conventional perceptions of Se...
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We’re 55 days away from the July 2 launch of Dawntrail and the Final Fantasy XIV team has just announced another seasonal event to keep players occupied. The Make It Rain Campaign is headed back to the Gold Saucer on May 15, bringing the fabled Kappa Suit as a reward. Players can earn 50% more MGP during the Make It Rain: March On Imps Campaign that kicks off next week and continues until May 31. The long-awaited Kappa Suit will make its glorious debut and is a neon green abomination with a beak that’s loosely based on an imp in popular Japanese folklore. This odd, yet special, glamour was specifically requested by the creator of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, who wore the costume during...
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Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade and Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion are 50 percent off in the Humble Bundle store. That’s a lot of great gaming for a great price. Add in Humble Bundle donating a portion of each sale to charity and you have even more reason to jump into the Final Fantasy VII Remake bandwagon if you've been waiting. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade includes Final Fantasy VII Remake, the 2020 predecessor to Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. It also includes the game’s Yuffie-centric DLC INTERmission and a bunch of in-game bonus content like special summoning materia and armor sets. All of this is available in the Humble Bundle Store down from its normal price of $70 to ju...
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Patch 1.32 is arriving on May 9 and will fix the New Game+ bug stopping some Final Fantasy XVI players from progressing through the “A Chance Encounter” main scenario quest. The Final Fantasy XVI team announced the existence of the bug exactly one week ago today. The bug may occur when players begin New Game+ from some game locations and choose to skip the prologue. If affected, in-game party members become invisible and progress in the main scenario quest, “A Chance Encounter,” becomes impossible. While there were a couple of suggested workarounds impacted players could try like restarting New Game+ and not skipping the prologue, the development team prioritized finding a solution and patch...
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Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida, aka Yoshi-P, has posted an update on the revamped Dawntrail benchmark that will replace the first one launched last month. May 23 is the tentative release date for the new benchmark but Yoshi-P notes it is not a confirmed date and it could end up launching later that week. The lengthy Lodestone post also went over the reworks the development team has been implementing based on player feedback from the April benchmark’s character creator. On the docket first was fixing the environmental parameters that didn’t reflect Dawntrail’sgraphical updates and were impacting character appearance. According to the post, elements like lighting, positioning of ligh...
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Hello everyone and welcome to another posting about what we have been doing behind the scenes here at Final Fantasy Info.com. Samina has been diligently gathering a lot of nice information about a lot of different things which we have been storing in a “To Do” queue just waiting to get up on the site as different media get their sections created and the appropriate page template made to display all this nice information, I would say right now there are about a dozen sets of information in the queue just waiting to get published. Unfortunately, most of that waiting is due to a lack of time on my (Matthew) part. Last month saw the finishing of my school semester in college so there was a lot o...
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We’re 62 days away from the July 2 launch of Dawntrail and server congestion continues to be a primary concern for the Final Fantasy XIV team. Today, they announced the creation of Shadow, a new European Data Center that’ll be ready for the summer launch. The new data center will include three new worlds appropriately themed after the 2019 Shadowbringers expansion. There’s Innocence, Pixie, and Titania. The FFXIV team will be monitoring login congestion carefully to determine the opening dates of the Shadow Data Center worlds. While you may see the Shadow Data Center following an upcoming May 7 update, none of the worlds will be accessible until the data center’s official launch which will b...
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