Final Fantasy XIV

Bit weird how the fancy one is for display purposes only and non-functional. But hey, you get a full Xbox with it, and what else would you use your X-account for nowadays except to spam shit like this?

Coming March 14. The mount is a bit lame imo.

Game pass ultimate subscribers also can get the Starter Edition for free, for a time.

The FF15 crossover event returns. According to the page it's the exact same event as in 2019 and 2021, so this is mostly for those who had not done it before.

If you have not, the principal reward is a 4-seater mount:

As one of the (probably few) FFXIV players who actually has access to an Xbox Series X, it is a bit disappointing that there is no way to participate in the beta.

Hope the people who have an Xbox and are interested in FFXIV but didn't pick it up yet for any other platform enjoy the beta. All 10 of them.

If you have not done it in the years before (it's the exact same event, it's not like the seasonals) the FFXI crossover event The Maiden's Rhapsody is coming up again.

Sorry, forgot to post these when they were going up, here are the full patch notes for 6.55 including the changes to frontlines balance and to the ice map.

This is from a summarization of an interview. The original interview (linked in the article) is interesting, but the highlights are that he doesn't feel like he's in any situation where he might get removed - which makes sense, seeing how big FFXIV has become in the MMORPG space and hence how much good marketing it provides for Square.

From the Fanfest keynote, the 6.55 update will come with a full 24-hour downtime while they work on replacing the JP server infrastructure.

After the disappointment that was the Viper, any bets on how tepid the other job will be? 😛

I jest of course, quite hyped, although I was also say that Yoshi P's excitement over the mere fact that a job sticks his two swords together to a swordstaff for their 2 minute buff was... weird. 😅 Maybe it's some breakthrough in how the game engine works that I cannot appreciate and characters could not usually have two animation-sets, but to me it was just a minor graphics effect and little else.