28 Jan 2014
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Dev Blog: Osaka FATE Complete!

Greetings, everyone! Bayohne here, with a fun report from the ever secretive Project Manager M! The team held their first live event of the new year in Osaka, Japan this past weekend and Project Manager M was kind enough to point out just how much fun she had!
16 Jan 2014
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Developers’ Blog: Attack of the 50-Fulm Woman

Greetings, everyone! Bayohne here with an exciting look at the upcoming collaboration events visiting Eorzea soon! You may recall that we announced details on the FINAL FANTASY XI / DRAGON QUEST X / FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn collaboration at the 2013 Tokyo Game Show. Well, we’re almost ready to launch the FFXIV portion of the
14 Jan 2014
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Developers’ Blog: Yoshi-P’s European (Work) Vacation

Greetings, everyone! Shhh… We can’t type too loudly because Bayohne just stepped away and we here on the European Community Team took the opportunity to hijack the English blog! You see, Yoshi-P recently travelled to Europe to attend meetings in the London office and we thought it’d be nice to let you know what went
9 Jan 2014
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Developers’ Blog: Free Up Your Weekend

Greetings, everyone! This weekend FINAL FANTASY XIV will be hosting a Free Login Weekend! Starting from Saturday, January 11th at 12:00 a.m. (PST), any inactive FFXIV service account holder (whether they be from version 1.0 or have registered A Realm Reborn) will be able to log in and play for free! We’re very excited for
22 Dec 2013
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Developers’ Blog: Stay Frosty, My Friends

Greetings, everyone! Have you visited the city-states lately? If you have, I’m sure you’ve noticed… things are a lot chillier! That’s right, the Starlight Celebration has begun!     Limsa Lominsans are getting into the season!   However, Ul’dah won’t be outdone!   Adventurers around the realm have begun dressing up in their finest Starlight attire!  
20 Nov 2013
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Easy Doze It

Greetings, everyone! *Yaaaaawn* Bayohne here, back with another…zzz…update for you all. As you know, patch 2.1 ushers in the release of the free company housing system that adventurers around the realm have been anxiously awaiting. Of course, no free company headquarters would be complete without a multitude of beds for their members to relax on
13 Nov 2013
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Return Of The Kupo

Greetings, everyone! Good Rep Bayohne Bay XII here! Work is well underway for the upcoming release of patch 2.1 in December! And I know you’re all eagerly awaiting the return of the Good King (Moggle Mog XII)!
21 Sep 2013
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The Sorceress and the Stone

Greetings, all! This year we’re celebrating a lot of milestones in our Square Enix online titles – the 11th anniversary of FINAL FANTASY XI, the first anniversary of Dragon Quest X in Japan, and the rebirth of XIV with the release of FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn! To celebrate, we’ll be hosting a few
21 Sep 2013
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Pre Patch Preview

Greetings, all! Bayohne here, with some exciting updates from the recent FFXIV stage show at the Tokyo Game Show! The team showed off some exciting content planned for patch 2.1!
23 Aug 2013
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World Unboxing Champion

Greetings, everyone! Bayohne here. We’re very proud to present a video of the unboxing of the North American FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Collector’s Edition! In the video you’ll see me and Kay from our Marketing Team, digging excitedly into the package. We’ve been looking forward to showing off the goodies that adventurers will
22 Aug 2013
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Guten Morgen, Gamescom

Greetings! Bayohne here with Gamescom update number… I’ve lost count. Everyone’s over in Cologne having a blast, and enjoying the crowds of gamers anxious to play the game, and finishing the day off by eating delicious food and I’m stuck here. I mean, not “stuck here,” but I really am jealous of all that excitement!
20 Aug 2013
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Dungeon Diving Deux

Greetings, everyone! Bayohne here once more! I promised you all a look at the second dungeon video and today I make good on that promise! Take a look at “Dungeon Crawl, Part 2!” Last time I was able to get some behind-the-scenes artwork of the dungeons off of the network share drive. Unfortunately, it seems
20 Aug 2013
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Back in Black (and Yellow)

Greetings, everyone! Bayohne here with an “On the Road to Gamescom” update! Soon after the conclusion of Beta Test phase 4, Yoshida and some of the team members hopped aboard a flight to the SE London office to prepare for Gamescom! Like we mentioned previously, one of the big draws of the show will be
15 Aug 2013
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FFXIV Developer’s Blog Recap

The so-called “Developer’s Blog” has been particularly active recently – not surprising leading up to the launch of A Realm Reborn.  Revealed on Sunday was the brand-new Unicorn mount: on Tuesday, Chocobo gear:
9 Aug 2013
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Paint Me Like One of Your Moogles

Hello all, Bayohne here! What’d you think of the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part VIII? Pretty insane, right? Nearly three hours long, packed full of new info, gameplay details and some juicy reveals! This time, the inseparable duo of Yoshida and Foxclon, were joined by a special guest – Rie Tanaka, the Japanese voice
7 Aug 2013
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Summoning Soken

Greetings!Bayohne here again! In the early hours of the morning, the team hosted their usual test stream for the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part VIII. Mocchi, from the Community Team in Japan, was joined by always enthusiastic Sound Director Masayoshi Soken! The duo discussed the stream, and a few of the things that adventurers
4 Aug 2013
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Flying Fairy

Greetings! Bayohne here with the third in our “updates that take a look at the upcoming pets” series! Today we’re looking at the scholar’s pet fairy!
29 Jul 2013
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Egi-citing News, Everyone

Everyone, gather around. It’s Bayohne again. You’re probably wondering why I’m whispering (by the way, I’m whispering). A lot of people didn’t appreciate the tease about carbuncle details in my last post, and I promised I would make it right. Risking life and limb (and my job), I snuck onto the development server when the
29 Jul 2013
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Elevator (FFXIV) Action

Hello, everyone! Can you believe there are less than 30 days until the release of FFXIV: A Realm Reborn!? Project Manager M has been visiting local game stores and snapping a few shots of the cool advertisements that are being put up!
24 Jul 2013
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Dungeon Diving

Greetings, everyone! Bayohne here, back with an exciting trailer for you all to check out! This time we delve into some of the dungeons that adventurers will be challenging in a Realm Reborn! Our beta testers will no doubt recognize some of these from their time spent playing—er, testing—the beta! Take a look at part