Final Fantasy 14 will soon be receiving new players again, Square Enix has announced.

Square Enix has revealed a date for when Final Fantasy 14 free-to-play trial accounts and new players can start enjoying the award-winning MMORPG again. On January 25, 2022, the game will be opening its doors once again for new players and trial users. This is made possible by the opening of the Oceanian Data Center, expansion of the existing Japanese, European, and North American Data Centers, and the launching of the Data Center Travel System. The news also announced that Home World Transfer Service will become available once again.

The announcement ended with an apology towards players who have wanted to try out the game since December. “Once again, I (Final Fantasy 14 Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida) wish to apologize for the delays to server expansion caused by the global semiconductor shortage. The necessity for communities to separate due to the regrouping of Worlds is another inconvenience that may prove unavoidable for some players, and we ask for your understanding as we work to alleviate this issue.”

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Previously, thanks to the massive reception to Final Fantasy 14 Endwalker, the game's servers across the world became overloaded, leading to a lot of server issues and long queue times. This led to Square Enix deciding to block free-to-play trial users from playing the game, as well as stopping the sales of the game entirely. While the game's player count hasn't subsided yet, this news goes to show that Square Enix has finally succeeded in buying more servers and upgrading existing ones.

Meanwhile, we're expecting more news from Yoshi-P for Final Fantasy 16‘s development, with new announcements expected to come out in the Spring of 2022.