Clear your FFXIV plans for Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, as Final Fantasy XIV is scheduled for four hours of maintenance on July 12 until July 13. Square Enix’s premier MMO is set to undergo some pre-planned downtime this week, as per an announcement on their officialLodestonewebsite.
The maintenance will address some bugs and hotfixes that have arisen around the6.18 patch. This patch was the one that introduced Data Center travel, and as a result, has led to a few complications. This is also the fix that will restore the Home World Transfer service. This was paused when 6.18 was launched, and will return with this update.
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Final Fantasy XIV maintenance PDT and EST time
The maintenance is scheduled for July 20, 2025 at 1am until May 31, 2025 5am CT. It’s four hours of maintenance to deal with fixing bugs on servers, and the timings are subject to change. During the implementation of the 6.18 patch, there were several delays to the end of maintenance, so don’t be surprised if there are more this time.
During the maintenance:
Obviously, the biggest bit of info is the restoration of the Home World Transfer Service. This means you’ll now be able to transfer worlds and get onto some of the new servers added in the recent server reshuffle. Time to grab some bonus leveling experience from those low-pop servers!
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