FFXIV 6.5 release date and everything in the Growing Light update

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We now have a FFXIV 6.5 release date and a look at everything we can expect from the Growing Light update, courtesy of the latest letter from the producer. FFXIV Live Letter 79 just took place at the Tokyo Game Show, and as always game director Naoki Yoshida and community producer Toshio Murouchi held their light-hearted, laid-back look at everything coming in the next big Final Fantasy 14 patch. We’ve got all the details below, including a promise of math with Thaliak, a glimpse at the Zeromus fight, Stormblood joining the free trial, and the much-touted FFXIV KFC collab.

We’ll start with the big one up top. The FFXIV 6.5 release date is Tuesday October 3, 2023. We get a good look at the next FFXIV patch, the final big update before the FFXIV Dawntrail release date sails into view in 2024, courtesy of a flashy three and a half minute trailer for the MMORPG featuring the likes of Zero, Ryne, Lyna, and Krile, who are accompanied by most of The Twelve, a handful of Loporrits, and of course gentleman inspector Hildibrand Manderville.

“Some people seemed to have been expecting the release on the 10th,” Yoshida comments, “we know it’s a little off compared to usual.” 6.51 will launch in late October, but he remarks that, while the ‘x.x5’ patches typically land a little faster, 6.55 will be a bit later “because of the story being divided” and will arrive in January 2024. This will feature several notable quest chains including those for Tataru, Hildibrand, and the Tribal Alliance, so you’ll have plenty to do next year.

Yoshida says that the extra Tribal Alliance quest wasn’t viable in Shadowbringers to to cost and timing constraints, but that so many players requested it for Endwalker that they’ve made a special effort to