Final Fantasy 14: 24-hour maintenance on October 12 during Final Fantasy 15 crossover

• During the maintenance, the game and some website features will be temporarily unavailable; the downtime also shortens the remaining run of the Final Fantasy 15 crossover event.
• The source provided mentions the Regalia Type-G mount as one of the rewards from that crossover event.

What happened

Square Enix announced maintenance for Final Fantasy 14 via The Lodestone. According to the notice, the maintenance begins on Monday, October 12 at 6:00 a.m. Eastern and lasts for 24 hours. The available information says the maintenance period ends on October 13, but no exact end time is given. The notice is tied to an ongoing Final Fantasy 15 crossover event in Final Fantasy 14, meaning the timing lines up directly with an event that was still active at the time of the announcement.

During that period, the game and parts of the website will be temporarily unavailable. The notice does not specify which website sections will go offline, but it does confirm that not only the game itself, but also some online features, will be interrupted for a time. As a result, players will have 24 fewer hours to finish the crossover event than they would have had without the maintenance.

The source provided names the Regalia Type-G mount as one of the rewards in that crossover event. Other rewards, quests, or requirements are not broken down further in the supplied text. The source also does not say whether the maintenance was later changed, extended, or shortened; the only concrete schedule in the input is the 24-hour window from October 12 to October 13.

Background

The maintenance notice comes during a period when Final Fantasy 14 still has a Final Fantasy 15 crossover event running. The source explicitly mentions the Regalia Type-G mount as a reward, but it does not provide a full list of event content or an exact end date for the event. That means the only confirmed detail is that the event was still active when the maintenance was announced, and that the downtime cuts the remaining run by 24 hours.

The supplied context also mentions Patch 7.56, with new main scenario quests and Beastmaster as the second Limited Job. That detail comes from the provided context rather than a separate official patch note excerpt in this input. The fact report also links Patch 7.57 to the period after the maintenance and names Same-region Player Matching as a new feature. According to that same information, the feature was available only for the Japanese data centers Elemental, Gaia, Mana, and Meteor at the time.

The context further refers to Evercold as an expansion planned for January, with January 2027 listed as the release window. That information is not part of the maintenance notice itself and is included here only as background. Within the supplied material, there is no confirmation that the maintenance schedule was later changed, that crossover rewards were adjusted, or that Same-region Player Matching was later rolled out beyond Japan.

Sources

• Gamerant: article about Final Fantasy 14 maintenance and the Regalia Type-G mount
• Gamerant: article about Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.57
• Supplied external context about Patch 7.56 and Evercold