Final Fantasy 14: 24 hours of maintenance on October 12 during Final Fantasy 15 crossover
Square Enix has scheduled 24 hours of maintenance for Final Fantasy 14 starting Monday, October 12 at 6:00 a.m. Eastern.
During the maintenance, the game and some website features will be temporarily unavailable. The downtime also shortens the remaining time for the ongoing 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
According to a notice on The Lodestone, Square Enix is planning maintenance for Final Fantasy 14. The scheduled duration is 24 hours, meaning players will temporarily be unable to log in and some website features will be unavailable. In the source provided, the maintenance is explicitly tied to an ongoing in-game event, but no full technical explanation of the work is included in the text.
The maintenance is scheduled for Monday, October 12 at 6:00 a.m. Eastern. The information provided says the maintenance ends on October 13, but no exact end time is listed. As a result, only the start time is confirmed in the available source material, while the end of the downtime falls within that same day without further detail.
The downtime overlaps with an ongoing Final Fantasy 15 crossover event in Final Fantasy 14. Because of the maintenance, players will have 24 fewer hours to take part in that event. The source also names the Regalia Type-G mount as one of the rewards tied to the crossover. No other rewards are listed in the provided text.
Timeline
September 8: Patch 7.56 is said to arrive in the provided context, with main scenario quests and Beastmaster as the second Limited Job.
Monday, October 12, 6:00 a.m. Eastern: start of 24 hours of maintenance for Final Fantasy 14, as noted in the Lodestone announcement.
October 12 to October 13: the game and parts of the website are temporarily unavailable during the maintenance window.
October 13: planned end of the maintenance, with no exact time given in the source.
During the same period: the Final Fantasy 15 crossover event continues, but available playtime is reduced by 24 hours.
In the provided source: the Regalia Type-G mount is mentioned as a reward from the crossover event.
January: Evercold is mentioned in the provided context as a planned expansion.
Background
The provided source places this maintenance during a period when Final Fantasy 14 still has an ongoing crossover event with Final Fantasy 15. The Regalia Type-G mount is explicitly mentioned as a reward. The source does not give a full overview of the event content, but it does make clear that it is a limited-time event whose remaining duration is shortened by the maintenance period.
The provided context also mentions Patch 7.56, with new main scenario quests and Beastmaster as the second Limited Job. That detail comes from the supplied article context rather than a separate patch note document in this input. The context places that patch on September 8, so the maintenance notice follows a recent update in the same game cycle.
In addition, the context refers to Evercold as an expansion expected in January. The external context includes multiple references to Evercold and mentions January 2027 as the planned release window. However, that expansion is not presented in the source information itself as an officially confirmed part of the maintenance notice. For that reason, Evercold remains background information from the provided context rather than the core of the maintenance report.
Taken together, the ongoing crossover event, the recent patch, and the announced maintenance window show Square Enix lining up several Final Fantasy 14 updates in the same period. The available information confirms the start of maintenance, the 24-hour duration, and October 13 as the end date, but not the exact end time. The exact end date of the Final Fantasy 15 crossover event is also not stated in the provided text.