Final Fantasy 14 Servers are experiencing major issues

SUMMARY

Final Fantasy 14's recent server outage in North America was likely the result of a power outage rather than a DDoS attack.
Players experienced a server outage affecting four NA Data Centers.
Square Enix is currently investigating the matter.

On January 5, Final Fantasy 14 A major server outage was experienced, as four North American Data Centers went offline shortly after 8:00 PM Eastern. According to Final Fantasy 14 social media player, the server issue was likely caused by a power outage in the Sacramento area as a transformer blew before coming back online within an hour of the first report.

This latest incident is not the first time Final Fantasy 14The server suffered major technical problems. During the year 2024, Final Fantasy 14Servers were regularly targeted by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which sent fake packets to servers and overwhelmed them. During a DDoS attack, Final Fantasy 14 players will experience higher latency than usual, making the game unplayable and causing server crashes. Although Square Enix has used mitigation techniques to prevent the effects of DDoS attacks, there is no effective way to stop them. Players can use a virtual private network (VPN) as a solution to improve their connection.

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NA Final Fantasy 14 was the target of a DDoS attack, another situation caused this latest server issue. According to a post on the r/ffxiv subreddit, users shared what they were doing in-game before the server took over. In response to Reddit user dunphy_Collapsable's post, another user named Sarikitty said that there was a loud boom or explosion in Sacramento, where Final Fantasy 14The North American Data Center is located. Other Reddit users confirmed that the sound was consistent with a blown power transformer, which may have caused a power outage that affected the neighborhood. Final Fantasy 14 data center. The outage was reported shortly after 8pm Eastern, and the server was back online an hour later. Square Enix released a statement on Lodestone to confirm the issues and said the matter is under investigation.

Final Fantasy 14's North American Data Center Recovers From Major Outage

Data centers in Europe, Japan, and Oceanic were unaffected, which was compounded by local server outages. At the time of writing, Final Fantasy 14North American Data Centers are slowly coming back online, starting with Aether, Crystal and Primal Data Centers. The Dynamis Data Center, which is the newest of the Final Fantasy 14The data center was inaccessible.

NA Final Fantasy 14 has ambitious plans for 2025, including the launch of Final Fantasy 14 Mobilethe server problem is the final test that the game has to overcome. Only time will tell what the outcome of the ongoing server problems will be.