Dawntrail Waiting Room

Servers are scheduled to go live at 2:00 AM PDT / 4:00 AM CDT / 5:00 AM EDT / 9:00 AM GMT / 6:00 PM JST / 8:00 PM AEDT. They will not be available early.

Warriors of Light, the time has finally come...

...to wait another 48 hours to access Dawntrail, that is! The game will be down for a full two day maintenance in order to implement patch 7.0. Please feel free to use this thread as an outlet for your excitement as we all patiently try not to go crazy with anticipation. What content are you most excited for? What's the first thing you plan on tackling once servers are live? Have you stocked up on enough snacks to survive early access?!

Here are some useful resources to brush up on while we wait for servers to go live:

What to expect on launch day

Please set reasonable expectations for launch day on Friday for yourselves. While YoshiP has assured us that we don't need to worry because they have "perfect defenses" for launch day, we're all hoping things go closer to Shadowbringers' smooth launch than Endwalkers' rocky one. We don't want you to get frustrated or blindsided by the likely queue times and possible errors or disconnections; as the recent DDoS attacks have shown, there's always potential for new and unexpected disruptions.

Square Enix has published an article on the Lodestone highlighting some of their efforts that they've undergone to combat congestion, including suggestions like visiting the Oceanian Data Center; playing on less congested Data Centers in your Region (Shadow for EU and Dynamis for NA); as well as using the "Visit Another World" option (by right clicking on your character before logging in) as it will shuttle you automatically to a less congested World in your Data Center.

A reminder about spoilers

Not everyone plays at the same pace as you do, so please don't purposefully or accidentally spoil something for other players. If you're unsure if something is a spoiler, err on the side of caution and ensure that you follow the appropriate rules and mark them as such.

Please remember our rules on spoilers!

a) Titles should never contain spoilers.

b) Comments in non-spoiler posts or outside the spoiler context should use Reddit's spoiler formatting.

c) Posts about leaks and data mining should be spoiler tagged.

d) Spoiler posts must have a title containing [Spoiler: x] where x is the context.

An example of a good spoiler post title would be something like:

[Spoiler: MSQ Lv 93] This moment had me on the edge of my seat!

An example of a bad spoiler post title would be something like:

I can't believe Richard the Lionheart died during the siege of Château de Châlus-Charbrol!

As a separate reminder, we also will remove content that includes data mining of music files. This was requested by Final Fantasy XIV's sound director Masayoshi Soken himself and we wish to respect that. Come patch day, there are plenty of other places to find the music, please don't ask about it here.

Take care of yourself

First and foremost: remember that this is a game! Your real life health comes first. Be sure to get a decent rest, drink plenty of water, eat healthy, and take frequent breaks to stretch and walk around! The game will always be here when you get back!

Sleep, hydrate, eat, and enjoy!