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Square Enix just announced that players with currently inactive accounts for FFXIV will be able to play again this weekend in the hopes of letting him experience the new Patch 2.1 content released three weeks ago. Starting Saturday January 11th midnight PST, players will be able to return to Eorzea. The only conditions are that you've purchased the game and the account is currently inactive, being a subscriber is not a requirement.

Source: FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone | Explore a Realm Awoken During the Free Login Weekend! (01/07/2014)

If you own Sony's next-gen console, the Playstation 4, you are in luck! All owners of the PS4 will receive access to FFXIV: A Realm Reborn Beta regardless if you have an account or not! You don't even have to have a Playstation Plus account. All you need is a PS4 and the Internet and you get access to Beta.

Square Enix plans on releasing the Beta on Feb. 22, 2014 and is not restricting the amount of players that can join at once.

If I had a PS4 I would be looking forward to this... I am curious as to how nice the game runs on the new console.

From December 18th through to December 31th the Christmas spirit will be visiting the cities of Eorzea. In each of the cities, decorations have been put up to celebrate the time of the year, even snow falling. Adventurers will be able to help out in protecting snowmen from the dangerous and mischievous imps threatening to melt all of the fun away. Victory for the adventurers will give them the choice of seasonal treats or equipment.

A guide is available for the event.

http://ffxivaddicts.com/resources/starlight-festival.33/

Source: FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone | The Starlight Celebration

There are even more changes and added features that don't group up with anything else. There are a lot of more changes to the systems and even achievements. The biggest new features here are the Duty Roulette and Party Finder allowing people to setup more customized runs on dungeons with specific goals in mind.

Most combat classes/jobs have received some changes with some of them announced earlier. The biggest changes are for Warrior and Dragoon, but Bard, White Mage, Black Mage and others have all received some changes to their abilities/skills. In general, Warrior, Paladin, Monk and Dragon have received buffs to their jobs. In general, Bard, White Mage and Black Mage have received debuffs to their jobs. Arcanist and Scholar are a little more mixed. For more specifics on how this will affect your chosen jobs look below.

Housing has been had one of the bigger question marks in the patch mainly because it was not decided until recently how expensive they would make housing. The notes go into great detail on the housing prices. There are several things to remember with it. You need to know what server you're on as the server changes the price, non-legacy versus legacy and even population. The TFF Server Ultros is one of the more expensive non-legacy servers, likely due to the high population of the server. There are also 5 rankings for plots of land which change the cost and the cost will lower every 6 hours for a total of 360 times. So unpurchased land will get cheaper. However, land will still be very expensive even the cheapest is 4 million gil with the most expensive being 625 million.

Start saving.

There is naturally a large amount of new items available. There are new Grand Company items along with new ranks. There is a lot of new gear (many PvP), along with new mounts, new minions, new housing and furniture. Here is the very long list. There are also many changes to gear for item level, displaying items, recipes, more items can be stored in the armiore.

The treasure feature added will include both battle classes and gathering classes. Gathering classes will find maps that the battle classes will then use to locate treasure and fight the monsters. There are 5 ranks of maps. Maps can be sold so long as they have not been activated. Rank 5 maps will require a party, so it is important to remember when running it. Locating maps by the gather will be limited to once every 18 hours.

There is a significant amount of content to cover for the new PvP feature added. There are a list of new skills specific for PvP. There are only ten skills that can be slotted at one time. There will be changes for Bard's range damage while in PvP based on distance and there will be changes for magic cast interruption. There are PvP specific equipment and there will be lv 30, lv 40 and lv 50 battles.

There are a lot of changes to existing content in game. Here is where I will list all of the changes. There are changes for Guildleves, Guildheist, FATEs, Dungeons. There is a long list of changes for Guildleves specifically experience earn or gil. There are some new Sanctuary added, some Mor Dhora expansions and the tomestones for mythology has been confirmed to be 450 now.