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Patch 5.31 is now live and there have been quite smaller changes done, some of the highlights include:

• New chapter in the Ishgardian Restoration - Once all reconstruction works included in Patch 5.31 have been completed, speak with Augebert in the Firmament (X:11.4 Y:14.1) to unlock these quests. Once story quest is completed 4 new side quests become available. New supplies can now be crafted and submitted. The number of scrips/points from the previous chapter have been reduced.
• Adjustments to Eden's Verse (Savage) - Two treasure coffers will now always appear and the weekly restriction on rewards obtained from coffers has been removed. The weekly entrance restriction on all areas of Eden's Verse (Savage) has been removed.
  Players may now proceed directly to any area of Eden's Verse (Savage).
• [B}New items[/B] - New orchestration rolls, house furnishings, triple triad cards, emotes, mounts, minions (mostly just a few in each category). Also added...

There will be new housing plots available soon in Final Fantasy XIV finally! For all of those itching to buy a house but are on servers with none available, now is your chance to purchase a plot and get a house.

Every residential district, including The Goblet, The Mist, The Lavender Beds and Shirogane will be getting six new wards each. These wards will be split up as three standard wards and three subdivision wards.

If you are interested in buying a house, now is the time to start saving that Gil and keeping an eye out for the Patch 5.35 release date.

The new account-wide mount is now available via the online store for $35.99. Pretty steep price but the mount does seat four total players that are in your party. The mount also has new unique riding music.

The official description from the online store:

A ubiquitous mode of transportation in Eorzea, the chocobo carriage is kept aloft by ceruleum gas-filled bladders. This technology traces its origins to an early Ixali dirigible that crashed in the Twelveswood and was seized by Gridanian authorities. Accommodating a total of four passengers, no destination will be beyond the reach of you and your friends.

Coming in 2.2 will be a new dungeon and two new hard mode dungeons as previously reported. Square Enix spotlighted the dungeons for a quick look into them. The screenshots provided do not tell as much about the dungeon. One interesting note is that these dungeons will be ilvl55 for their requirements. It should be noted that the last dungeons from 2.1 were ilvl48. So there is an increase in the gear requirements. However, Pharos Sirius was also admitted by the developments as being harder than the rewards granted. So it is unknown how that information will factor into the new Amdapor dungeon if it will be as challenging as Pharos are more so, but with greater rewards than the new hard modes.

While not confirmed yet, it is highly likely these new dungeons will have the new tomestones as a reward. It's unknown how they'll give them out, but best guess would be that the new dungeons will reward mythology and the new tomes, since the cap on mythology is dropping.

Looks like fans can look forward to jumping on a FAT Chocobo when the game launches for the PS4 April 14, 2014. Doesn't sound like a quick way to get around Eorzea does it? No worries! Your character will swing some tasty gysahl greens in front of the bird to get him moving!

The Fat Chocobo, as well as a Coeurl mount and Baby Behemoth Minion, are included in the Collector's Edition for the Playstation 4. Anyone who already owns the Collector's Edition for either Playstation 3 or the PC will be receiving the mount upon the PS4 launch date.

Source: Siliconera.

Now that 2.16 has arrived in time for the PS4 launch and PS4 beta test for XIV, a long list of new features and changes were outlined. For a between major patch, the list of items is substantial. Notables include, new rewards for achievements, refresh options and notifications for party finder, more Summoning Bells and Market Boards placed in wards, Chimera and Hydra DF, climate and weather effects on players, the list goes on.

Well it looks like Square Enix has officially Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn's Original Soundtrack (Blu-Ray Music Disc). It looks like you can now pre-order on the Square Enix online store for $49.99 (USD) and has a set launch date for March 26, 2014. I think I can speak for many that the music in the game is phenomenal, something worth checking out if you love music and have the extra cash.

More details directly from the Square Enix site:

Contains songs from FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn!
The FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn original soundtrack contains 119 songs, which is a whopping 6 plus hours of music, from the game at release and including up to patch 2.1! With FFXIV Sound Director Masayoshi Soken as the primary composer, this soundtrack features an all-star cast of composers including Nobuo Uematsu, Tsuyoshi Sekido, and Naoshi Mizuta.

Utilizes a new music medium: BDM (Blu-Ray Disc Music)
By implementing a new type of media, known as "Blu-ray...

Here are a few new (and old) information regarding the PS4 version of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. It will launch on April 14, 2014 and phase 1 of the beta will start on February 22nd, and will run until March 3rd (characters will be wiped in this phase). After that, Phase 2 will start on April 4th and run until April 7th (characters from Phase 2 can be transferred over to the main game).

Square Enix says that everyone with a PS4 will be able to access the beta, and you'll download it from the store. PS3 and PC players will also be able to transfer your data over to the PS4 for the beta, but Square Enix notes that in the retail version everyone plays on the same servers.

However, once you transfer your copy over from the PS3 to the PS4, you'll be unable to play the game on your PS3 -- unless you buy the PS4 version separately. The PS4 version will support updated visuals, PS Vita Remote Play, mouse and keyboard support, and Dualshock 4 touchpad support.

The Letter from the Producer LIVE in Osaka ran earlier today. Thanks to the translating skills of Reinhart, we have a translation of the event. I will summarize everything that they went over in the event. There were a lot of things that came out of it, so the list is going to be long. There is still time before the Q&A on the forum comes out, so some of the answers are vague from them. There wasn't a lot of very specific, how is something going to be addressed, just that it will be addressed in some unknown fashion.

Starting the event they said that there are going to be adjustments made to dungeons that were harder than expected for the gear rewards, given comments later in the video, this is likely meaning Siren and Pharos Sirius. So there may be a gear increase on the rewards.

The low number of tanks in game is something that they are still monitoring. They did say that they have noticed a lot of people leveling tanks now, but that they aren't to 50 yet. There is a good...

While 2.15 is a smaller patch than the previous 2.1, there is a lengthy number of fixes, changes or additions made as a result. A quick summary of the highlights include, a new rare drop for CT to create a furniture is placed in the dungeon, the last man in the party forced loot was fixed for CT, the vote kick is disabled during loot roles to prevent abuse, guildhest level syncs have been lowered to increase difficulty, beastman quests have numerous updates to improve their player experience, it's possible to vote to abandon a DF without penalty, aetheryte can now be placed in FC housing for teleporting and various PvP changes.

Below is a comprehensive list.