Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn producer Naoki Yoshida has started his international media tour to hype the upcoming release of the beta version. We’ve been told that no new info from the tour will be available until after it’s over, but now we have been given an end date. The Lodestone has announced that the next Letter from the Producer Live has been scheduled for Friday, February 22, starting at 3:00 AM PST (11:00 GMT), and that should contain lots of juicy new details.

There’s been nothing definitive stated about this yet, but it also seems likely that the Live Letter will be close to when the beta version is finally released. We were originally told mid-February, so the 22nd would actually be on-time for this development team (relatively speaking)! At the very least, we should be given the beta release date then.

Currently, the dev team is in LA on the first stop of the media tour. No new info has been released, as expected, but one of the dev team members posted this picture to the developers’ blog:




Yes, that is a Final Fantasy XIV elevator at the LA office for Square-Enix. They must be as excited for FFXIV as we are.