Square Enix announced a FFXIV Cloud Data Center Stress Test ahead of the infrastructure expansion and Dawntrail expansion debut in Summer 2024. It will begin on November 20, 2023, with players asked to create new characters to test out new servers.
While both the North American and European Lodestone sites brought this up, the Cloud Server Location being tested is an East Coast one in North America. To take part, someone must choose the NA Cloud DC (Beta)’s CloudTest01 or CloudTest02 World and create a new character. Currently active subscribers will get Tales of Adventure: Shadowbringers and Tales of Adventure III for each job, level 80 accessories for each job, 50 million gil, 99 Bombard Blooms, and 99 Meteor Survivor Magicked Prisms. The goal will then be for players to attempt to log in and, if they are able to, to do as much as possible on the test servers with the new characters.
For reference, the Tales of Adventure: Shadowbringers normally costs $25 and completes everything for a character’s job up through the Shadowbringers expansion. The Tales of Adventure III (level 80) for each job typically costs $25 for each one.
As this is a test, certain features won’t be available as usual and these characters will be deleted on November 27, 2023. Players won’t be able to use the Data Center Travel option, the FFXIV Companion App, or the Lodestone. There will also be an official forum thread for people to report back on the experience, though it hasn’t appeared there yet.
Final Fantasy XIV is available for the PS4, PS5, and PC, with an Xbox Series X version coming in Spring 2024. The FFXIV Cloud Data Center Stress Test will run November 20-27, 2023.
