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Square Enix announced that, once again, the Final Fantasy XI Return Home to Vana’diel and a Discount Campaign sale that reduces both the MMORPG and FFXI Seekers of Adoulin expansion pack will be back in August 2025. Both start on August 29, 2025. However, the Return Home to Vana’diel event ends on September 8, 2025, while the game will be reduced until September 25, 2025.
As usual, the FFXI Return Home to Vana’diel event is about getting older players a chance to return to the MMORPG and play for free for a time. If you have a Square Enix account and active PlayOnline FFXI that as canceled as of August 26, 2025, then you can play for free. This is designed to coincide with a number of summer events in-game.
Here are the activities also running during Return Home to Vana’diel:
- August 13, 2025 to September 2, 2025: August 2025 Login Campaign.
- August 15, 2025 to September 6, 2025: Multiple events in the Hot Summer Days, Cool Vana’diel Nights Campaign.
- August 22, 2025 to October 8, 2025: Final Fantasy XIV Collaboration Event.
As for the Final Fantasy XI Discount Campaign, three items related to FFXI are on sale. The Ultimate Collection Seekers Edition, which includes the MMORPG and expansion, will be $9.99 instead of $29.99. If you own the game, but not the latest expansion, Seekers of Adoulin is $4.99 instead of $9.99. The World Transfer Service is also half off during that period and will be $9, rather than $18.
These are both frequently recurring events in FFXI, as the return campaign and sale both happen multiple times each year. The last one showed up between May 16-26, 2025. That’s right when Square Enix announced the paid character race change service. We also often tend to see it around August, as it started on August 18, 2023 and August 23, 2025 in the past.
Final Fantasy XI is available for the PC, with the Return Home to Vana’diel event running August 29, 2025 to September 8, 2025 and the FFXI Ultimate Collections Seekers Edition and Seekers of Adoulin expansion Discount Campaign sale going between August 29, 2025 and September 25, 2025.
