Final Fantasy XIV Logins Are Back After Emergency Patch Server Maintenance

Square Enix has resumed new logins across all Final Fantasy XIV worlds after temporarily taking the game’s patch servers offline to address a critical PHP vulnerability affecting systems worldwide.

The login suspension began on October 21, 2026, while Square Enix carried out emergency security work. Since the patch servers were unavailable during that window, players couldn’t start new sessions on any world. The company said updated patch servers went live at around 5:16 a.m. PDT on Thursday, October 22, and new logins have since been restored.

Not everything is fully back to normal yet. The server backup feature for save data remains temporarily suspended while Square Enix continues work tied to the same vulnerability. The company hasn’t given a return time for that feature yet.

The automatic housing demolition timer, which had also been paused, is now scheduled to resume on October 26, 2026, at 1:00 a.m. PDT. Players with estates may want to double-check their housing status before then, especially if they were relying on the suspension during the outage.

A few connected services were hit by emergency maintenance as well. Configuration Sharing was taken down on October 21, blocking uploads and downloads of config data, though Square Enix has since marked that maintenance as complete. The Final Fantasy XIV Companion App and official forums also underwent emergency maintenance across October 21 and 22.

Further reading: Official Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone notice