Final Fantasy XIV goes down for a nine-hour hotfix tonight — FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Steam update #699175

If you've got plans to go grinding in Final Fantasy XIV tonight, you're going to need to seek out alternative entertainment. FFXIV is going down for a lengthy maintenance period in order to implement a hotfix and address some of the server issues lingering from the MMO's recent explosion in popularity . Final Fantasy XIV maintenance will begin on August 23 at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT, or August 24 at 2am BST. Maintenance will last for nine hours, concluding on August 24 at 3am PDT / 6am EDT / 11am BST. The home world transfer service will be suspended 30 minutes before maintenance begins, too. This period will cover the implementation of a new hotfix for patch 5.58 , and will allow the devs to "conduct maintenance on the infrastructure", as they explain in the announcement . The devs have spoken of broad plans to ease server congestion over the past handful of months, as the game has seen a recent...