New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- TOKYO - Final Fantasy XIV players who had marked January 2027 on their calendars now have a new date to plan around. Square Enix has moved the sixth expansion, Evercold, to Tuesday, February 23, 2027, roughly a month later than the January window it gave when the expansion was revealed in April.

The date arrived at the end of the game's Fan Festival tour in Japan, where the publisher also released a full trailer. For a live-service game whose community plans around expansion launches, a slip of a few weeks matters less as a calendar change than as a test of how much confidence players have in the schedule.

The rest of the timetable is now fixed. Pre-orders open on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, and early access is sc...