Final Fantasy XIV Mobile's Global Launch Officially Cancelled

Final Fantasy XIV Mobile's Global Launch Officially Cancelled

Square Enix and Lightspeed Studios have announced that Final Fantasy XIV Mobile (Chinese Edition) will end service on September 30, 2026. The game’s worldwide release has also been cancelled. FFXIV Mobile officially launched in China in June 2025, and while Square initially strongly promoted the game, it slowly stopped talking about it outside of China. Rather than a port of the full game, FFXIV Mobile was more of a standalone MMORPG adaptation …

Final Fantasy 14 mobile is shutting down for good: Here’s when

Final Fantasy 14 Mobile will never make it outside mainland China. Square Enix and development partner Tencent have confirmed the game is ending service on September 30, 2026, cancelling any hope of...

Final Fantasy Game Shutting Down Just 1 Year After Launch, Before Most Fans Even Got to Try It

Courtesy of Square Enix and Tencent Square Enix has gained a reputation for releasing short-lived mobile games that shut down after just a few years at best. Now, fans have yet another reason to fear getting attached to new mobile games from the publisher. Not long after delisting a popular Final Fantasy spin-off, the company has confirmed it’s shutting down Final […]

Square Enix just killed Final Fantasy 14's mobile port before it could even launch globally, offering "sincere apologies for being unable to meet your expectations"

Final Fantasy 14's planned mobile port – a release that Square Enix hoped for the world to see after its launch in China – is now off the table entirely, apparently.In case you're out of the loop on Final Fantasy 14 Mobile, it first kicked off years ago when "a small team of die-hard" fans proposed the idea to MMO director Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida, "armed with a 100-page proposal" – a proposal that interested the lead, to say the least. It's larg…

Tencent’s Final Fantasy XIV Mobile is sunsetting in China and the global version is now canceled

Gonna be honest, I had completely forgotten that Final Fantasy XIV Mobile was in development, owing largely to the fact that Square-Enix and Tencent’s Lightspeed Studio, haven’t said a whole lot about to western audiences since officially announcing it at the end of 2024 and then launching it in China. It wasn’t a port of […]

Final Fantasy XIV Mobile Canceled and Shut Down

Square Enix announced it canceled its promised worldwide release of the Android and iOS adaptation of Final Fantasy XIV known as FFXIV Mobile and will shut down the currently running Chinese Edition of the MMORPG. Newcomers can’t register, existing players can’t spend any more in-game money, and the company told people to prepare for the September 30, 2026 shutdown. This comes after its launch in the region in June 2025. Two reasons were offered…