Final Fantasy XIV’s Same-Region Player Matching Expands to North America and Europe With Patch 7.58

Square Enix has announced that same-region player matching will be introduced to the North American and European data centers with the release of Final Fantasy XIV Patch 7.58 on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, following 24 hours of maintenance.

The feature was first introduced to the Japanese data centers with Patch 7.57 on October 13, allowing players across Elemental, Gaia, Mana, and Meteor to use matchmaking and party recruitment regardless of their current logical data center. With the upcoming update, the same system will expand to North America and Europe, allowing players to use these features across all logical data centers within the same physical data center.
The change will extend several social features across these data centers, including Cross-world Linkshells, PvP Teams, Fellowships, and Free Company chat.
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