Final Fantasy 14 players are watering locked-out strangers’ crops so they don’t die during outage

Final Fantasy 14 players spent the outage watering locked-out strangers' crops so nobody came home to a dead garden overnight. A pair of critical PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, forced Square Enix to take the MMO's patch servers offline on October 21, slamming the door on anyone who had already logged off. Console regulars and the chronically AFK inherited the environs, wandering a smorgasbord of near-silent housing wards. Square Enix even paused housing demolition timers as a precaution.