The Doll Festival is upon us once more, and this year's celebration is in full bloom with the beautiful decorations sprinkled throughout each of the three starting nations. To celebrate the special occasion, we're calling on adventurers to provide a screenshot of their characters alongside the cherry blossom trees which decorate the streets!

Simply take and submit a screenshot of your character in either Bastok, San d'Oria, or Windurst alongside the blossoming cherry tree decorations and we'll award qualifying participants with a special reward of their choice!

Campaign Period
  • Campaign Start Date:
    Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 1:00 a.m. (PDT)
    Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 8:00 (GMT)


  • Campaign End Date:
    Friday, March 31, 2023 at 7:59 a.m. (PDT)
    Friday, March 31, 2023 at 14:59 (GMT) / 15:59 (BST)

Theme
Submit a screenshot of your character alongside the cherry tree decorations in any of the three starting nations: Bastok, San d'Oria, or Windurst during the Doll Festival (NA/EU).

Awards
The first 250 qualifying submitters from Twitter, and the first 250 qualifying submitters from the Official Forum will each receive their choice of one of the following in-game items, to be delivered to one character under their account:
  • Opus Shelf
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  • Eastern Umbrella
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  • Doll Stand
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  • Well
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  • Royal Chocobo Beret
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  • Marvelous Cheer
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* Your item of choice can be delivered to other characters under the same account.
* Please make sure your delivery box isn’t full. We will not resend the award if your delivery box is full at the time of delivery.
* If submitting through the Official Forum the award will be delivered to the character on the submitter’s forum handle. You can update your forum handle from the Settings > Edit Character option under the My Settings menu.
* If submitting through Twitter the award will be delivered to the character whose name and world is listed in the Tweet.

How to Obtain an Award
Official Forum Submissions:
  • Submit a screenshot that meets the campaign’s theme. The screenshot must depict a very clear image of either your character, an NPC, a place, or a thing.
  • You may practice submitting and formatting your post in the discussion/practice thread.
  • Once you are ready, please submit your screenshot in the submission thread.

Twitter Submissions:
  • Log in to your Twitter account (if necessary, first create a Twitter account for free at Twitter.com).
  • Follow the official English Final Fantasy XI Twitter account (@FFXI_EN) from your Twitter account.
  • During the Entry Period reply to the Promotion tweet (which is posted on or around the Entry Period), posted by @FFXI_EN, from your Twitter account that includes the following:
    • Attach a screenshot that meets the campaign’s theme. The screenshot must depict a very clear image of either your character, an NPC, a place, or a thing.
    • Character Name
    • Character World
    • Prize
    • Hashtags: #FFXI #VanaBloom
    • Caption (optional)


Templates
Official Forums:
Prize:
(Caption)
Twitter:
Character Name:
World:
Prize:
#FFXI #VanaBloom
(Caption)
Example Submissions:
Official Forums:
Prize: Opus Shelf
I love the Vana'diel cherry blossoms this time of year!
Twitter:
Reply to the Promotion tweet posted by @FFXI_EN with the following:
Character Name: Okieeomi
World: Asura
Prize: Opus Shelf
#FFXI #VanaBloom
I love the Vana'diel cherry blossoms this time of year!

You must abide by the following rules and guidelines when making your submission:
  1. One (1) submission per account. If multiple submissions are posted, only the first submission will be accepted.
  2. You must have a Square Enix Account.
  3. You may not submit the same screenshot you used in previous campaigns. Any submissions that merely repurpose the same screenshot from another campaign will be disqualified at Square Enix’s sole discretion.
  4. If a screenshot contains the names of other players, please ask those players for permission before submitting the screenshot. If you are unable to obtain permission from the other player(s), you must hide their name(s) before submitting the screenshot.
  5. You may use image editing software to crop, alter, enhance, or add more features to your screenshot as long as the resulting image clearly shows that it is FINAL FANTASY XI-related.
  6. Square Enix reserves the right to disqualify, remove, or take down any content at its sole discretion.
  7. Normal forum rules apply to all forum posts.
  8. Square Enix reserves the right to remove or take down any content at its sole discretion.
  9. You must be at least 13 years old to participate.
  10. By submitting a submission, you grant Square Enix permission to share the submission post on Square Enix’s social media channels.