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When I was in college, I met a girl who was absolutely amazing. I was dating someone at the time (not my future wife,...

Normally when I do speculation columns - about Final Fantasy XIV or really anything else under the sun - I'm doing so for a...

Everyone either accepts at this point that Final Fantasy XIV has an excellent story or has decided to die on the hill of insisting...

Let's start with something straightforward: Everyone who wants to hop down to the comments to state that you don't care about story in an...

In August of 2013, the Final Fantasy XIV relaunch happened and did basically every thing you should not do with any sort of long-format...

Let me start with the most trivial question possible first: Does Naoki Yoshida have a calendar? He has to, right? Early January 2023 is...

It'd really be nice to visit Ala Mhigo, but I sincerely doubt at this point that we're ever going to go there in Final...

As I discussed when the actual patch came out, I was somewhat less than enamored with Final Fantasy XIV's first Variant Dungeon. It's not...

Interquel patches in Final Fantasy XIV are always an odd cocktail. On the one hand, they consist of content that was intentionally held back...

There are some divisive characters in Final Fantasy XIV, but in some ways Hildibrand Helidor Maximilian Manderville stands above all of them - not...

Well, that was... sooner than I expected! I had honestly been expecting patch 6.25 to be further out than... well, next week, but here...

All right, gang, who wants a sandwich? Especially if that sandwich involves... a boost to your Determination and Critical Hit rating for the next...

Everyone knows that people who play Final Fantasy XIV will not shut up about the game's music. This includes me. I will not shut...

So right now, some jobs in Final Fantasy XIV are performing better than others. In other news, water retains its moisturizing properties. Early reports...

I don't think there's really a question to be asked about whether or not Final Fantasy XIV wants new players to join the game....

So let me start with a statement: Gil is pretty much irrelevant to me in Final Fantasy XIV because I already have enough. We...

Gosh, this has felt like a long darn week, hasn't it? I couldn't tell you why it felt so particularly long to me, but...

Everyone, you need to remember something very important about this patch. Something that it's possible you didn't even know until just now, something that...

The nice thing about having the patch notes always released well ahead of time for Final Fantasy XIV is that we can always pick...

To the surprise of basically no one who closely watches Final Fantasy XIV's overall patch progression, patch 6.2 is arriving on August 23rd. That's...