Eliot Lefebvre
Senior Reporter
Eliot Lefebvre has been writing on Massively Overpowered since it was created after a long and illustrious career of writing about video games for half a decade on some other site that you might have heard about. He currently pens Wisdom of Nym for Final Fantasy XIV, WoW Factor for World of Warcraft, and the industry and culture speculation of Vague Patch Notes. He also shares writing duties on Perfect Ten and writes some nonsense for What Are You Playing. No photos of him standing next to seventeen lizards in a trench coat have surfaced, coincidentally.
Twitter: @eliot_lefebvreStreaming: Snippy Harold
Betawatch: Dual Universe’s new subscription time token
Subscription time tokens! Those always work out well, right? They always fill people with positive fuzzy thoughts and make people happy? That's a thing,...
Final Fantasy XI developers plan a Reddit AMA for next week
The Final Fantasy XI team is still not the best at talking to the game's North American fanbase, but it's getting better. (Getting better...
Open Tibia pixel art MMO Ravendawn posts its new official trailer
So Ravendawn has posted its new official trailer, and it's excited to claim right in its Twitter announcement that it's bringing back what makes...
EverQuest II invites players to test the newest incarnation of Tinkerfest
How do you feel about tinkering? If your answer is "ambivalent to negative," you may want to just move on; EverQuest II is trying...
Vague Patch Notes: A look back at my start in Final Fantasy XI, many years later
It is the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy XI this week. Not the 20th anniversary of the game being in the US, and thus...
The Daily Grind: What’s the saddest guild breakup you’ve experienced in an MMO?
Guilds dissolve. It's almost inevitable. You get a group of people together and fun times happen, but eventually pressures both inside and out build...
The Elder Scrolls Online highlights Lady Arabelle in a bit of in-universe lore
Spy, monster hunter, author, soldier, philanthropist... is there anything that Lady Arabelle hasn't done? Yes. The dishes. But the latest article on the official...
PSA: World of Warcraft Classic prepares to discontinue the character clone service on July 26
The character clone service in WoW Classic was an interesting approach to how the game handled The Burning Crusade Classic vs. the vanilla experience;...
Final Fantasy XI welcomes its 20-year anniversary today
As of today, it's been two decades since Final Fantasy XI first launched in Japan, which makes this a pretty notable anniversary for the...
Final Fantasy XIV assures players that the deadline for claiming houses is still May 26
Here's the good news: If you were one of the players affected by the Final Fantasy XIV bug bug that gave you a winning...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV and the grim specter of continuity lockout
This particular column was inspired by a question by regular reader, commenter, and friend to man and beast alike Scott Leyes, who originally posed...
The Daily Grind: What are your main areas of focus when you play an MMORPG?
It's probably not a surprise to anyone reading this that I really like stories in MMOs. They're important to me. And if you've read...
WRUP: Art errors in Massively Overpowered Issue #213 edition
During the main scene outside Oldman's Pub, Bree's hands are incorrectly colored like her jacket.
Eliot is drawn with the older Apex Sword...
Betawatch: Wrath of the Lich King Classic’s beta approaches this summer
Picture this: The World of Warcraft team is crouched together in a dark room. Somewhere in the distance, you hear wolves howling. There is...
Storyboard: The fatal flaw of overreaching villain plans in MMOs plotlines
So the other day, a friend and I were talking about villainous schemes in MMO storylines. Specifically, we were talking about why World of...
World of Warcraft is testing a ‘social contract’ for its players in 9.2.5
"For the love of the Titans, please be a decent person to your fellow players."
That is not what the new social contract in World...
Final Fantasy XIV is finishing its housing bug corrections on May 16
As promised, so it has come to pass; a new letter from Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida has confirmed that the...
WoW Factor: Excitement and trepidation about World of Warcraft bringing back talent trees
So you probably don't need me to tell you at this point that I'm looking forward to having talent trees back in World of...
An untitled prequel novel for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight has surfaced on Amazon
One of the things that was conspicuously missing from World of Warcraft: Dragonflight's initial announcement was the concurrent announcement of anything that might be...
The Daily Grind: How much do you trust player-based analyses of MMO playerbases?
There was a time when World of Warcraft would reliably tell press and players just how many people were playing the game at any...
