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
Into the Super-Verse: So what can Homecoming do with City of Heroes’ Incarnates?
Last week I talked about the major issues that City of Heroes' Incarnate system introduced to the game, and the fact of the matter...
WoW Factor: Steve Danuser was not really the problem with World of Warcraft
So I don't want to sit here and say "oh, things were going so great" before the news that Steve Danuser had actually left...
The Daily Grind: Has an alt ever become your main in an MMO?
Whether or not an MMO really is built to require or incentivize alts is immaterial: If you can make alts, some people will make...
Baldur’s Gate 3 is making companion management a bit easier with its upcoming Patch 6
It's pretty clear that Baldur's Gate 3 was a hit by any metric, and it is an uncontroversial opinion to say that the game...
Narrative director Steve Danuser quietly left World of Warcraft last fall
It turns out that World of Warcraft's narrative director left Blizzard last November and no one said anything about it. No, that doesn't mean...
Zenith explains how its free-to-play instanced spinoff Infinite Realms uses procedural generation
So the upcoming free-to-play spinoff title for VR MMORPG Zenith, which was announced at the start of the month, is using procedural generation. How...
Final Fantasy XIV increases weekly tomestone limits with patch 6.57
You know it's late in the life cycle of a Final Fantasy XIV expansion when the game uncaps your weekly tomestones as is happening...
World of Warcraft’s Classic Hardcore mode is bringing in the Self-Found mode on February 29
Are you all proud of yourself because you reached max level in World of Warcraft? You don't really deserve to be proud of yourself...
Wisdom of Nym: What the hey is up with Final Fantasy XIV’s Xbox pricing?
In another theoretical timeline, there's a place where Final Fantasy XIV really would have stepped in it when it subtly noted that the game's...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMO systems you long ago gave up on understanding?
"I do not understand how Ninja is supposed to be played," he said, "and at this point I have given up on understanding it."...
WRUP: Taylor Swift throws the first football at the Superbowl edition
Before any contest for initial possession of the football begins, a visibly tired Taylor Swift walks onto the field wearing sweatpants, a loose blouse...
Betawatch: Skull & Bones lands washes ashore in open beta at long last
If you didn't believe that Skull and Bones would ever hit open beta, or really any beta, you aren't alone. I have been making...
Final Fantasy XI adds a new Master Trial against the guardians of Adoulin
The next major Final Fantasy XI patch will not actually involve going to war against a month, but it certainly sounds like it will....
Vague Patch Notes: MMORPGs and the PC gaming market
I find myself thinking a lot about the MMORPG industry lately and the ways in which the gaming industry as a whole has changed...
Former Overwatch 2 lead vfx artist calls out Blizzard for deceptive promotion and pay behavior
Workers and former workers at the various substudios at Activision-Blizzard have been calling it out as an unpleasant workplace for a while now since...
Into the Super-Verse: What’s wrong with City of Heroes’ Incarnate system?
It hasn't been all that long since I said that what City of Heroes needs to focus on right now is not endgame content,...
FTC files a complaint against Microsoft following Activision Blizzard layoffs
When Microsoft outlined its plans for what would happen following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, one of the things that the company stated was...
The Daily Grind: How difficult should it be to respec in an MMORPG?
It struck me the other day how my two favorite MMORPGs are wildly different in terms of respecs. Final Fantasy XIV offers effectively infinite...
Final Fantasy XI’s Valentione’s Day arrives once more with bird mating
Once again, Final Fantasy XI will spend its Valentione's Day celebrating that which matters most: bird mating. Yes, as always, the annual Valentine's Day...
Tarisland discusses its business model and in-game economy in a new video
Tarisland has airdropped in a new video about its economy this week, but the downside is that the video is a bit vague when...
