Studio:Â Square Enix
Launch Date: September 30, 2010; relaunched August 27, 2013
Genre:Â Fantasy Hybrid Themepark
Business Model:Â Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, PS3, PS4
final fantasy xiv
Official Site:Â Final Fantasy XIV
Studio:Â Square Enix
Launch Date: September 30, 2010; relaunched August 27, 2013
Genre:Â Fantasy Hybrid Themepark
Business Model:Â Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, PS3, PS4
Studio:Â Square Enix
Launch Date: September 30, 2010; relaunched August 27, 2013
Genre:Â Fantasy Hybrid Themepark
Business Model:Â Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, PS3, PS4
One Shots: Check out my nifty bone collection
Some might come upon giant piles of bones in MMORPGs and assume that the Evil Presence is trying to be super-intimidating, but nothing could...
Battle Bards Episode 213: Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker
The END(walker) of Final Fantasy XIV came, went, and brought us some excellent music along the way! In this episode of the Battle Bards,...
The Soapbox: Are modern games more disposable than ever?
Atlas Rogues went out not with a bang but a whimper. I forgot it even existed. And after it closes July 5th, it's gone....
Final Fantasy XIV posts new images of patch 6.15 content ahead of its release June 7
If you've been eagerly looking forward to raising your reputation with the elephantine Arkasodara, delivering packages to Alisaie and Alphinaud's mom, or just finding...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida skipped Final Fantasy XI at launch to play Dark Age of Camelot
Naoki Yoshida is best known for his role as the producer and director of Final Fantasy XIV, but the fact of the matter is...
Perfect Ten: Weird ways we heal each other in MMORPGs
One of the most important implications of the virtual worlds we visit is that they all boast medical care far above and beyond anything...
The Daily Grind: How much does an MMO’s population influence your perception of its success?
A few weeks back, there was a flurry of panic on Reddit over the realization that Final Fantasy XIV's Steam counts had fallen 70%...
Wisdom of Nym: Reconsidering Final Fantasy XIV’s Primals
Back in the early days of Final Fantasy XIV, Primals were kind of a big deal. Not the biggest deal in the game's lore...
The Stream Team: Riding the Trusts train to some Reaper levels in Final Fantasy XIV
Hey kids! Are you sick and tired of waiting forever for a queue to pop whenever you level a DPS class in Final Fantasy...
One Shots: Modern vampire home decorating
Forget the dusty castles and damp basements of your father's Transylvania; the modern, on-the-go vampire has a refined taste that apparently includes neon caskets...
Final Fantasy XIV plans for the Make It Rain campaign while explaining its PvP balance mistake
The team behind PvP balancing in Final Fantasy XIV made a mistake, and producer and director Naoki Yoshida is owning up to it in...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMO will be next to raise its subscription?
Almost three years ago, our writers and readers came together for a discussion about whether the age of the $15 subscription was coming to...
Vague Patch Notes: The specter of MMO persistence in single-player games
Recently, we got a great letter from a listener asking about an issue that he'd been having with single-player games compared to MMOs. Essentially,...
Final Fantasy XIV’s producer and director explains packet loss and reporting on internet issues
Here's the good news for most of the people reading this: You are probably not being affected by packet loss issues while playing Final...
Perfect Ten: 10 great ways to lose new players from your MMO
MMOs require new blood. Not exclusively or anything; you can keep an MMO going for quite some time on existing happy players. But existing...
Final Fantasy XIV patches in some more PvP balance tweaks
If you're still not interested in PvP in Final Fantasy XIV despite the most recent patch's changes, the newly released patch 6.11a for the...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV and the risk of job overload
All right, let's start this column with a little thought exercise. I want you to come up with a weapon and a general flow...
One Shots: That time when the Matrix discovered that it was in another Matrix
As we all know by now, the Matrix is everywhere, and we've consigned ourselves to a lifetime of being a battery for robots. Which...
Perfect Ten: MMO critters so cute it makes your teeth hurt
I vividly remember a conversation I had with my then-girlfriend's parents back in 1996 about the potential of this growing "internet" phenomenon. With my...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 373: Bots are bad, ‘mkay?
Just and Bree discuss Lost Ark's bots, FFXIV's mods, Star Trek Online's Stormfall, Elder Scrolls Online's High Isle, and Wrath Classic beta, with adventures in LOTRO and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on Black Desert's perceived decline.
