Studio: Square Enix
Launch Date: September 30, 2010; relaunched August 27, 2013
Genre: Fantasy Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, PS3, PS4
final fantasy xiv
Official Site: Final Fantasy XIV
Studio: Square Enix
Launch Date: September 30, 2010; relaunched August 27, 2013
Genre: Fantasy Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, PS3, PS4
Studio: Square Enix
Launch Date: September 30, 2010; relaunched August 27, 2013
Genre: Fantasy Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, PS3, PS4
One Shots: Familiar and welcome lands
Welcome back home! That feels like the sentiment that WoW Classic gave when it launched recently. Players absolutely swarmed to these servers, many of...
Final Fantasy XIV teams up with Pusheen for even more cat antics than normal
We all know that Final Fantasy XIV is a game of cats. Sure, it's also a game of rabbits, lizards, and very occasionally dragons, but first...
The Soapbox: There is no MMO that can fix a broken MMO community
We've heard again and again how the recently launched World of Warcraft: Classic was going to "fix" the MMO community by stripping away modern...
Leaderboard: Does Guild Wars 2 need another expansion?
If you've followed NCsoft's quarterly investor reports for the last many years, you've probably seen dozens graphs of Guild Wars 2's revenues and the...
Final Fantasy XIV is experimenting with social media support through November
If you've got an issue with your Final Fantasy XIV account, you have another way of getting support through November 29th. Square-Enix has announced the...
Final Fantasy XIV’s second anniversary story follows the path of Estinien’s travels
The anniversary fiction for Final Fantasy XIV is as much of a tradition as the actual in-game event for the rising, and this year is...
Massively Uplifting: LOTRO community events, appreciative FFXIV fans, and making gaming accessible
Just because it's the hottest month of the year doesn't mean we don't want to bury ourselves in warm fuzzies! Positivity is always welcome...
Wisdom of Nym: Checking the health of Final Fantasy XIV’s healing metagame in Shadowbringers
One of the stated reasons for not getting a new healing job with Shadowbringers is essentially that the development team wanted to work on the...
One Shots: All the awesome you can handle
One day when I grow up, I hope to be half as amazing and down-to-earth cool as most of our One Shots community here....
Final Fantasy XIV schedules its first patch 5.1 preview for mid-September
Before we hit the three-month mark out from Final Fantasy XIV's early access for Shadowbringers, it's time to start talking about the first major patch of...
Final Fantasy XIV buffs up job potencies in patch 5.08
The latest patch for Final Fantasy XIV has arrived, but it's not one of the game's immense content patches. No, this one is all about...
Perfect Ten: The fantasy MMO zone atlas
There are, let's face it, a limited number of different ways to design real-adjacent zones in any fantasy game. At the end of the...
Final Fantasy XIV is holding its anniversary sale and putting out its annual short stories
Another anniversary for Final Fantasy XIV has rolled around, and that of course means new short fiction detailing character stories that tie into the...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s sixth year is the Shadowbringers high
Let's look back at the sixth year of Final Fantasy XIV since its relaunch, shall we? Six times we've had a Rising celebration to...
Square Enix vows to support Final Fantasy XIV instead of working on another MMO sequel
Regular readers will note that Final Fantasy XIV earned our MMORPG of the Year award last year, with many of the staff citing the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the best (worst?) at ruining classes?
A recent thread on the MMORPG subreddit caught my attention: Do you ever dread what's gonna happen to your class when an expansion is...
Massively Overthinking: Problematic faves in MMOs
A while back, a reader suggested that it was impossible for a fan who loves something to recognize its shortcomings, and I was taken...
Final Fantasy XIV player offers up a set of music covers presented as a rhythm game
Is Final Fantasy XIV's Bard only a way to do solid ranged damage with some party-wide utility? Nope, it's also a music-making fiend, and...
The Rising returns to Final Fantasy XIV on August 26
Another year has passed, and that means it's time to celebrate the anniversary of Final Fantasy XIV once again with the annual return of...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s moving violations
Here's a bit of full disclosure: I still cannot reach the top of Kugane's tower to this day. It's the one jumping puzzle that...
