See: Final Fantasy XIV
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One Shots: Entering the portal to adventure
I'll never get tired of that tiny thrill of rolling a new character and getting that sense of taking the first steps of a...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions
We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
Vague Patch Notes: Waiting for the MMORPG endings that are never coming
It took some real courage for Naoki Yoshida to get up and announce that Final Fantasy XIV was ending. After an enormously successful run,...
End-of-year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2023
When it comes to making a judgment call about the "healthiest" MMORPGs on the market at any given time, there are always plenty of...
The Daily Grind: What was the best event in the MMO genre in 2023?
We used to run this Daily Grind as an award but canned it when we had a hard time summoning enough really stellar events...
Wisdom of Nym: Why Final Fantasy XIV fans look for messages in tea leaves from trailers
If you are not on the sinking ship that is Twitter Dot Com at this point, you have, objectively, made a good decision. But...
The Stream Team: Closing out the Coils of Bahamut raids in Final Fantasy XIV
MOP's Chris started a decade-long project in the making on his last Final Fantasy XIV stream: a first-time unsynced run through the Coils of...
One Shots: Fishing for a compliment
When life's moving a little too fast in your MMORPG, maybe it's time to take a break, dig out the ol' rod-and-reel, and pluck...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO gameplay by enhancement
A while back, I was talking in the comments of an article about how bad The Secret World's combat was. It was the game's...
Final Fantasy XIV announces the streaming plans for the Tokyo Fan Festival
If you cannot make it all the way out to Tokyo for January but still really want to learn all of the new information...
Wisdom of Nym: Why Final Fantasy XIV’s next limited job is (probably) not Pictomancer or Green Mage
Despite the fact that it is not coming out until significantly later, I'm willing to bet that a large part of the work for...
The Stream Team: Exploring Final Fantasy XIV’s Binding Coil of Bahamut raid at long last
Today's Eorzea Sunday stream is a little special. MOP's Chris is once again taking on legacy (read: old) raid content in Final Fantasy XIV,...
One Shots: Soft and squishy, yet fierce and determined
If MMORPGs, anime, and children's cartoons have taught me anything -- and really, it's where I get most of my learning these days --...
Wisdom of Nym: When will Final Fantasy XIV head back to the Void?
Some fans were not super happy with the amount of time that Final Fantasy XIV spent on our little trip through the Void with...
The MOP Up: How about Final Fantasy XI’s new Vana’Bout?
Final Fantasy XI had a busy week with a November patch, that "includes changes to foes in Normal and Intense Ambuscades, a new battlefield...
The Stream Team: Leveling up the Summoner job in Final Fantasy XIV
MOP's Chris is heading to math school! Or more specifically, he's learning the aetheric arithmetic of the Summoner job in Final Fantasy XIV as...
One Shots: Lightning strikes twice
When you see lightning on the horizon, it may be time to seek shelter, brew a favorite hot beverage, and settle in for a...
Final Fantasy XIV will run a cloud server stress test on November 20
Server hardware has been an ongoing thing for Final Fantasy XIV, so it's probably not a huge shock that the developers are seeing how...
Massively Overthinking: Pervasive old MMO ideas that aren’t really true
A while back, Eliot and I were discussing one of his columns, in which he noted that in the eldest of the elder MMOs,...
Wisdom of Nym: The best stuff from Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 that’s already in the game
Whatever we were getting back from Final Fantasy XIV version 1.0 is already in the game. Period end. And let's be honest, there was...
