See: Final Fantasy XIV
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Final Fantasy XIV previews the second volume of its lore guide
There's a lot of lore going on behind the scenes of Final Fantasy XIV. A lot of it is up-front with quests and dungeons,...
Perfect Ten: The 10 types of skill in MMOs
Everyone has a very strong opinion about player skill in MMOs. This is understandable. Furthermore, I've met a lot of different people with different...
Wisdom of Nym: Evaluating Final Fantasy XIV’s job gauges
The biggest problem with job gauges in Final Fantasy XIV was always conceptual because there were two jobs built from the ground up to...
Global Chat: Is it time to get rid of MMO factions?
Factions in MMORPGs are a "love 'em, hate 'em, or largely ignore 'em until the studio remembers it has 'em and decides to shove...
Vague Patch Notes: How do you play MMOs when you know humans suffered to make them?
The original Star Wars film was a passion project for a then-young George Lucas, and it was a project that nearly killed Lucas from...
Wisdom of Nym: Rewards in Final Fantasy XIV and what they’re worth
I saw someone asking the other day what the "point" was to the Doman Reconstruction effort in Final Fantasy XIV. What's the big reward?...
Final Fantasy XIV prepares for this year’s ghostly All Saints’ Wake
It's time to get thoroughly spooked out in Final Fantasy XIV as All Saints' Wake returns once again. This year is even more spooky...
Battle Bards Episode 130: Oddballs 2
While every Battle Bards episode is a cavalcade of strangeness, this week the team is ratcheting it up with the return of “Oddball” MMORPG...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMO systems that encourage alts
Here's how much I like having alts: I have alts in Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI. Two games which are built on...
Final Fantasy XIV is weathering intermittent DDOS attacks
Ah, the DDOS attack, a time-honored way of making a large number of players upset simply because someone can. Final Fantasy XIV has been...
Wisdom of Nym: What can datamining tell us about the next Final Fantasy XIV job?
The datamining for Final Fantasy XIV is difficult, because the game is remarkably spare when it comes to pointers for the future. Most datamining...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s leaks and the seduction of partial information
I'm going to start off with a statement that should be fairly uncontroversial but could be otherwise and refer back to it: At this...
Final Fantasy XIV shares some fifth anniversary infographics
After five years of operation there are lots of numbers to know about Final Fantasy XIV. Long-time players already know several numbers, like item...
Vague Patch Notes: World of Warcraft, math, and making choices ‘interesting’ in MMOs
So if you somehow managed to miss it, let me recap: World of Warcraft's community manager Lore recently gave some feedback on the many complaints...
Perfect Ten: The big book of MMORPG death mechanics
Video games will kill your characters. It's inevitable. I still faintly remember my younger brother's first video game death, when he ran full-tilt into...
Wisdom of Nym: Examining Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 4.4, Prelude in Violet
I mentioned a few days ago that I follow the same somewhat ridiculous process every time there's a new Final Fantasy XIV patch. Every...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG, living or dead, offers the all-time best crafting experience?
Over the last couple of weeks, when I was putting in sometimes 18-hour days working on the site, I didn't really have much time...
Interview: Bless Online on early access, pay-to-win, and its western refuge on Steam
Last night's bombshell that Bless Online is closing down its final Korean servers, leaving the game's Steam version in the west as the only...
Final Fantasy XIV offers a UI guide and opens up its roleplaying server
It wasn't a feature of the game's most recent patch, but Final Fantasy XIV did something almost inconceivable yesterday: It opened up Balmung for...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Prelude in Violet is live today
It's time to explore the wreckage left after the most recent bit of Final Fantasy XIV's story with the latest patch because the new...