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See: Final Fantasy XI

Seriously.

Vague Patch Notes: Nostalgia isn’t the problem with pining for your MMO past

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So it hasn't been long since World of Warcraft launched a new set of WoW Classic servers, except this time it's WoW Classic Classic,...
Fine.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV Mobile might not be for you, and that’s fine

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Ugh. Do I have to? Yes, apparently I have to. Let's talk about Final Fantasy XIV Mobile as a new thing related to Final...
Shock, awe.

Wisdom of Nym: Initial impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Crossroads dungeon and alliance raid

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It's interesting to me how often Final Fantasy XIV patches are inconsistent when it comes to what makes them interesting. This is perhaps not...
Hardly lonely.

Vague Patch Notes: Going solo isn’t a problem in MMORPGs

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So I'm wrapping up a month of talking about how MMORPGs are by necessity social games. These are games in which you need other...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: Why I still love Final Fantasy XI today

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You know what's really funny to me when I think about it for more than five minutes? Final Fantasy XI is, at this point,...
Oh yeah.

Final Fantasy XI unleashes its higher-level Besieged enemies and offers players a survey

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If you've been away from Al Zahbi for too long, Final Fantasy XI's latest patch aims to fix that. Not only does Besieged now...

Final Fantasy XIV’s first post-Dawntrail content update, Crossroads, is officially live

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"Our journey will never end" is a lyrical refrain from a few songs in Final Fantasy XIV, and that proves to be true once...
Hello Paul. Hello Art.

Vague Patch Notes: Living like a rock in MMORPGs

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So if you are anything close to my age, you probably do not think of Simon & Garfunkel's music as being anything remotely "raw."...
Eye see.

Final Fantasy XI’s November update adds higher-level Besieged content

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Besieged used to be a big deal for Final Fantasy XI, but in large part the game has moved on from when the content...
We have fun here (I don't)

Wisdom of Nym: The key takeaways from Final Fantasy XIV’s Crossroads live letter

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I haven't exactly been shy about mentioning that 2024 has been a terrible year for me, but then I look at the trailer for...
SIR

Perfect Ten: The 10 types of tanks in MMORPGs

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I've been thinking a fair bit about player archetypes lately, and that also means that I've been thinking about the variants within roles. While...
VOID

Wisdom of Nym: Contrasting the storytelling of Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI

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We've just started what may be the second major arc in Final Fantasy XIV... maybe. Like, the developers are understandably reluctant to commit to...
my head hurts

Design Mockument: Alternate trinities in MMORPGs and the challenge of other roles

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The trinity has been a truism of MMO design now for about as long as it wasn't. I came up during the small times...
Trick Angels.

Final Fantasy XI kicks off the Harvest Festival on October 25

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It's almost Halloween, and Final Fantasy XI is honor-bound to have a Halloween event since it originally launched in North America when its Halloween...
Pop?

Wisdom of Nym: The dark side of role quests in Final Fantasy XIV

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I haven't been shy talking about liking the role quests that are currently available in Dawntrail. Indeed, I think that Final Fantasy XIV has...
Keep your cat in a box.

Massively Overthinking: How do you stop MMOs from feeling like (or becoming) a part-time job?

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In last week's Choose My Adventure, MOP's Chris penned a perfect paragraph summing up the paradox of MMORPGs - it doesn't even matter what...
Sorry for blur.

Vague Patch Notes: What is good meaningful leveling in MMORPGs?

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All right. So we are here at long last, at the end of Leveling Month, although it's actually more like Month And A Bit....
They're friends.

Final Fantasy XI’s October update improves gamepad support

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If you want to play Final Fantasy XI on your PlayStation 2 right now... you can't. The game has been only supported on the...
It's a tiny little sprout thing. It might kill you.

Vague Patch Notes: The dark side of meaningful MMO leveling

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We've been in Leveling Month over here in Vague Patch Notes, and I had intended for this particular column to close off that discussion...
There were some decent tabletop Star Trek games, but no.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you bring a whole squad of pets and minions

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Pet classes are not really my jam. I don't want my companion to be doing the tanking or damage or healing or whatever, and...

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