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
Vague Patch Notes: Defining classic servers and progression servers for MMOs
Something that I've been thinking about a lot over the past few days - for no particular reason - is the idea of classic...
The Stream Team: Taking some more delves into Final Fantasy XIV’s Variant dungeon
MOP's Chris is coming back to the Variant dungeon of Final Fantasy XIV once again! He's got a few more runs to go before...
Perfect Ten: 10 things to understand about MMO Bards
In the past four installments of this pseudo-series, I have done columns on archetypes that exist in every single game. Every game has a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 394: To pre-patch or not to pre-patch
Justin and Bree discuss New World's Brimstone Sands, World of Warcraft's Dragonflight prepatch, LOTRO's inbound QOL improvements, City of Heroes Homecoming's big balance patch, and FFXIV's 6.25, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and CoH, plus a mailbag topic on useless inventory clutter in MMOs.
Final Fantasy XIV details the opening of housing lotteries on its new North American servers
The addition of a new data center and a new set of servers for Final Fantasy XIV players in North America brings with it...
Wisdom of Nym: Taking stock of the additions with Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.25
Interquel patches in Final Fantasy XIV are always an odd cocktail. On the one hand, they consist of content that was intentionally held back...
One Shots: Let us tell you a fairy tale…
Just the other day I was musing about how EverQuest II feels like a forgotten MMO -- and I guess I was heard because...
Four Winds: Lost Ark and the refinement of MMO item enhance systems
In the last edition of Four Winds, I promised I'd cover how three MMOs utilized item enhance systems to facilitate progression, and then I...
The Stream Team: Halloween hijinks and Variant Dungeon crawling in Final Fantasy XIV
Today's Final Fantasy XIV stream is something of a two-for-one affair. On the one hand, we've got the new Variant Dungeon content added in...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO haunted houses to explore – if you dare….
Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...
Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.25 is live today with new types of dungeons and new quests
Are you ready for a new style of dungeon? How about helping a rabbit and a robot open a cafe at the end of...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s original Manderville Man
There are some divisive characters in Final Fantasy XIV, but in some ways Hildibrand Helidor Maximilian Manderville stands above all of them - not...
One Shots: Fresh from the portal of death
When he stepped through the portal and toward a brand-new world, this Dwarf didn't realize that he'd be disintegrated -- and an identical copy...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best online card game you’ve ever played?
I've always held fleeting love affairs with digital card games. I played a whole lot of Magic Online back in the day, not to...
Final Fantasy XIV previews a spooky new location for this year’s All Saints’ Wake
What's the first thing that the new preview of Final Fantasy XIV's All Saints' Wake event focuses on? The fact that you get a...
Massively Overthinking: Do gaming ‘tourists’ ruin MMOs?
Yes, I know that's a provocative title. Yes, we're gonna talk about it with some nuance. It's a topic inspired by a Reddit thread...
Final Fantasy XIV details the upcoming first stage of expanding the North American servers
If you were around for the launch period of Final Fantasy XIV's latest expansion launch, you know how it feels when the game's servers...
Final Fantasy XIV brings back the joy of All Saints’ Wake once more on October 19
It's time for another go-round of All Saints' Wake in Final Fantasy XIV, which is... actually something we already did this year, in January....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 392: Don’t rollback my heart
Justin and Bree discuss New World's fresh start and Brimstone Sands, expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, the sale of My.Games, Final Fantasy XIV, Mythos, Echo of Soul, Shroud of the Avatar's huge rollback, and the Secret World TTRPG Kickstarter, with adventures in WoW and SWG Legends.
MMO studios and publishers large and small come together to support Extra Life 2022
It's about that time of year when charitable drives are on the minds of many gamers, studios, and publishers, and just as last year...
