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
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 373: Bots are bad, ‘mkay?
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This particular column was inspired by a question by regular reader, commenter, and friend to man and beast alike Scott Leyes, who originally posed...
One Shots: Ideal locales for tourist traps
Sometimes I wonder if our adventurers in these virtual worlds stumble upon locales so pretty and arresting that they pause and go, "You know...
Storyboard: The fatal flaw of overreaching villain plans in MMOs plotlines
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Massively Overthinking: If you could change one thing about an MMO…
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Perfect Ten: The many-colored dragon rainbow of the MMO sphere
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Final Fantasy XIV finally issues bans to some streamers over addons
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One Shots: Chicken wing delivery
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Massively Overthinking: The minimum requirements for MMO player housing
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Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida confirms that work is already taking place on the story for 7.0
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