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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...

Whether or not you consider yourself too old to put on that Hulk or Sparkle Twilight costume and prance ("HULK PRANCE") around the neighborhood...

The biggest problem with job gauges in Final Fantasy XIV was always conceptual because there were two jobs built from the ground up to...

Factions in MMORPGs are a "love 'em, hate 'em, or largely ignore 'em until the studio remembers it has 'em and decides to shove...

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...

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?...

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...

While every Battle Bards episode is a cavalcade of strangeness, this week the team is ratcheting it up with the return of “Oddball” MMORPG...

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...

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...

The datamining for Final Fantasy XIV is difficult, because the game is remarkably spare when it comes to pointers for the future. Most datamining...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...