Disambiguation:
– Final Fantasy XI, an MMORPG released in 2002
– Final Fantasy XIV, an MMORPG released in 2010 and re-released in 2013
– Final Fantasy series, a series of video games that began in 1987
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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite Final Fantasy XIV job?
I went back to Final Fantasy XIV this week, and apart from still not being able to create a character on my preferred server...
Yoshida celebrates one year of Final Fantasy XIV in China
Final Fantasy XIV guru Naoki Yoshida headlined a one-year anniversary celebration for the game in China this week. He revealed that FFXIV version 3.0...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s crafting and gathering endgame in Heavensward
Crafting and gathering has never been a primary goal of mine in Final Fantasy XIV so much as a secondary one. It's something extra...
Perfect Ten: The 10 MMO memories we all have
I have been playing MMOs with varying degrees of intensity for the past 12Â years. That is really weird to me. It also means that...
Jukebox Heroes: My top six favorite MMO soundtracks of all time
In ranking MMO soundtracks, there are a lot of ways to do it. You can pull out individual tracks or praise a game for...
Wisdom of Nym: The state of Final Fantasy XIV’s melee DPS
I main melee DPS on my main character in Final Fantasy XIV, but it was never really by design. Originally I was quite happy...
The MOP Up: Another stab at Game of Thrones
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we're deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Final Fantasy XI releasing high-level remixes of classic battles with its next update
The final update for Final Fantasy XI is due out in November, but there's life in the game yet before that happens, and there...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 27: SmedSoft
Justin and Bree discuss Smed's new company, EQII's prison server, Champions Online, FFXIV, Trove, and Revival's housing, plus mailbag questions on NCsoft and terrible graphics.
Wisdom of Nym: Two years since Final Fantasy XIV’s relaunch
I remember a couple of years ago, in February, getting ready to fly across the country for Final Fantasy XIV's big press event. I...
Final Fantasy XIV’s anniversary broadcast reveals plenty of content for patch 3.1
Back on April 1st of this year, the developers behind Final Fantasy XIV made a joke about developing a strategy game in which you...
One Shots: Quiet grace
When I take pictures of people in real life, I almost never ask them to pose. That feels so artificial to me; I'd rather...
Leaderboard: Have you gotten married in an MMO?
TERA patched a wedding chapel into the lands of Arborea yesterday, and the occasion got me to wondering about holy matrimony in various other...
The Soapbox: These three MMOs deserve a do-over
Wouldn't it be cool if every MMORPG that failed to reach its potential were granted some sort of do-over? We've seen it happen once, with...
Final Fantasy XIV boasts 5 million registered accounts
Let's start this news item with an important caveat - we don't know how many actual active subscribers Final Fantasy XIV has at the...
Perfect Ten: Mobile MMOs coming soon to a pocket near you
It may be true that interest in playing and developing mobile games has peaked, although personally I very much like mobile gaming. On the...
Final Fantasy XIV previews its anniversary event
It's been just about two years since Final Fantasy XIV relaunched and surprised more or less everyone by being an enormous success story. Not...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s events, anniversaries, and content
I don't know whether we're actually going to have a proper two-year anniversary event in Final Fantasy XIV. It feels very strange to say...
Final Fantasy XIV launches in South Korea to solid internet cafe stats
Final Fantasy XIV's launch in South Korea happened too recently to make any declarations about its long-term fate. What can be said with certainty,...
Guild Chat: What to do when your guildies buy illegal MMO gold
Hello, readers, and welcome along to my cozy little corner where we get together to help a reader in need with a guild-related issue....
