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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End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2023
Some years, it's hard to really cut a distinction between the biggest stories of a year and the biggest surprises. There can be a...
Final Fantasy XIV fans recreate the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer in the game
In Final Fantasy XIV, at no point do jack someone's sweet ride before evading the po-po because you robbed a bank. You do sort...
Final Fantasy XIV prepares another Starlight holiday event December 15 and shares dev anniversary messages
The holiday season - and arguably one of the greatest pieces of Christmas event music ever composed - is making its return to Final...
Wisdom of Nym: Still talking about Final Fantasy XIV after 13 years
This column's title is not a typo: I have been writing about Final Fantasy XIV in a weekly column for... at least 13 years...
The Stream Team: The further leveling adventures of a Final Fantasy XIV Summoner
It's time for another Eorzea Sunday stream, which means it's time for MOP's Chris to head back into the Duty Roulette with his Summoner...
Final Fantasy XI’s holiday Starlight Celebration runs December 15-31
The time has come once again for Final Fantasy XI's adventurers to celebrate the Starlight season from December 15th through December 31st, and as...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions
We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
Vague Patch Notes: Waiting for the MMORPG endings that are never coming
It took some real courage for Naoki Yoshida to get up and announce that Final Fantasy XIV was ending. After an enormously successful run,...
End-of-year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2023
When it comes to making a judgment call about the "healthiest" MMORPGs on the market at any given time, there are always plenty of...
Final Fantasy XI plans a challenge event for the community in December as part of its patch
To just look at the list breakdown of the content being added for Final Fantasy XI's December patch - the last one of the...
The Daily Grind: What was the best event in the MMO genre in 2023?
We used to run this Daily Grind as an award but canned it when we had a hard time summoning enough really stellar events...
Wisdom of Nym: Why Final Fantasy XIV fans look for messages in tea leaves from trailers
If you are not on the sinking ship that is Twitter Dot Com at this point, you have, objectively, made a good decision. But...
The Stream Team: Closing out the Coils of Bahamut raids in Final Fantasy XIV
MOP's Chris started a decade-long project in the making on his last Final Fantasy XIV stream: a first-time unsynced run through the Coils of...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO gameplay by enhancement
A while back, I was talking in the comments of an article about how bad The Secret World's combat was. It was the game's...
Final Fantasy XIV announces the streaming plans for the Tokyo Fan Festival
If you cannot make it all the way out to Tokyo for January but still really want to learn all of the new information...
Wisdom of Nym: Why Final Fantasy XIV’s next limited job is (probably) not Pictomancer or Green Mage
Despite the fact that it is not coming out until significantly later, I'm willing to bet that a large part of the work for...
The Stream Team: Exploring Final Fantasy XIV’s Binding Coil of Bahamut raid at long last
Today's Eorzea Sunday stream is a little special. MOP's Chris is once again taking on legacy (read: old) raid content in Final Fantasy XIV,...
Wisdom of Nym: When will Final Fantasy XIV head back to the Void?
Some fans were not super happy with the amount of time that Final Fantasy XIV spent on our little trip through the Void with...
The MOP Up: How about Final Fantasy XI’s new Vana’Bout?
Final Fantasy XI had a busy week with a November patch, that "includes changes to foes in Normal and Intense Ambuscades, a new battlefield...
The Stream Team: Leveling up the Summoner job in Final Fantasy XIV
MOP's Chris is heading to math school! Or more specifically, he's learning the aetheric arithmetic of the Summoner job in Final Fantasy XIV as...
