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Wisdom of Nym: Initial impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Crossroads dungeon and alliance raid
It's interesting to me how often Final Fantasy XIV patches are inconsistent when it comes to what makes them interesting. This is perhaps not...
Vague Patch Notes: Going solo isn’t a problem in MMORPGs
So I'm wrapping up a month of talking about how MMORPGs are by necessity social games. These are games in which you need other...
Perfect Ten: Why I still love Final Fantasy XI today
You know what's really funny to me when I think about it for more than five minutes? Final Fantasy XI is, at this point,...
Final Fantasy XI unleashes its higher-level Besieged enemies and offers players a survey
If you've been away from Al Zahbi for too long, Final Fantasy XI's latest patch aims to fix that. Not only does Besieged now...
Final Fantasy XIV’s first post-Dawntrail content update, Crossroads, is officially live
"Our journey will never end" is a lyrical refrain from a few songs in Final Fantasy XIV, and that proves to be true once...
Vague Patch Notes: Living like a rock in MMORPGs
So if you are anything close to my age, you probably do not think of Simon & Garfunkel's music as being anything remotely "raw."...
Wisdom of Nym: The key takeaways from Final Fantasy XIV’s Crossroads live letter
I haven't exactly been shy about mentioning that 2024 has been a terrible year for me, but then I look at the trailer for...
Perfect Ten: The 10 types of tanks in MMORPGs
I've been thinking a fair bit about player archetypes lately, and that also means that I've been thinking about the variants within roles. While...
Wisdom of Nym: Contrasting the storytelling of Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI
We've just started what may be the second major arc in Final Fantasy XIV... maybe. Like, the developers are understandably reluctant to commit to...
Design Mockument: Alternate trinities in MMORPGs and the challenge of other roles
The trinity has been a truism of MMO design now for about as long as it wasn't. I came up during the small times...
Wisdom of Nym: The dark side of role quests in Final Fantasy XIV
I haven't been shy talking about liking the role quests that are currently available in Dawntrail. Indeed, I think that Final Fantasy XIV has...
Massively Overthinking: How do you stop MMOs from feeling like (or becoming) a part-time job?
In last week's Choose My Adventure, MOP's Chris penned a perfect paragraph summing up the paradox of MMORPGs - it doesn't even matter what...
Vague Patch Notes: What is good meaningful leveling in MMORPGs?
All right. So we are here at long last, at the end of Leveling Month, although it's actually more like Month And A Bit....
Final Fantasy XI’s October update improves gamepad support
If you want to play Final Fantasy XI on your PlayStation 2 right now... you can't. The game has been only supported on the...
Vague Patch Notes: The dark side of meaningful MMO leveling
We've been in Leveling Month over here in Vague Patch Notes, and I had intended for this particular column to close off that discussion...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you bring a whole squad of pets and minions
Pet classes are not really my jam. I don't want my companion to be doing the tanking or damage or healing or whatever, and...
Wisdom of Nym: The key takeaways from Final Fantasy XIV’s Crossroads update live letter
I can't believe that after we've gone so many different places, at long last, Final Fantasy XIV is going to have Soken do a...
Final Fantasy XIV shows off patch 7.1, Crossroads, including a new alliance raid difficulty and new housing options
The next patch for Final Fantasy XIV is on its way, with patch 7.1, Crossroads, scheduled for a mid-November launch. As is tradition, producer...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO memories we never want to repeat
A random quote I saw buried in the comments on the MMORPG subreddit a while ago really hit hard. Extra_Midnight wrote,
"Some of my most...
Vague Patch Notes: When slow leveling is a problem in MMORPGs
Last week in Vague Patch Notes, I talked about leveling. At the very end of the column, I mentioned that slow leveling or fast...
