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Square-Enix Q3 2022: Final Fantasy XIV subs continue to grow along with company’s NFT aspirations
We are now officially in that time of the year when financial reports start flying around the digital room, so today we turn our...
Destiny 2 outlines the current areas of balance concerns and planned adjustments for Season 19
Sometimes a five-point change makes a big difference. The latest development dispatch from Bungie regarding Destiny 2 moving into Season 19 is all about...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida sparks backlash over a bad answer to questions on diversity in Final Fantasy XVI
Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida has long been held up as a shining example of what can be expected of someone...
Massively Overthinking: Would you do hard MMO content without rewards?
Are you here for the challenge or here for the shinies? That's the core question the MOP team and audience is tackling this week...
Vague Patch Notes: The art of picking winners and losers in MMO design
There's a meme that's gone around the Final Fantasy XIV community sphere for a while, and I'm going to try my best to explain...
Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.28 arrives with an assortment of damage buffs for various jobs
It's a nice day today to be a Black Mage, or a Machinist, or a Warrior in Final Fantasy XIV. The game's latest patch...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s potential future destinations and expansions for Variant Dungeons
As I discussed when the actual patch came out, I was somewhat less than enamored with Final Fantasy XIV's first Variant Dungeon. It's not...
One Shots: Hamming it up for Halloween
It's that time of year again! That's right, it's National Cat Day (October 29th)! So find the nearest cat, bow deeply to it, and...
The Daily Grind: What was the reason you quit your last MMO?
The other day I was thinking about returning to Final Fantasy XIV -- I seem to do this on an annual basis, for some...
Final Fantasy XIV’s next live letter is scheduled for November 11
The time of Final Fantasy XIV's next major patch is drawing closer, and you can find that out for yourself by looking at the...
Vague Patch Notes: Defining classic servers and progression servers for MMOs
Something that I've been thinking about a lot over the past few days - for no particular reason - is the idea of classic...
DC Universe Online brings new missions, raids, and gear with the Sins of Black Adam update
In case the returning Secrets of Khandaq Time Capsule wasn't enough Black Adam in your DC Universe Online diet, today's Sins of Black Adam...
The Stream Team: Taking some more delves into Final Fantasy XIV’s Variant dungeon
MOP's Chris is coming back to the Variant dungeon of Final Fantasy XIV once again! He's got a few more runs to go before...
Perfect Ten: 10 things to understand about MMO Bards
In the past four installments of this pseudo-series, I have done columns on archetypes that exist in every single game. Every game has a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 394: To pre-patch or not to pre-patch
Justin and Bree discuss New World's Brimstone Sands, World of Warcraft's Dragonflight prepatch, LOTRO's inbound QOL improvements, City of Heroes Homecoming's big balance patch, and FFXIV's 6.25, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and CoH, plus a mailbag topic on useless inventory clutter in MMOs.
Final Fantasy XIV details the opening of housing lotteries on its new North American servers
The addition of a new data center and a new set of servers for Final Fantasy XIV players in North America brings with it...
Wisdom of Nym: Taking stock of the additions with Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.25
Interquel patches in Final Fantasy XIV are always an odd cocktail. On the one hand, they consist of content that was intentionally held back...
One Shots: Let us tell you a fairy tale…
Just the other day I was musing about how EverQuest II feels like a forgotten MMO -- and I guess I was heard because...
DC Universe Online brings back the Secrets of Khandaq Time Capsule
Next week will see the Sins of Black Adam storyline arrive in DC Universe Online, but maybe you just can't wait that long for...
Four Winds: Lost Ark and the refinement of MMO item enhance systems
In the last edition of Four Winds, I promised I'd cover how three MMOs utilized item enhance systems to facilitate progression, and then I...
