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I once heard it said that a popular studio - I think it was Blizzard - made it a point of asking prospective developers...

People who have read my work for a while know that I really like tabletop roleplaying, and I have copies of two of my...

Sunday will be the one-month anniversary of Final Fantasy XIV's third expansion launching into early access, which means that players have been deep into...

Here's something fun for the Final Fantasy XIV players wondering about a lore-appropriate name for a Viera: If you changed the character but haven't...

I don't see a lot of chatter about it, but from talking with some of my Final Fantasy XIV-playing friends, Stormblood was at best...

Oh sure, we all say that we're impartial and we love all our alts the same... but admit it, there is one race that...

Let's take a trip back to the dewy slopes of June 2006, when Chris Metzen addressed the question of how the lore of the...

There's roleplaying in MMORPGs, and then there is playing a role! We're talking pixelated actors performing live theater within a virtual world. Yes, it's...

So now that Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers has been released, basically everyone playing the game has completely forgotten that the expansion actually prompted some...

Your first experience with something has an outsized importance. This feels like one of those statements people really want to argue with sometimes but...

We're only now in the middle of July, but so far it feels as though summer 2019 has been a non-stop rollercoaster of great...

If you're eager to take on the biggest challenges the world of the First has to offer, today brings you something new to handle....

So, here's the genesis of this particular column: Originally, my plan was to actually just talk about story beats from Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers...

So Final Fantasy XIV has added the Black Fat Chocobo to the game in various regions, and each region seems to be getting different...

It's hard to deny the fact that this July, half of the online gaming population seems to be immersed into FFXIV's Shadowbringers expansion. And...

I suppose we all need to accept the new reality, which is that we're only starting to see the tsunami of Final Fantasy XIV...

Yes, it's time for the first patch to Final Fantasy XIV since its most recent expansion, and... oh, stop staring in dumbfounded shock and...

There are, at the time I write this, two basic approaches for getting new players up to speed in existing MMOs. Both of them...

If you're really tired of waiting for the mobile version of Final Fantasy XI, perhaps you're willing to go a bit more low-tech with...

We have all been there with subscription MMORPGs, where we go to unsubscribe and after a mild guilt trip, the cancellation screen asks us...