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Final Fantasy XIV preps for its European data center split starting on April 2nd
It's not the launch of the third Final Fantasy XIV expansion, but the splitting of the European and North American data centers is one of...
Final Fantasy XI introduces monthly Records of Eminence objectives with its April update
There's a lot of stuff to be gotten from Final Fantasy XI's Records of Eminence, but a lot of what you're getting amounts to currency...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida is taking fan feedback into account for Hrothgar and Viera
There are a lot of people excited to play Viera and Hrothgar in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. There are also a lot of people...
Waven enters closed alpha and Wakfu buffs up dungeon Stasis levels
There's apparently a chronology to the games being kicked out by Ankama Group -- a tidbit I had no idea about until I started...
Desert Oasis: Reframing player perceptions of Pearl Abyss’ MMO Black Desert
Hello and welcome to our revival of the Black Desert column! The Desert Nomad decided it was time to reroll for the new meta, and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 213: FFXIV’s first world problems
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's controversial reveals, WoW level squish, Albion Online F2P, Glitch, Age of Conan, and Google Stadia, with adventures in Trove, SWG, Starmourn, LOTRO, and Rock Band, and mailbag letter on feeling perpetually behind in MMOs.
Final Fantasy XIV prepares for the third expansion with patch 4.56
We know that the third expansion of Final Fantasy XIV is sending us into the Light-suffused First, a chance for us to do our best...
Wisdom of Nym: Reactions to the Final Fantasy XIV Tokyo Fan Festival
So we've now had our final fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV, and for heaven's sake we managed to get one big hype-derailing moment...
Jukebox Heroes: Rappelz’ soundtrack
When you cover a metric ton of MMOs and other related games professionally, it becomes an interesting task to keep them all straight in...
FFXIV Fan Festival Tokyo 2019: Travel to the First with Hrothgar and Dancers
The third and final Final Fantasy XIV fan festival for Shadowbringers kicked off on Friday evening in by North American time schedules. We even...
FFXIV Fan Festival Tokyo 2019: Liveblog of the opening keynote
Here we are at long last. If you're anything like me, you've been looking forward to this event since Final Fantasy XIV first delivered...
Massively Overthinking: Designed downtime in MMORPGs
In a Daily Grind not long ago, MOP reader Armsbend said something I thought just cried out for discussion. After noting that he had...
Final Fantasy XIV updates its official preview site for the release of patch 4.56
The hour fast approaches to conclude the Stormblood story and lead into Shadowbringers in Final Fantasy XIV. Unfortunately for fans eagerly awaiting this conclusion, that hour does...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever regretted not playing MMORPGs?
A few weeks back there was a post on the MMORPG subreddit from a dude who said he actually regretted not playing MMOs more....
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on the Tokyo Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival
This one feels as if it took half of forever. Combined with the leaks, the lack of hints, the speculation, and the general lack...
Final Fantasy XI development is focusing on something ‘that can surprise everyone later on’
The amount of support that Final Fantasy XI gets in a declared maintenance mode is in and of itself surprising, but that is apparently not...
Global Chat: Parting ways with Cryptic’s Foundry
It's a sad and regrettable situation for Cryptic to be closing one of its most unique features -- and in two games, no less....
Battle Bards Episode 140: Piano piano!
It’s one of the most powerful and versatile of musical instruments, and now the piano is getting its own featured show here on Battle...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs as distraction vs. culture
Earlier this month, there was a fascinating conversation swirling around a Gamasutra article by Bryant Francis, specifically a quote from game dev Patric Mondou. "We're moving away...
PAX East 2019: Final Fantasy XIV and The Elder Scrolls Online show off for the convention
PAX East 2019 approaches, and it's got a rather eclectic collection of things on display, but that includes at least a couple of big...