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Massively Overthinking: If an MMO item is buyable with gold, does that excuse its presence in the cash shop?

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This week's Overthinking topic comes from longtime MOP reader and commenter Sally Bowls. It's about monetization, but it's a nuanced argument we don't see...
Pictured: Love.

Final Fantasy XI makes Rangers faster and adds new monthly objectives

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Rangers are just faster with the newest version update for Final Fantasy XI. They don't move faster, but with Velocity Shot down to a 60 second...
What are we even doing here?

Wisdom of Nym: A measured response to Naoki Yoshida’s mystery project

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Well hello there, news on April 1st. I really have a tendency not to put much stock in anything revealed on April Fools' Day because...
Tinkering.

Perfect Ten: MMO celebrations that didn’t rip off real-world holidays

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Does it ever slightly bother you that in these alternate fantasy and science fiction worlds that we explore there just so happens to have...
All right!

Dragon Quest X will shutter in China on May 30

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And now, we announce the closure of a Square-Enix MMO. No, not Final Fantasy XIV and not Final Fantasy XI; those are both going strong, obviously. It's Dragon...
So... we cool, huh? We cool?

Wisdom of Nym: Thoughts on the end of Final Fantasy XIV’s 4.x story

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So now we've gotten the ending. And... gosh, sometimes these patches really do not merit splitting up, which is kind of the case for Final Fantasy...
It's a jumping-off point.

Final Fantasy XIV brings back Hatching-tide on April 9

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The war at the Ala Mhigan border has spun into a stalemate, there's the promise of having to travel to the First, and there...
Everything's about proper literacy with you!

Wisdom of Nym: All of the shards in Final Fantasy XIV

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Look, the date of this article is a complete coincidence. Obviously, we're going to the First in Final Fantasy XIV's next expansion. We know that...
Are you a door or not?!

Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida is overseeing a new project that may very well be another big online game

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We don't know what it will include. We don't know when it will be released. We don't even have a title. What we do have...
Llook out, Llary! It's the llandlllord!

Massively Overpowered feature patch notes for April Oneth

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Here at Massively Overpowered, we're always doing our best to make use of our staff's particular talents. We make sure to have Justin saying...

One Shots: CatDog, CatDog

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The second I saw Hirku's picture of his Warframe pet, the lyrics of Nickelodeon's CatDog came to mind: One fine day with a woof...
Unembraced.

Final Fantasy XIV preps for its European data center split starting on April 2nd

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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...
Contains some monsters.

Final Fantasy XI introduces monthly Records of Eminence objectives with its April update

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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...
More yay, but also less.

Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida is taking fan feedback into account for Hrothgar and Viera

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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

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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

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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

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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.
But how bad are we talking, here?

Final Fantasy XIV prepares for the third expansion with patch 4.56

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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...
The other side.

Wisdom of Nym: Reactions to the Final Fantasy XIV Tokyo Fan Festival

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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

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When you cover a metric ton of MMOs and other related games professionally, it becomes an interesting task to keep them all straight in...

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