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Massively Overthinking: Is old-school MMO dungeon-camping ever coming back?
A while ago on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I randomly wound up on the topic of camping in MMOs - not pitching a...
Final Fantasy XI and Ragnarok Online studio heads look to the future and discuss classic servers
The 20th anniversary site for Final Fantasy XI continues to offer new interviews, and the latest one caps off a series of discussions with...
Vague Patch Notes: The many flavors of ‘boosting’ in the MMO genre
The other day MOP's Bree and I were having a discussion about boosting. This is not entirely unusual, but it was unusual insofar as...
Final Fantasy XIV teases patch 6.2, Buried Memory, while announcing a North American data center expansion delay
So there's good news and bad news for Final Fantasy XIV fans this morning. Let's start with the good news: The teaser site for...
Final Fantasy XIV updates players on changes to tomestones and the end of a PvP series
If you've been holding on to some old Allagan Tomestones from back in Shadowbringers, it's time to trade them in. That's the message for...
Wisdom of Nym: Forgotten and abandoned systems in Final Fantasy XIV
The weird thing when talking about Final Fantasy XIV when compared with a whole lot of MMOs is that it doesn't have a lot...
One Shots: A face only a mother could love
One does have to consider that even the ugliest critter or most disgusting raid boss had a mother who, at one time, cuddled and...
Square-Enix finally makes good on its threat of selling NFTs with NFT-linked action figures
You may have thought that after seeing NFT prices crash along with cryptocurrency prices crashing, Square-Enix would have backed down from its inane blather...
The Stream Team: Killing and dethroning gods in Final Fantasy XIV
It's raid time once again in Final Fantasy XIV as MOP's Chris brings some of his friends along to take on the 24-player Aglaia...
Perfect Ten: The subtle differences between World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XIV combat
It's the little things that get you when you weren't paying attention, according to Jim Infantino (and Jim's big ego), and this is true...
Final Fantasy XIV brings back the Moogle Treasure Trove on July 25
Diving into dungeons in search of tomestones in Final Fantasy XIV is a pretty common activity, but irregular tomestones are a different sort of...
Wisdom of Nym: Optional and mandatory content in Final Fantasy XIV
One of the things that I've long held up as a strength of Final Fantasy XIV is that it is designed to allow you...
One Shots: Under an alien sky
There aren't many MMOs that genuinely make you feel like you're on some sort of unknown planet instead of an analogue to Earth, but...
Final Fantasy XIV changes how Crystalline Conflict rewards work for Season 2
It seems a little odd that if you really want a particular reward for a tier in Final Fantasy XIV's ranked PvP, your best...
Final Fantasy XIV makes plan for opening home world transfers while banning RMT accounts
If you want to transfer your home world in Final Fantasy XIV right now... well, you can't. This is not for no reason, either....
Final Fantasy XIV takes a look behind the scenes at the tasks of the localization team
It can be easy at times to forget that Final Fantasy XIV is a multilingual title with day-and-date releases for every major patch -...
Final Fantasy XI’s latest update adds a new farming location for exemplar points and swaps out Ambuscade targets
This month's update for Final Fantasy XI isn't really centered around new story content, so if you were hoping for more of that, it's...
Wisdom of Nym: Variant Dungeons and Savage changes in Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.2
I know I've said this many times and in a variety of contexts, but for all that there's a certain amount of expected content...
One Shots: Songs for a sinking ship
Maybe it's just me, but whenever I see a screenshot with a Dutch angle, I naturally assume that either a ship or the entire...
Wisdom of Nym: Why the Final Fantasy XIV billboard was a terrible idea
Every so often you run across something that makes you want to slam your head against a wall out of sheer, unadulterated bafflement. "What...
