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I wonder if we're actually going to find out our destination for the next expansion in February. Remember, we still don't actually know where...

It's fair to say that a lot was riding on the first limited job for Final Fantasy XIV. It's not just that the job itself...

Ah, that's the good stuff. I'm not going to lie, I was honestly a bit concerned about this patch for Final Fantasy XIV. Not just because...

It's the day before the last patch of the Stormblood series in Final Fantasy XIV... technically. Yes, you can argue (correctly) that we'll actually...

Sometimes I wind up starting these a bit early because there's just not much to write about; other times I'm writing well in advance...

The last letter from Naoki Yoshida didn't really drop much in the way of bombshells on the Final Fantasy XIV community, especially as there had...

There's a common criticism of Final Fantasy XIV that I frequently see and agree with. The argument goes that basically, five years out from the...

The second volume of Final Fantasy XIV's Encyclopedia Eorzea was the only item I wanted to get on the floor of the fan festival a...

I don't mind telling you that I'm looking forward to Blue Mage in Final Fantasy XIV. I've said before that it's almost a new form...

The first Final Fantasy XIV fan festival this year seem to have been an exercise in subverting player expectations, albeit with subtlety. Six prior festivals...

Now that we're done poking holes in bad logic, it's time to actually get down to brass tacks of predicting the next jobs for...

This extra this week entirely comes from me doing the intellectual equivalent of pouring a mixture of lemon juice and salt directly into an...

Well, gosh. That was sure a lot of news for Final Fantasy XIV over a weekend, huh? Expected news, sure, but therein lie some of my...

The plan was to fan a spark into a flame, but now it's getting dark, so who'll remember your name? (Apologies to Lin-Manuel Miranda...

Well, here we go again. This Friday is time for Final Fantasy XIV fans to sit down and find out what the next expansion...

One of my favorite moments from Order of the Stick (which is excellent anyhow) is when one of the villains makes it clear to...

One of the things that I mentioned back when I was reviewing Heavensward in its totality was that for all the praise I give...

The biggest problem with job gauges in Final Fantasy XIV was always conceptual because there were two jobs built from the ground up to...

I saw someone asking the other day what the "point" was to the Doman Reconstruction effort in Final Fantasy XIV. What's the big reward?...

The datamining for Final Fantasy XIV is difficult, because the game is remarkably spare when it comes to pointers for the future. Most datamining...