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It's not quite 2018 yet, but it will be next week. That means we have a whole year of Final Fantasy XIV to enjoy,...

Gosh, I feel sort of bad for the person whose job it was to make the next Final Fantasy XIV fan festival reveal seem...

It's hard to say whether 2017 was a good year for Final Fantasy XIV. Sure, on one level it seems obvious. The game launched its...

My friends, I can see the future for Final Fantasy XIV. And by "see" I mean that I can guess at it with reasonable...

Here's how this column got written. Last week, I was talking about new potential jobs based on weapons rather than on jobs that have...

The Armoury System places a certain unique burden on Final Fantasy XIV. Any new job doesn't just need to have a distinct mechanical identity,...

So, what's the ideal raiding composition for progression in Final Fantasy XIV right now? If you started listing off Paladin, Dragoon, Ninja, Bard, Warrior......

Crafting is really important in Final Fantasy XIV. That much can't be denied; the game places so much emphasis on the options available to...

Final Fantasy XIV patch 4.1 fell into a pretty solid cadence right away, from my experience. It's not one of those patches where absolutely...

Let me make an agreement with you, dear readers: this column about Final Fantasy XIV will not talk about the housing situation in Shirogane...

Patch 4.1 arrived in Final Fantasy XIV, and the Shirogane housing rush came and went exactly how everyone familiar with the game had been...

Here we are, folks, staring down the barrel of the latest major patch. If you're feeling a minor set of trepidation simply because that...

Well, time to get my running shoes on, Final Fantasy XIV's next patch is coming out on October 10th and I'm aiming for a...

I do a lot of leveling in Final Fantasy XIV. This is, in part, because I am stupid; for several dumb reasons I have...

Have I really not talked about the dungeons of Stormblood yet? That's unexpected. Usually I would have mentioned them by now, I talk about...

The Job system is a staple of Final Fantasy as a series, which is a little odd when you consider that it's only showed...

I've been gathering, crafting, and fighting my way up in Final Fantasy XIV in preparation for 4.1. Not that I haven't been enjoying the...

I find it kind of wild to think that when I wrote my last Final Fantasy XIV anniversary column, we hadn't yet actually heard...

The first time, it was all about the jobs everyone thinks are garbage now. The second time, it was all about the jobs everyone...

Last time around, we looked at the jobs everyone thinks is deep in the loser category in Final Fantasy XIV. Some of them are...