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Wisdom of Nym: Thoughts on the first live letter for Final Fantasy XIV’s The Promise of Tomorrow patch
Sometimes I have to feel like the team is calling me out specifically when it comes to Final Fantasy XIV's live letters. After some back-and-forth...
Final Fantasy XIV’s latest merch collab offers up a $400 ear cuff from jewelry maker K.UNO
If you adore Final Fantasy XIV's Alphinaud and Alisaie Leveilleur, love jewelry, and happen to have $400 sitting around doing nothing important, then we've...
The modder behind Final Fantasy XIV’s problematic PlayerScope mod says he’s ‘permanently and irreversibly deleted’ its files
Last January we reported on the existence of an extremely troubling mod developed for Final Fantasy XIV and known as PlayerScope, which effectively let...
Gachapwned: The hollowness of gacha MMO shutdowns and the way you lose
Sunsets are a reality in our line of coverage. They're not a constant, of course, but there are a lot of MMORPGs that do...
Final Fantasy XIV previews patch 7.3, The Promise of Tomorrow, in its latest live letter
The latest Final Fantasy XIV live letter has showed off the game's next patch: patch 7.3, The Promise of Tomorrow, is slated for early August...
Massively Overthinking: Finding flow states in MMORPGs
In this week's Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about flow in MMOs - the psychology concept, not zone or progression design flow. Here's...
Perfect Ten: 10 awesome reasons to go back to older MMORPGs
Because this site is staffed by us Olds, we tend to remember the history of this ridiculous genre pretty well. This is materially helped...
Wisdom of Nym: What if Final Fantasy XIV stops adding new jobs?
One of the constants that underpins the speculation that lots of players, including me, have about Final Fantasy XIV's future expansions - beyond the...
The MOP Up: DDO’s Ravenloft expands its gothic horror to Frankenstein
MOP Reader Mick shared an interview in which Dungeons and Dragons Online's developers talked about how this summer's The Chill of Ravenloft is expanding...
The Stream Team: Seeking a rematch against the Brute Abombinator in Final Fantasy XIV
The Brute Bomber was a bit of a wall for MOP's Chris and his Eorzea Sunday crew in the last Arcadion raid, and wouldn't...
One Shots: A perilous pool party
OK people, I expect to see a lot of sun, surf, and poolside festivities over the next couple months here at One Shots! Or...
Final Fantasy XI debuts its revamped Limbus system with its June version update
Despite the similar name to certain party games, the revamped Limbus battle system in Final Fantasy XI is not a question of how low you...
Final Fantasy XIV sets the 7.3 patch producer live letter for June 20
Hey, did you hear that Final Fantasy XIV is apparently popular enough that they're planning to add more of it? Yeah. Really. See, there's another...
Wisdom of Nym: The Final Fantasy V references in Final Fantasy XIV’s Occult Crescent
There are interesting things to be said about every Final Fantasy game, and Final Fantasy V is no different. A lot of that comes from the...
Final Fantasy XI devotes its next version update to making Limbus a thing
So Final Fantasy XI has had Limbus for a while, but Limbus doesn't really refer to a specific type of content in the game. Limbus is...
The Stream Team: Continuing to climb the Arcadion cruiserweight ranks in Final Fantasy XIV
MOP's Chris and the Eorzea Sunday crew are back in the Arcadion of Final Fantasy XIV, and that means it's time for them to...
The Daily Grind: What’s the ideal gateway game for MMORPGs?
If you're a veteran MMORPG player, it's pretty likely that you came to MMORPGs through one of a handful of ways that I can...
Wisdom of Nym: First impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Occult Crescent
So after a week of Final Fantasy XIV's latest field exploration area, I have to say that I'm... not really sure if this is, in...
Final Fantasy XIV unveils the Occult Crescent with the launch of patch 7.25
If you've found yourself frustrated at the lack of relic weapons to advance, dinosaurs to fight, and phantom jobs to use in Final Fantasy...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XI and the comfort of being done
When I first played Final Fantasy XI, I wanted to be a Dragoon. I wanted this because I had never really given a whole...
