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Final Fantasy XI invites players to return home and offers discounts for its anniversary
It's been 23 years since Final Fantasy XI launched (slightly less time in North America, but who's counting?) - and if you took some...
Massively Overthinking: Are you a random reward disliker in MMOs?
This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us via a phrase MOP's Eliot dropped back in April that leaped out at me. He was discussing...
Perfect Ten: MMOs (and MMO moments) that live in infamy
To a certain degree, MMOs have always existed in a state of infamy. People assume that the game requires hours of sitting and scowling...
Wisdom of Nym: The odd hole in Final Fantasy XIV’s 2025 plans
Peter Gabriel's song "I Grieve" has a bit of an odd history; the song was included on his 2002 album Up, but its first...
One Shots: The MMO grand tour
Have you ever taken a step back from your endless endgame chasing to go back through the entirety of your MMO from start to...
Final Fantasy XI kicks off several campaigns for its 23-year anniversary
As of this year, Final Fantasy XI is 23 years old. That means if you had a child who was born when the game...
MMO Hype Train: What could make EverQuest 3 a future triumph
When I think about the gut punches that came as part of crushing MMO news over the years, the announcement that Daybreak was scrapping...
Massively Overthinking: The unforgivable sins of MMORPG quest design
Last week, I was continuing my first trip through Lord of the Rings Online's Gundabad (yes, I am behind), and I bumped into some...
Vague Patch Notes: Maybe chill out about the metagame in MMORPGs
Today, we're going to do a thing. But it's going to be a kind of unusual thing. I want you to find a piece...
Perfect Ten: What I appreciated about Final Fantasy XIV (even though it’s not the MMO for me)
It's hard to be in the MMO space and not feel at least a little bit of the gravitational pull of Final Fantasy XIV....
Wisdom of Nym: First impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Cosmic Exploration
I find myself of two minds as I play through the first part of Final Fantasy XIV's Cosmic Exploration. The first mind - the...
Storyboard: Dealing with the things your MMOs characters can’t do (but still can)
In the middle of Final Fantasy XIV's post-Stormblood patches, there's a scene where the characters need to purchase a specific katana. An exact price...
Ankama is heavily retooling Waven and resetting player progress ahead of its 1.0 release later this year
You might think that it's generally not a good thing to describe your tactical card-driven on the official site as having monetization problems, overly...
One Shots: Bananarama!
As we gather together to appreciate this gallery of video game art captured by our auteurs, we can be assured that there is absolutely...
Massively Overthinking: The eternal granular squabbles in our pet MMORPGs
So if you don't play a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server - and chances are that you don't - you probably have no idea...
Vague Patch Notes: Not every MMO mechanic you dislike is a bad one
There is a category of responses to any column about mechanics, and it came up with the recent couple of columns about level scaling,...
Some Final Fantasy XIV servers have already chewed through much of the new Cosmic Exploration content
Sure, players of Final Fantasy XIV can gather and craft anywhere, but the latest patch to the MMORPG now lets them gather and craft...
Wisdom of Nym: Things I want out of Final Fantasy XIV’s upcoming Occult Crescent
It is a fact almost universally acknowledged that human beings are never happy with where they are currently located; instead, we almost constantly wish...
Final Fantasy XIV kicks off a furniture design contest to make some beautiful decor
After a hard day of adventuring in Final Fantasy XIVÂ (or a hard day of saying "pspspsps" at Hrothgar and Miqo'te, we don't judge), do...
The MOP Up: Villagers and Heroes celebrates 11 years on Steam
A very happy birthday to Villagers and Heroes, an underrated MMORPG that's pushing 14 years old - 11 of them on Steam: "Throwback to...
