https://massivelyop.com MMORPG news and opinions Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:18:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/12/wisdom-of-nym-what-the-hey-is-up-with-final-fantasy-xivs-xbox-pricing/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/12/wisdom-of-nym-what-the-hey-is-up-with-final-fantasy-xivs-xbox-pricing/#comments Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=479454 In another theoretical timeline, there’s a place where Final Fantasy XIV really would have stepped in it when it subtly noted that the game’s subscription on Xbox would require also subscribing to Game Pass. This is, in and of itself, not all that unusual; it’s pretty normal for games that require a subscription online. But […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/12/wisdom-of-nym-what-the-hey-is-up-with-final-fantasy-xivs-xbox-pricing/feed/ 14 https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/05/wisdom-of-nym-the-franchise-references-in-the-world-of-final-fantasy-xiv/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/05/wisdom-of-nym-the-franchise-references-in-the-world-of-final-fantasy-xiv/#comments Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=478516 There’s a fan theory circulating that Final Fantasy XIV is the nexus of the franchise multiverse. Essentially, the idea is that Hydaelyn and Zodiark are close enough to the usual series-wide meta-deities of Cosmos and Chaos, and so many of the things that other games are built around are also found within the world of […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/05/wisdom-of-nym-the-franchise-references-in-the-world-of-final-fantasy-xiv/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/29/wisdom-of-nym-the-franchise-references-for-jobs-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/29/wisdom-of-nym-the-franchise-references-for-jobs-in-final-fantasy-xiv/#comments Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=477318 There is not a single game in the history of the franchise that has not been referenced in some capacity by Final Fantasy XIV. This in and of itself is not exactly surprising; the game postdates all but two mainline entries, and producer and director Naoki Yoshida has made no secret of how much effort […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/29/wisdom-of-nym-the-franchise-references-for-jobs-in-final-fantasy-xiv/feed/ 7 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/22/wisdom-of-nym-impressions-of-final-fantasy-xivs-petite-patch-6-55/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/22/wisdom-of-nym-impressions-of-final-fantasy-xivs-petite-patch-6-55/#comments Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=476429 There’s an odd thing that keeps going back and forth in my head when I look at last week’s patch 6.55 for Final Fantasy XIV, and that’s a simple but also complicated question: Would things have been better if the patch had also contained Aloalo Island? Certainly there’s no indication that there was ever really […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/22/wisdom-of-nym-impressions-of-final-fantasy-xivs-petite-patch-6-55/feed/ 15 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/15/wisdom-of-nym-dreaming-about-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-55-during-the-day-long-downtime/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/15/wisdom-of-nym-dreaming-about-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-55-during-the-day-long-downtime/#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=475352 Somehow, the final Endwalker content patch has arrived. All right, maybe you could argue that’s just the tiniest bit premature; technically we’ve still got that crossover event coming, that’s a thing to think about, and we might have a little extra stuff here and there which might require a small patch. But for all intents […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/15/wisdom-of-nym-dreaming-about-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-55-during-the-day-long-downtime/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/08/wisdom-of-nym-the-highs-and-lows-of-final-fantasy-xivs-2024-tokyo-fan-festival/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/08/wisdom-of-nym-the-highs-and-lows-of-final-fantasy-xivs-2024-tokyo-fan-festival/#comments Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=474423 There’s a certain dramatic irony in the idea that as the Tokyo fan festival started winding up the Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail hype, the snow had just started falling in my home state. Not a big deal by any stretch of the imagination, but it still amused me just the same. As someone who is […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/08/wisdom-of-nym-the-highs-and-lows-of-final-fantasy-xivs-2024-tokyo-fan-festival/feed/ 20 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/06/final-fantasy-xiv-tokyo-fan-festival-keynote-summary-pictomancer-lady-hrothgar-and-release-ambiguity/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/06/final-fantasy-xiv-tokyo-fan-festival-keynote-summary-pictomancer-lady-hrothgar-and-release-ambiguity/#comments Sun, 07 Jan 2024 04:00:02 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=474409 If you had been paying attention and looking forward to Final Fantasy XIV’s third and final fan festival ahead of Dawntrail, you probably had three major expectations going into the keynote: You would learn about the new magical DPS job, you would see lady Hrothgar, and you would learn the expansion release date. But you […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/06/final-fantasy-xiv-tokyo-fan-festival-keynote-summary-pictomancer-lady-hrothgar-and-release-ambiguity/feed/ 52 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/02/wisdom-of-nym-what-final-fantasy-xivs-fan-festival-needs-to-accomplish/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/02/wisdom-of-nym-what-final-fantasy-xivs-fan-festival-needs-to-accomplish/#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=473751 In just a few days, the last fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV‘s upcoming Dawntrail expansion will kick off, and on paper it looks pretty simple in terms of objectives. We need to find out one more zone that we’re traveling to (but not all of them), we need a full reveal for lady Hrothgar, […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/02/wisdom-of-nym-what-final-fantasy-xivs-fan-festival-needs-to-accomplish/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/26/wisdom-of-nym-my-viper-wishlist-for-final-fantasy-xiv/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/26/wisdom-of-nym-my-viper-wishlist-for-final-fantasy-xiv/#comments Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=473185 One of the things I like about Viper in Final Fantasy XIV is that it fills a gap that the game has heretofore been kind of unable to manage. Dual-wielding in this franchise tends to both happen for Ninja and for non-Ninja physical powerhouses, and Ninja tends to be a more magical-ish job without being […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/26/wisdom-of-nym-my-viper-wishlist-for-final-fantasy-xiv/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/18/wisdom-of-nym-what-i-definitely-do-not-want-to-see-in-final-fantasy-xiv-dawntrail/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/18/wisdom-of-nym-what-i-definitely-do-not-want-to-see-in-final-fantasy-xiv-dawntrail/#comments Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=472249 We don’t have very long left to go before the next Final Fantasy XIV fan festival; there’s even a countdown clock on the official site that’s ticking down pretty steadily. And we already know some of the things that we’re going to get with this particular expansion because they’ve already been announced. If you were […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/18/wisdom-of-nym-what-i-definitely-do-not-want-to-see-in-final-fantasy-xiv-dawntrail/feed/ 18 https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/11/wisdom-of-nym-still-talking-about-final-fantasy-xiv-after-13-years/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/11/wisdom-of-nym-still-talking-about-final-fantasy-xiv-after-13-years/#comments Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=471150 This column’s title is not a typo: I have been writing about Final Fantasy XIV in a weekly column for… at least 13 years now. Back during 1.0 is when I started, and I kept that up every week, and then the reboot happened and… same but different. There was a very small break in […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/11/wisdom-of-nym-still-talking-about-final-fantasy-xiv-after-13-years/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/04/wisdom-of-nym-why-final-fantasy-xiv-fans-look-for-messages-in-tea-leaves-from-trailers/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/04/wisdom-of-nym-why-final-fantasy-xiv-fans-look-for-messages-in-tea-leaves-from-trailers/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=470062 If you are not on the sinking ship that is Twitter Dot Com at this point, you have, objectively, made a good decision. But it does mean that you have not seen the controversy and analysis surrounding a very simple yet very complex topic in the Final Fantasy XIV fandom on that social media graveyard. […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/04/wisdom-of-nym-why-final-fantasy-xiv-fans-look-for-messages-in-tea-leaves-from-trailers/feed/ 9 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/27/wisdom-of-nym-why-final-fantasy-xivs-next-limited-job-is-probably-not-pictomancer-or-green-mage/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/27/wisdom-of-nym-why-final-fantasy-xivs-next-limited-job-is-probably-not-pictomancer-or-green-mage/#comments Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=468953 Despite the fact that it is not coming out until significantly later, I’m willing to bet that a large part of the work for Final Fantasy XIV’s next limited job has already been done. The play pattern has been decided on, the design has been locked, and what remains is filling in the abilities and […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/27/wisdom-of-nym-why-final-fantasy-xivs-next-limited-job-is-probably-not-pictomancer-or-green-mage/feed/ 12 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/20/wisdom-of-nym-when-will-final-fantasy-xiv-head-back-to-the-void/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/20/wisdom-of-nym-when-will-final-fantasy-xiv-head-back-to-the-void/#comments Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=468168 Some fans were not super happy with the amount of time that Final Fantasy XIV spent on our little trip through the Void with Zero and such, but I feel like that says a lot more about the people in question than the story itself – and I prefer it immensely compared to the Warriors […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/20/wisdom-of-nym-when-will-final-fantasy-xiv-head-back-to-the-void/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/13/wisdom-of-nym-the-best-stuff-from-final-fantasy-xiv-1-0-thats-already-in-the-game/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/13/wisdom-of-nym-the-best-stuff-from-final-fantasy-xiv-1-0-thats-already-in-the-game/#comments Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=467089 Whatever we were getting back from Final Fantasy XIV version 1.0 is already in the game. Period end. And let’s be honest, there was a lot that needed to go. As much as the huge seamless zones looked impressive from the outside, for example, in practice the loading zones were just hidden, which meant that […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/13/wisdom-of-nym-the-best-stuff-from-final-fantasy-xiv-1-0-thats-already-in-the-game/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/06/wisdom-of-nym-illuminating-final-fantasy-xivs-6-51-patch/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/06/wisdom-of-nym-illuminating-final-fantasy-xivs-6-51-patch/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=465881 As a general rule, Final Fantasy XIV does not offer much for players to do during the first minor patch after a major one. They tend to come out pretty soon after the main patch (which is definitely the case here, as patch 6.5 aka Growing Light released on October 2nd) and are mostly about […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/06/wisdom-of-nym-illuminating-final-fantasy-xivs-6-51-patch/feed/ 11 https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/30/wisdom-of-nym-whats-left-on-the-table-for-final-fantasy-xivs-tokyo-fan-festival/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/30/wisdom-of-nym-whats-left-on-the-table-for-final-fantasy-xivs-tokyo-fan-festival/#comments Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=464338 So what’s still on the table for Final Fantasy XIV’s third fan festival this cycle? (It’s not really this year; the third one is in January next year.) A couple of things are obvious. We’re going to almost certainly learn about one more zone, we’re going to learn our second new job, and we’ll learn […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/30/wisdom-of-nym-whats-left-on-the-table-for-final-fantasy-xivs-tokyo-fan-festival/feed/ 24 https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/23/wisdom-of-nym-reactions-to-final-fantasy-xivs-london-fan-festival/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/23/wisdom-of-nym-reactions-to-final-fantasy-xivs-london-fan-festival/#comments Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=463430 So we’ve gotten 67% of the way through the fan festival cycle for Final Fantasy XIV, and that means taking a certain degree of stock in how accurate predictions have been so far. For my money? Reasonably accurate! (Don’t worry, I will explain my hits and misses as always.) We learned some more about Tural, […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/23/wisdom-of-nym-reactions-to-final-fantasy-xivs-london-fan-festival/feed/ 23 https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/21/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-london-reveals-viper-zones-and-echoes-of-vanadiel/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/21/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-london-reveals-viper-zones-and-echoes-of-vanadiel/#comments Sat, 21 Oct 2023 18:40:01 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=463258 It’s time for more reveals for the Final Fantasy XIV fans in the audience as the London Fan Festival has begun, and that means learning more about the content due to arrive in the game when Dawntrail launches next summer. And as has been tradition for most of the expansions, the second festival brought with […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/21/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-london-reveals-viper-zones-and-echoes-of-vanadiel/feed/ 14 https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/16/wisdom-of-nym-examining-final-fantasy-xivs-growing-light-story-beats/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/16/wisdom-of-nym-examining-final-fantasy-xivs-growing-light-story-beats/#comments Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=462306 Once again within this column, you will find spoilers for everything that occurred within Final Fantasy XIV’s Growing Light patch, and I will not be spoiler-marking any of it because I am marking all of it right here. If you still have not finished the quests, don’t come crying to me when you are spoiled! […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/16/wisdom-of-nym-examining-final-fantasy-xivs-growing-light-story-beats/feed/ 15 https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/09/wisdom-of-nym-examining-final-fantasy-xivs-growing-light-group-content-spoiler-free/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/09/wisdom-of-nym-examining-final-fantasy-xivs-growing-light-group-content-spoiler-free/#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=461292 So, here we are at the end of the Endwalker patch cycle for Final Fantasy XIV. That isn’t entirely true, of course; we all know that we’re getting a few more updates moving forward, what with the second half of the patch and all that. But we also already know that that is going to […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/09/wisdom-of-nym-examining-final-fantasy-xivs-growing-light-group-content-spoiler-free/feed/ 12 https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/02/wisdom-of-nym-the-packed-october-for-final-fantasy-xiv-ahead-of-patch-6-5/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/02/wisdom-of-nym-the-packed-october-for-final-fantasy-xiv-ahead-of-patch-6-5/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=460187 Tomorrow, patch 6.5 will be live for Final Fantasy XIV. That’s the last patch of the Endwalker cycle, which means the first part of the MSQ wrapping things up with the Void plot and a whole lot of other systems. But let’s be honest, this entire month is going to be pretty darn overloaded for […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/02/wisdom-of-nym-the-packed-october-for-final-fantasy-xiv-ahead-of-patch-6-5/feed/ 10 https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/25/wisdom-of-nym-open-questions-spawned-by-the-tokyo-game-shows-final-fantasy-xiv-live-letter/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/25/wisdom-of-nym-open-questions-spawned-by-the-tokyo-game-shows-final-fantasy-xiv-live-letter/#comments Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=459240 Thanks to the Tokyo Game Show, we’ve had our last Final Fantasy XIV live letter live letter before the patch, and aside from the expected date of October 3rd, we did wind up getting a little more information along the way. Sadly, we didn’t get anything substantial on at least a couple of points (I […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/25/wisdom-of-nym-open-questions-spawned-by-the-tokyo-game-shows-final-fantasy-xiv-live-letter/feed/ 30 https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/18/wisdom-of-nym-examining-the-mamool-ja-of-final-fantasy-xiv/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/18/wisdom-of-nym-examining-the-mamool-ja-of-final-fantasy-xiv/#comments Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=458123 The Mamool Ja have been a feature of Final Fantasy XIV since the game’s relaunch in 2013, so in a way it’s kind of fitting that Dawntrail is bringing us to their homeland at long last. But it becomes kind of weird when you realize that unlike the vast majority of the non-Spoken races in […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/18/wisdom-of-nym-examining-the-mamool-ja-of-final-fantasy-xiv/feed/ 4 https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/11/wisdom-of-nym-what-was-my-journey-made-for-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/11/wisdom-of-nym-what-was-my-journey-made-for-in-final-fantasy-xiv/#comments Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=457167 Late in the story of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, the Warrior of Light is talking with Venat. We’d heard about Venat before, and we already had a pretty clear picture of the sort of person she was before the Final Days arrived as well as what she did afterwards. But here we seem to be […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/11/wisdom-of-nym-what-was-my-journey-made-for-in-final-fantasy-xiv/feed/ 8 https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/04/wisdom-of-nym-what-seems-to-be-cut-content-from-final-fantasy-xiv/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/04/wisdom-of-nym-what-seems-to-be-cut-content-from-final-fantasy-xiv/#comments Mon, 04 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=456386 The thing about Final Fantasy XIV datamining is that, at least to me, it’s kind of boring. Unlike some other games that used to have a whole lot of almost-finished stuff that wasn’t quite available and still now relies on the community to find things not yet announced, FFXIV historically makes it rare for branches […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/04/wisdom-of-nym-what-seems-to-be-cut-content-from-final-fantasy-xiv/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/28/wisdom-of-nym-looking-back-at-a-decade-of-final-fantasy-xiv/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/28/wisdom-of-nym-looking-back-at-a-decade-of-final-fantasy-xiv/#comments Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=455349 When Final Fantasy XIV was first announced, I was still fairly new in my tenure at Massively, but our editor-in-chief at the time was on a big push to match writers with weekly columns for games. He knew that I had played the prior game, and this was going to be something of appreciable size […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/28/wisdom-of-nym-looking-back-at-a-decade-of-final-fantasy-xiv/feed/ 7 https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/21/wisdom-of-nym-final-fantasy-xivs-content-pipelines-and-what-were-getting-for-whom/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/21/wisdom-of-nym-final-fantasy-xivs-content-pipelines-and-what-were-getting-for-whom/#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=454087 I don’t really pay attention to the gristle mill of reaction videos we get for Final Fantasy XIV because, well, why would I? It’s at best well-meaning content put out by people working on tight deadlines, but a lot of it is also people trying to recreate a scene from another game fandom that has […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/21/wisdom-of-nym-final-fantasy-xivs-content-pipelines-and-what-were-getting-for-whom/feed/ 25 https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/14/wisdom-of-nym-the-unspoken-but-expected-features-of-final-fantasy-xiv-dawntrail/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/14/wisdom-of-nym-the-unspoken-but-expected-features-of-final-fantasy-xiv-dawntrail/#comments Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=453085 There are a number of features that we know are coming with Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail. Sure, we can all have some fun speculating about what the exact combination of jobs is going to be, but we know that it’s going to be two jobs and we know what roles they are. Just because there […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/14/wisdom-of-nym-the-unspoken-but-expected-features-of-final-fantasy-xiv-dawntrail/feed/ 18 https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/07/wisdom-of-nym-final-fantasy-xiv-will-have-to-dig-deeply-for-future-jobs/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/07/wisdom-of-nym-final-fantasy-xiv-will-have-to-dig-deeply-for-future-jobs/#comments Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=452134 Anyone who has read my columns for a long while knows that I put my predictions front and center and both admit when I’m wrong and don’t give myself credit for every time that I’m right. This was certainly the case when Reaper was announced for Final Fantasy XIV ahead of Endwalker’s launch. I guessed […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/07/wisdom-of-nym-final-fantasy-xiv-will-have-to-dig-deeply-for-future-jobs/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/31/wisdom-of-nym-analyzing-the-final-fantasy-xiv-dawntrail-fan-festival/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/31/wisdom-of-nym-analyzing-the-final-fantasy-xiv-dawntrail-fan-festival/#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=451116 So that was a thing! You know, I’d honestly been kind of chill moving into the Final Fantasy XIV fan festival, probably because I had really been so jazzed about patch 6.45 as a whole, but I definitely walked away with a bunch of stuff to analyze. And even though we only got the sparest […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/31/wisdom-of-nym-analyzing-the-final-fantasy-xiv-dawntrail-fan-festival/feed/ 31 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/30/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-las-vegas-what-new-jobs-are-hinted-at-by-yoshidas-shirt/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/30/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-las-vegas-what-new-jobs-are-hinted-at-by-yoshidas-shirt/#comments Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=451025 At this point, Final Fantasy XIV fans have spent a decade now reading a whole lot into the shirts worn by producer and director Naoki Yoshida. Not actually because we need to, of course; if we wait until October, we’re going to know what one of the two new jobs being added with Dawntrail will […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/30/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-las-vegas-what-new-jobs-are-hinted-at-by-yoshidas-shirt/feed/ 22 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/29/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-las-vegas-all-the-big-news-from-the-patch-6-5-live-letter/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/29/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-las-vegas-all-the-big-news-from-the-patch-6-5-live-letter/#comments Sat, 29 Jul 2023 21:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=451014 Let’s not mince words: Final Fantasy XIV has every fan hyped up for the next expansion coming in about a year. But there’s more coming for the game before then, and the second big reveal from the Las Vegas Fan Festival was with the Letter from the Producer Live. Surprise, FFXIV has another patch in […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/29/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-las-vegas-all-the-big-news-from-the-patch-6-5-live-letter/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/28/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-las-vegas-keynote-takeaways-dawntrail-and-xbox-xs/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/28/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-las-vegas-keynote-takeaways-dawntrail-and-xbox-xs/#comments Fri, 28 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=450843 The Final Fantasy XIV fan festival is upon us yet again, and as we all expected, we now know the name of the next expansion: Dawntrail, with a projected release of summer 2024. This is not a surprise given the information we already had, but there was also quite a bit revealed about the next […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/28/final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival-las-vegas-keynote-takeaways-dawntrail-and-xbox-xs/feed/ 38 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/24/wisdom-of-nym-reviewing-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-45-from-blue-mage-to-rokkon/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/24/wisdom-of-nym-reviewing-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-45-from-blue-mage-to-rokkon/#comments Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=450076 Look, I know what the title says, but this review is not actually going to be any shorter than normal. If you were worried about that, don’t be. (You probably were not.) But patch 6.45 for Final Fantasy XIV is here, and it brings with it three things, basically: more mainhand enhancement content, more Blue […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/24/wisdom-of-nym-reviewing-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-45-from-blue-mage-to-rokkon/feed/ 12 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/17/wisdom-of-nym-so-how-will-final-fantasy-xiv-cross-with-final-fantasy-xvi/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/17/wisdom-of-nym-so-how-will-final-fantasy-xiv-cross-with-final-fantasy-xvi/#comments Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=449079 At this point, Final Fantasy XIV has directly crossed over with three separate titles in the Final Fantasy franchise: Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIII, and Final Fantasy XV. This is, of course, a bit of a fine line to cut. After all, the whole Return to Ivalice plotline definitely had crossover-ish elements, but in […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/17/wisdom-of-nym-so-how-will-final-fantasy-xiv-cross-with-final-fantasy-xvi/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/10/wisdom-of-nym-the-forgotten-classes-of-final-fantasy-xiv/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/10/wisdom-of-nym-the-forgotten-classes-of-final-fantasy-xiv/#comments Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=448071 Machinist ruined classes forever in Final Fantasy XIV. But don’t entirely blame that job; some of it was just a matter of figuring how how jobs worked at all. When we learn about our next expansion destination, the odds are nigh-on absolute that we will hear about two new jobs. Probably we will not hear […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/10/wisdom-of-nym-the-forgotten-classes-of-final-fantasy-xiv/feed/ 26 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/03/wisdom-of-nym-pandaemoniums-flop-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/03/wisdom-of-nym-pandaemoniums-flop-in-final-fantasy-xiv/#comments Mon, 03 Jul 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=447285 Raid series in Final Fantasy XIV have had a complicated history from a story standpoint. The Binding Coil of Bahamut was an interesting attempt, but it ultimately tries to serve too many masters and pay off too many story threads at once without ever coalescing well, never you mind that it was less accessible and […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/03/wisdom-of-nym-pandaemoniums-flop-in-final-fantasy-xiv/feed/ 17 https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/30/mmo-burnout-final-fantasy-xvi-is-a-high-water-mark-for-the-franchise-in-every-way-that-matters/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/30/mmo-burnout-final-fantasy-xvi-is-a-high-water-mark-for-the-franchise-in-every-way-that-matters/#comments Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=446961 Over the coming days, weeks, months, and likely years, we are going to watch a whole lot of fighting happen over Final Fantasy XVI. Not in terms of its critical reception; that’s already been established. No, it’s going to be over whether or not the game is sufficiently JRPG to be labeled as part of […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/30/mmo-burnout-final-fantasy-xvi-is-a-high-water-mark-for-the-franchise-in-every-way-that-matters/feed/ 25 https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/26/wisdom-of-nym-the-clues-to-watch-for-at-final-fantasy-xivs-fan-festival/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/26/wisdom-of-nym-the-clues-to-watch-for-at-final-fantasy-xivs-fan-festival/#comments Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=446288 One of the things I find myself coming back to a lot is how information is only as useful as your ability to digest it. This is obvious on a basic level when you think about it for a moment; you could have a page of instructions that perfectly outline everything you need to do […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/26/wisdom-of-nym-the-clues-to-watch-for-at-final-fantasy-xivs-fan-festival/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/19/wisdom-of-nym-turning-a-critical-eye-toward-final-fantasy-xivs-bozja/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/19/wisdom-of-nym-turning-a-critical-eye-toward-final-fantasy-xivs-bozja/#comments Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=445329 There’s honestly not much for me to say about Eureka in Final Fantasy XIV. I can respect what it was trying to do, and there are many parts of it that were, in fact, interesting. But as a whole it was just a failure, and while subsequent areas attempted to course-correct initial problems the fact […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/19/wisdom-of-nym-turning-a-critical-eye-toward-final-fantasy-xivs-bozja/feed/ 11 https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/12/wisdom-of-nym-has-final-fantasy-xiv-had-less-stuff-to-do-each-patch-in-endwalker/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/12/wisdom-of-nym-has-final-fantasy-xiv-had-less-stuff-to-do-each-patch-in-endwalker/#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=444189 Just to make a point, I am going to start off this column by answering the question factually, and the answer is “no.” Final Fantasy XIV has had the same number of trials, raids, and dungeons as in prior expansions. We have not gotten a new open-world area to grind FATEs in as we did […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/12/wisdom-of-nym-has-final-fantasy-xiv-had-less-stuff-to-do-each-patch-in-endwalker/feed/ 36 https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/05/wisdom-of-nym-breaking-down-final-fantasy-xivs-the-dark-throne-storylines/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/05/wisdom-of-nym-breaking-down-final-fantasy-xivs-the-dark-throne-storylines/#comments Mon, 05 Jun 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=443177 So there are, in fact, a number of stories going on in Final Fantasy XIV‘s The Dark Throne patch, but there are only two that actually matter. Oh, sure, if you’re hard in on the game, you are probably going to be very excited by the NPCs you get to hang out with when you […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/05/wisdom-of-nym-breaking-down-final-fantasy-xivs-the-dark-throne-storylines/feed/ 11 https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/30/wisdom-of-nym-spoiler-free-thoughts-on-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-4s-content/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/30/wisdom-of-nym-spoiler-free-thoughts-on-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-4s-content/#comments Tue, 30 May 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=442286 Here we are with another Final Fantasy XIV patch to experience, and as is tradition, we’re going to spend this week talking about the content alone while giving people a little more time to get through the story. It’s interesting in this case because as a whole I feel like the story beats are much […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/30/wisdom-of-nym-spoiler-free-thoughts-on-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-4s-content/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/22/wisdom-of-nym-top-takeaways-from-final-fantasy-xivs-the-dark-throne-patch-notes/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/22/wisdom-of-nym-top-takeaways-from-final-fantasy-xivs-the-dark-throne-patch-notes/#comments Mon, 22 May 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=441069 I have to say that whole “preliminary” patch notes thing that Final Fantasy XIV has been pulling for years now has begun to wear a little bit. This isn’t to say I don’t understand the rationale behind it. The designers don’t want people knowing what to stockpile in terms of materials right before crafting recipes […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/22/wisdom-of-nym-top-takeaways-from-final-fantasy-xivs-the-dark-throne-patch-notes/feed/ 13 https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/15/wisdom-of-nym-looking-ahead-to-final-fantasy-xivs-the-dark-throne/ Mon, 15 May 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=439902 It’s almost here! Yes, I know, we have a little longer until Final Fantasy XIV’s next patch properly arrives for the game since it’s dated for May 23rd, but we’re definitely into the back half of waiting for the patch, and I for one could not be happier about this turn of events. While I’m […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/08/wisdom-of-nym-what-happens-at-the-end-of-final-fantasy-xivs-the-dark-throne/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/08/wisdom-of-nym-what-happens-at-the-end-of-final-fantasy-xivs-the-dark-throne/#comments Mon, 08 May 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=438957 So here’s the situation as we know it right now: Either on May 23rd or May 30th, patch 6.4, The Dark Throne will release for Final Fantasy XIV. As part of that story update, players will be facing off against Golbez in the culmination of a master plan that has been brewing for… well, it’s […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/08/wisdom-of-nym-what-happens-at-the-end-of-final-fantasy-xivs-the-dark-throne/feed/ 12 https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/01/wisdom-of-nym-what-to-expect-from-2023s-final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/01/wisdom-of-nym-what-to-expect-from-2023s-final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival/#comments Mon, 01 May 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=437850 We’ve still got a couple months until Final Fantasy XIV‘s next fan festival, but it’s already in an interesting place. In one sense, this year’s festival has the easiest victory lap conceivable, and in another it has a lot of work to do to help deliver some positive feelings. And there’s a lot of overlap […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/01/wisdom-of-nym-what-to-expect-from-2023s-final-fantasy-xiv-fan-festival/feed/ 7 https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/24/wisdom-of-nym-we-dont-need-another-final-fantasy-xiv-we-already-have-one/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/24/wisdom-of-nym-we-dont-need-another-final-fantasy-xiv-we-already-have-one/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=436862 First of all, this one’s for Bruno. He usually doesn’t read these, but maybe he’ll like this one. So we all know at this point that Final Fantasy XIV is an impressive financial success and a critical darling, and has been for several years. This is very good news for anyone who was hoping for […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/24/wisdom-of-nym-we-dont-need-another-final-fantasy-xiv-we-already-have-one/feed/ 26 https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/17/wisdom-of-nym-everything-is-broken-a-tale-of-final-fantasy-xiv-post-calamity/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/17/wisdom-of-nym-everything-is-broken-a-tale-of-final-fantasy-xiv-post-calamity/#comments Mon, 17 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=435809 “Marise? Are ye up there, girl?” The answer was yes, but she didn’t much feel like answering. Actually, she didn’t feel much liked doing anything but sitting there scrunched up against the wall and waiting for tears to come as they resolutely refused to do so. So she sat there, and she scowled, and she […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/17/wisdom-of-nym-everything-is-broken-a-tale-of-final-fantasy-xiv-post-calamity/feed/ 6