Endwalker’s early access window is coming up this week, and with maintenance scheduled and ready, everyone’s hype levels are rising to uncontrollable levels – mine included. One… Read more “Why Predictability Is Good And Makes Surprises – 2.5 Theories About Endwalker Prior To Launch”
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The Final Countdown – Tips for An FFXIV Expansion Launch and What You Can and Should Do Now
Endwalker’s maintenance schedule has been announced and confirmed, which means short of a catastrophe in real life on part with the Final Days, Endwalker is release-ready and… Read more “The Final Countdown – Tips for An FFXIV Expansion Launch and What You Can and Should Do Now”
“Existing In A Shared Space” And Other Thoughts After Shadowlands Hits One Year Old
Shadowlands, the 8th expansion for World of Warcraft, launched 1 year and 1 day ago. It has been a contentious expansion, full of moments where players of… Read more ““Existing In A Shared Space” And Other Thoughts After Shadowlands Hits One Year Old”
Some Endwalker Thoughts On What Would Have Originally Been 6.0 Maintenance Day
(A Quick Heads-Up: there are some story spoilers that include content through the end of Shadowbringers in this post.) In a better world, today would be the… Read more “Some Endwalker Thoughts On What Would Have Originally Been 6.0 Maintenance Day”
All The Good News From The Endwalker Live Letter 67 (And The One Bad Thing), With Bonus Speculation
Last night was a Producer Live Letter on FFXIV, and going in, most of us thought that it was going to be all sunshine and flowers on… Read more “All The Good News From The Endwalker Live Letter 67 (And The One Bad Thing), With Bonus Speculation”
Performance Metrics and Fandoms – Why Do We Obsess Over Sub Numbers and Ratings?
This post is going to be about broad fandom, but I need to start with one of the animating, wrestling-related reasons I’m writing this today, so stick… Read more “Performance Metrics and Fandoms – Why Do We Obsess Over Sub Numbers and Ratings?”
Some Analysis of Endwalker Healing Gameplay Based on the Leaked Tooltips
My last post was also sort of on this topic, but I tried to stay a bit away from healing design and instead wanted to talk about… Read more “Some Analysis of Endwalker Healing Gameplay Based on the Leaked Tooltips”
The FFXIV Endwalker Media Tour Tooltip Leaks and A Lot of Thoughts on Sage Gameplay
Yesterday, the news was a murmur in FFXIV corners of the internet – someone on Media Tour had leaked screenshots of tooltips, with full assortments of tank… Read more “The FFXIV Endwalker Media Tour Tooltip Leaks and A Lot of Thoughts on Sage Gameplay”
What Am I Playing Lately? A Quick Check-In
Right now is perhaps slow for me, but not for the MMO space at-large, as New World’s launch last week definitely proved. I might have words on… Read more “What Am I Playing Lately? A Quick Check-In”
50 Days To Go – Revisiting My Endwalker Goals
At the start of August, I wrote about the goals I had for the remaining time in Shadowbringers, before Endwalker came out in Early Access ready to… Read more “50 Days To Go – Revisiting My Endwalker Goals”
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