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MMO Controllers and You – My Summary of Two Weeks Using The Azeron Classic Gamepad After 11 Years of the Logitech G13

MMO controllers seemed like they could be the next big growth market in PC peripherals. Those hopes were high in 2009 when Logitech released the first G13s… Read more “MMO Controllers and You – My Summary of Two Weeks Using The Azeron Classic Gamepad After 11 Years of the Logitech G13”

A recent post at MassivelyOP kind of clicked a thing I’ve been thinking a lot about with FFXIV lately. I have talked about how a lot of… Read more “Bozja Boredom – The Creep of Borrowed Power In Final Fantasy XIV”

Yesterday was the launch day for Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.35. The patch had a few major bullet point features: -Bozjan Southern Front, an instanced battlefield zone… Read more “Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.35 Launch Day Impressions – Bozja Fun and Confusion, Housing Woes for Some, Waiting for 5.4”

(There will be some mild gameplay spoilers for 5.3 in this post, and a screenshot of the trial) Something interesting seems to be brewing in the design… Read more “The Changing Shape of Healing in Final Fantasy XIV – Based on the Newest EX Trial”

Alright, so this post will have spoilers for the MSQ story, elements of the alliance raid story, and almost all things to do with 5.3 story. If… Read more “Reflections In Crystal – A Recap of Why I Love Final Fantasy XIV With a Ton of Spoilers In the Back Half”

Before I resume the pile-on of Shadowlands beta info, I wanted to get out two additional posts about starting and level-up experiences in MMOs. One comment in… Read more “On Starting Experiences – Addendum 3 of 2 -Why Is There an “Endgame” Anyways?”

Another week and boy are there things to be excited about! While I’ve called out one specific topic in the title, there was some good news this… Read more “Weekly Hype Train Week of 7/22/2020! The One With All The Shadowlands Beta Stuff”

My post yesterday sparked a lot of great discussion about Blizzard and balancing that I think are worth looking at in detail and via comparison to other… Read more “On Balance and Choice – The Difficulty of WoW’s Legacy Systems”

In what is sure to be an interesting week for us WoW players, there is a decent amount to talk about, so let’s dive in. Shadowlands Beta:… Read more “Weekly Hype Train Week of 7/15/2020!”

(Editor’s Note: Originally, I would just have written a hype train that describes this stuff, and then written a post about soloing, but given that this is… Read more “Taking the MM Out of MMORPG – Solo Content and Why I Enjoy It”