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Final Fantasy XIV’s Plugin Problem – Problems, Solutions, and the PlayerScope Poison Pill

(Editor’s Note: this draft started off as solely about the drama in the Ultimate race to world first for Futures Rewritten. However, in the last week, a… Read more “Final Fantasy XIV’s Plugin Problem – Problems, Solutions, and the PlayerScope Poison Pill”

(Up top warning – this one breached 10,000 words. It’s 20% of a Nanowrimo novel! Get comfy if you wanna read this one.) On Monday, July 1st,… Read more “A Comprehensive, Spoiler-Laden Discussion Of My Experience With Dawntrail”

With this week’s unveiling of the Dawntrail Media Tour information, including tooltips, a preview of the first dungeon, and getting to see actual gameplay in the new… Read more “Speculating About Dawntrail Part 1 of 2 – Job Actions, Abilities, and What The Changes (Might) Mean”

Tonight marks a big benchmark on the road to the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Dawntrail. The last event of the 2023-2024 Fan Fest cycle is in… Read more “Final Fantasy XIV’s Tokyo Fan Fest and The Trail to Dawn”

I got back from Fanfest 2023 Las Vegas yesterday, and while I have a lot to say about that experience, it can wait for now. With a… Read more “FFXIV Dawntrail Has Been Announced, My Impressions”

This Friday, we’ll see the first announcements of detailed features and content for Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.2, the second major content patch of Endwalker. This patch… Read more “My Predictions for the First Patch 6.2 Live Letter for Final Fantasy XIV”

I debated writing a post about this issue at all, because observing it over the course of the week has been mind-numbing to a point, and it… Read more “My Favorite Memes About the Final Fantasy XIV Third-Party Tools Debate (And I Guess Some Editorial)”

The title says it all, really, but let’s go deeper. A common statement made about FFXIV is that PvP in the game might as well not even… Read more “I Think I Like Final Fantasy XIV PvP?”

Apologies for the vague title, but I don’t want my autolinks on social media to this post to be inundated with bots and hexagon profile pics who… Read more “I Guess It’s Time To Have An Opinion on Digital Asset Ownership”

Last night, ironically while I was playing FFXIV, a day-early surprise – the preliminary patch notes for 6.0, the patch that delivers Endwalker content to FFXIV, were… Read more “The Preliminary Patch Notes for Endwalker – A Brief Analysis”