Final Fantasy XIV producer/director Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida has talked a few times over the years about his desire to introduce some sort of companion app for the game. That’s finally coming to fruition, with the Final Fantasy XIV Online Companion App outlined in the latest development update. The free app …
Earlier today, Square Enix announced a new Final Fantasy XIV companion app: Final Fantasy XIV Online GO, where the “GO” stands for “Gathering Outdoors”. Following the hype of Pokemon GO and other GPS-enabled games that followed, FFXIV GO would let players gather crafting materials from nodes in the real world. Reading the press release that came into …
Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood‘s regular content updates are now well underway, with patch 4.2: Rise of a New Sun marking the second major update since Stormblood‘s launch last year. If you’ve been playing the game at all since its 2014 relaunch, you surely know what to expect from each new …
It’s been only a couple of months since Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood launched, but for some of us it feels like a lot longer. As good as this expansion is, some of the most anticipated content wasn’t due until the first major patch. Patch 4.1 hasn’t taken any longer than …
To this day, the best take on the increasingly popular “people trapped in an MMO game” premise is Star Ocean 3. The big twist in that game (spoiler alert for a 14-year-old game, yadda yadda) was that the main characters are actually NPCs in an MMO game of sorts, and …
With Final Fantasy XIV’s latest patch comes a new level 70 dungeon, The Drowned City of Skalla. Found beneath the waters of Loch Seld (and unlocked through main story quest progression), Skalla takes place in the ruins of an old city that was swallowed by a flood, as players search …
On Saturday (or Sunday, depending on your timezone), Square Enix launched a new in-game event in Final Fantasy XIV. “The Rising: A Missing Minstrel and a Perilous Pest Problem” – or simply “The Rising 2017” – is a celebration of the fourth anniversary of the launch of Final Fantasy XIV: …
A couple of months ago, with Stormblood fast approaching, I decided to dive back into Final Fantasy XIV in an effort to catch up and see what I’d been missing out on. Now, I hadn’t played since before version 3.1 – the first major update after Heavensward’s launch – so …
