Category Archives: Final Fantasy XIV

2015 midyear check-in: Still not a single great F2P MMO

Posted on June 4, 2015 by SynCaine

Wildstar announcing it is moving to the minor leagues of the MMO world (F2P) is… something? Personally I have zero investment/interest in Wildstar, as I never saw the point of creating a ‘hardcore’ raiding MMO and then picking a hyper-cartoon … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Final Fantasy XIV, RMT, World of Warcraft | 27 Comments

FFXIV: Might need to move up that “bigger than WoW now” timetable

Posted on May 11, 2015 by SynCaine

FFXIV isn’t out in South Korea? That was news to me, and has a huge impact on when FFXIV will eventually overtake WoW as the biggest real MMO out. Serious one-two punch coming up, with the expansion and now hitting … Continue reading →

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FFXIV: Should I be worried about the expansion?

Posted on April 29, 2015 by SynCaine

Quick concern here; currently I’m lvl 35 in FFXIV, and odds aren’t great that I’ll have time to hit 50 and do most of the end-game stuff in the game before the expansion hits. From those who are 50 and … Continue reading →

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GTA V: A monster of quality content

Posted on April 21, 2015 by SynCaine

Quick plugs first: The CoC clan has one spot currently open. Anyone with a non-rushed TH7+ that will be active please apply to “Supreme Cream!” and mention the blog. Also the Boom Beach group “Hardcore Casual” has spots open as … Continue reading →

Posted in Boom Beach, Clash of Clans, EVE Online, Final Fantasy XIV, Random, World of Warcraft | 4 Comments

FFXIV: Playing different roles on one character is brilliant

Posted on March 18, 2015 by SynCaine

Quick note to start with: Playing the relaunch of The Elder Scrolls Online just reinforced how much better FFXIV is at being a thempark MMO. I might still try to get back into ESO at some point, but after spending … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy XIV, The Elder Scrolls Online, World of Warcraft | 22 Comments

FFXIV: Sub model isn’t just about higher quality, its also about safety

Posted on March 10, 2015 by SynCaine

Full interview can be found here. So, just because ESO moved into a free-to-play subscription model, it doesn’t necessarily mean for us to move into that direction as well. Also, for use we have taken player surveys and took a … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy XIV, MMO design, RMT | 11 Comments

FFXIV: Gold Saucer is golden side content

Posted on March 9, 2015 by SynCaine

I was finally able to check out the Gold Saucer in FFXIV, and its a rather great piece of content IMO. The area looks great, and has plenty of nostalgia bits from previous FF games (FFVII sticks out in my … Continue reading →

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FFXIV: 4 million ‘registered accounts’

Posted on February 27, 2015 by SynCaine

Square Enix, in announcing 4m players, continues to troll all of us with their use of the term ‘registered accounts‘ in a world where F2P exists and the Turbines of the world announce number of characters created as an example … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy XIV, World of Warcraft | 20 Comments

FFXIV: People are nice due to design

Posted on February 19, 2015 by SynCaine

I haven’t done an update post about FFXIV since our return, in part because I wasn’t sure what to write beyond “Playing FFXIV again, still the best themepark out, still has that WoW-vanilla-but-in-2015 feel”, but this post from Loire is … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, Final Fantasy XIV, MMO design | 2 Comments

The not-so-short “what I’m playing” update

Posted on February 9, 2015 by SynCaine

First, thanks to most who commented in last weeks little checkup on the MMO genre, good times. I’d say lets hope when we revisit in 2016 we finally have a F2P champion to make things a little more interesting, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Boom Beach, Clash of Clans, Final Fantasy XIV, iPhone, League of Legends, Random | 9 Comments