Final Fantasy XIV Features

The Real Life Commitment for a FFXIV World-First Raid Race

About six days after Dragonsong’s Reprise (Ultimate) went live alongside Patch 6.11 for Final Fantasy XIV, the first team in the world to clear it celebrated with jubilation and relief. It seem...

FFXIV is All About Fashion: How the Experts Gpose, Use Glamour, and Find Hidden Locations

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker tasked us, the Warrior of Light, with some very important quests like dueling with the forces of evil and saving the world. But little did Hydaelyn know I spent an...

Behind the Curtain of FFXIV’s Virtual Theatre Productions

As you take a stroll through the Goblet wards on Final Fantasy XIV’s Diabolos server, you can find an amalgamation of different houses, all of which are emblazoned with their own wondrous dec...

The Fancies 2021: Steven Strom's Game of the Year List

Another year, another landslide of problems to try and escape in the world of video games. I won’t go too deep on just how hard 2021 has been. I edited most of our end-of-year pieces by my coworkers....

FFXIV Patch 6.1 MSQ: The Knight in Black Hints at the Story's Future

The following article contains spoilers for Final Fantasy XIV Patch 6.1’s main scenario quest.

The FFXIV Cruise Chaser Mount Reignites Debate Over Paid Cosmetics

A few weeks ago, Final Fantasy XIV dropped the highly anticipated Cruise Chaser mount for $30 on its Mog Station digital store. The mount, along with the recent influx of vocal World of Warc...

FFXIV Aglaia Lore Dive: The Story Behind Nald'thal, Azeyma, Rhalgr, and Byregot

For many Eorzeans, their relationship with their patron deity is a personal choice brought on by any combination of socioeconomic, geographic, and cultural factors, meant to grant succor through praye...

Final Fantasy XIV: An Outsider's Perspective

I’ve tried to play Final Fantasy XIV twice. Both times I bounced off it after a half dozen hours or so, overwhelmed by the game’s imposing UI or losing interest in the early game gr...

FFXIV Endwalker: All New Healer Changes up to Level 90 and Sage Breakdown

One of the best things about our time playing the preview build of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker during the recent media tour was having access to every Job at level 90, including the upcoming R...

Ahead of Endwalker, the Voice Cast of Final Fantasy XIV Reflects on the Journey

When Peter Bramhill, the English voice actor for Thancred, reflects on the professional and personal impact Final Fantasy XIV has had on him, he recounts an experience from just earlier this ye...

Now Is The Time Clean Up That FFXIV Bucket List

We are in the gulf between worlds right now. The last major content update, patch 5.5 for Shadowbringers, has prepped the overall story for a transition and finished off the Nier-themed YoRHa: Dark Ap...

Our Time With FFXIV Endwalker Told Many Stories Without a Single Line of Dialogue

A wise catboy once asked, “How many years have I waited for this moment?” For finally getting hands-on with Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker? Well, about two years. Two very unique years. It’s wild...

FFXIV Endwalker Preview: A Walkthrough of Old Sharlayan, Garlemald, and Thavnair

Everyone is excited to go to the Moon, but Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is more than a lunar adventure. There will be a host of new locales to visit, friends to make, and monsters to kill on Eo...

Fishing in FFXIV is an Intimate Look Into its World (and an Easy Level 80)

What’s a JRPG without a fishing minigame? Wack, that’s what. No, I’m messing around. But what about JRPGs that go all-in on having whole gameplay systems and side stories built around fishing? Hell ye...

The Fancies 2021: Andrea Shearon's Game of the Year List

I’m gonna kick off my Game of the Year list with a spoiler: every year, when there’s a Final Fantasy XIV expansion, said expansion winds up being my number one. I still want you to pretend to...

The Final Fantasy XV Quest in FFXIV is Good and You Should Play It

The current in-game event going on in Final Fantasy XIV is the redux of the Final Fantasy XV crossover where you can nab a few items for a limited time like the Regalia car as a mount, N...

As an Exceptionally Disastrous FFXIV Player, I Have Raid Newcomer Advice

Eight years ago, I braved my first-ever MMO raid encounter with Final Fantasy XIV’s Binding Coil of Bahamut. Anxious, miserably shy, and relentlessly focused on people-pleasing, it only took...

FFXIV Endwalker Preview: Director Naoki Yoshida Reflects on Development Difficulties and the Last Decade

As Final Fantasy XIV approaches the release of its fourth expansion, it’s in the best position it’s ever been. The critically acclaimed MMO has over 24 million players worldwide. It’s the most...

FFXIV Endwalker's Reaper is Hella Fun: Job Overview and How It Works

One of the many things I was hyped about going into my hands-on preview session for Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker was learning and playing the new Jobs, Reaper and Sage. And let me tell you now,...

FFXIV Endwalker Preview: All-New Tank Level 90 Actions and Changes

Let’s talk tanks. We got to take a look at a small section of the upcoming Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker expansion, including job changes and new regions. The frontline warriors of FFXIV ...