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The Delicate Balancing Act of the Story of Newfound Adventure – A Review With Spoilers

This post is going to be laden with spoilers for the MSQ and eventually the role quest capstone of FFXIV’s newest patch, Newfound Adventure. If you haven’t… Read more “The Delicate Balancing Act of the Story of Newfound Adventure – A Review With Spoilers”

Endwalker’s early access window is coming up this week, and with maintenance scheduled and ready, everyone’s hype levels are rising to uncontrollable levels – mine included. One… Read more “Why Predictability Is Good And Makes Surprises – 2.5 Theories About Endwalker Prior To Launch”

(A Quick Heads-Up: there are some story spoilers that include content through the end of Shadowbringers in this post.) In a better world, today would be the… Read more “Some Endwalker Thoughts On What Would Have Originally Been 6.0 Maintenance Day”

Last night was a Producer Live Letter on FFXIV, and going in, most of us thought that it was going to be all sunshine and flowers on… Read more “All The Good News From The Endwalker Live Letter 67 (And The One Bad Thing), With Bonus Speculation”

Last night, I went on a little expedition online. I knew that FFXIV had datamining, but that its role was pretty constrained because the game’s data is… Read more “Why Seek Spoilers – The Effect of Datamining”

As a fun feature for the week, with Blizzconline on Friday, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to roam through what remains of the current… Read more “WoW Predictions Pre-Blizzconline Part 1 – The Lore Characters That Remain”

Spoiler alert – this post has spoilers for the content of patch 5.4 in Final Fantasy XIV, and some speculation about where the story goes from here.… Read more “How To Tell Stories of Peace and the Consequences of War – Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.4”

Warning – this post contains some hot, fresh spoilers for Shadowlands that appear to be available early due to bugged quest progress for some players in Torghast.… Read more “A Story of Choice – Where Shadowlands Goes From Here”

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”

(In case the cheeky title didn’t communicate this well enough, there are going to be huge spoilers in this post for potential story beats for Shadowlands, based… Read more “The Shadowlands Spoiler Review From Datamining – Featuring Lots of Spoilers!”