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FFXIV’s A Realm Reborn will be ‘scalable’ for next-gen consoles
When Final Fantasy XIV’s A Realm Reborn launches later this year on PC and PlayStation 3, each version will represent a scaled version of the game’s highest settings. But with talk of next-gen consoles getting louder and louder, does it make sense to stick with the PlayStation 3? Square-Enix producer/director Naoki Yoshida thinks so, but…
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FFXIV:A Realm Reborn beta planned for this fall
Final Fantasy XIV players, take note: Your days are numbered. Er, at least your days spent in the original FFXIV world. When the game’s rebirth, called A Realm Reborn, occurs later this year, the game’s servers will be taken offline. Rather than overlap the two versions of the game, Square-Enix director/producer Naoki Yoshida says the…
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Generating a wow factor in FFXIV
The more I see about Final Fantasy XIV’s relaunch, the more anxious I get. If you chat to learn more about FFXIV Power leveling message. If there’s any doubt remaining in the minds of others, let me be entirely transparent: I’m a big fan of Final Fantasy XIV. Wonders never cease, I know. To say that…
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Two years of spinning wheels in Final Fantasy XIV
Has it really been two years since Final Fantasy XIV launched? My collector’s edition box was purchase two years ago, and I wrote my last anniversary column a year ago, so I guess it must have been. And yet I still don’t feel as if it’s actually happened yet. Do you want to learn more…
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Final Fantasy XIV Relevant picture poster
Today Square Enix broadcasted the sixth installment of the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Letter from the Producer Live webcast, starring Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida as he responded to quite a few questions from the fans, read by Community Manager Toshio Murouchi. Square Enix President and CEO Yoichi Wada also attended for a…
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Before the start of the preparation:Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
What The Heck Does “Spiritbond” Mean? There is one last thing I want to cover because this kept coming up while I was playing and the game didn’t get around to explaining it to me for ages: Spiritbond. On each piece of equipment your character wears, you’ll notice another bar along the side of the…
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World of Warcraft loses over a million subs since February, now down to 8.3 million
The world’s most popular MMO has gotten a bit less popular in the last few months, it would seem. During today’s quarterly investor call, Activision-Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft’s subscriber numbers are down to 8.3 million. While that’s still nothing to thumb your nose at, it does represent a significant decline from the 9.6…
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Details on the class changes for World of Warcraft’s 5.4 patch
It’s one of the last patches of World of Warcraft’s Mists of Pandaria expansion, and that means one more set of adjustments to the game’s classes. You could, naturally, assume that all of the changes are being made because Blizzard hates your favorite class and loves your least favorite class. Or you could take a…
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Naoki Yoshida discusses the upcoming beta for Final Fantasy XIV
It won’t be long now until long-time Final Fantasy XIV players and eager test applicants can experience the beta of the game’s new version. Producer Naoki Yoshida has understandably been busy with the ramp-up, but he’s taken the time to pen a new letter for the game’s players that starts off by displaying all of…
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Final Fantasy XIV:One year of columns in review
Three years is not a lot of time to do anything. I’m continually surprised by the fact that I’ve been writing about video games professionally for three years of my life, which is admittedly only 10% of my life to date but still seems astonishing. This also marks the start of the third year of…