I simply have no choice but to rant about Nioh for some number of paragraphs.

I played Final Fantasy XIV last night. Sort of.

I didn’t really intend to play Shadowbringers. I thought I was done with Final Fantasy XIV forever, actually. But a few things combined to get me back in this game.

I did a weird thing: I bought Final Fantasy XV on Steam. It’s … not bad? Maybe?

We now bring you a brief Shadowbringers update.

Final Fantasy XIV is enjoying a massive surge in popularity this summer, but there are still a few things preventing it from reigning supreme in the MMORPG space.

Final Fantasy XV is on my mind this morning.

I’m going to play Final Fantasy XIII next. That’s a 13. Those roman numerals are confusing.

I have roughly 15 minutes to think of, write, edit, illustrate, and publish a blog post this morning.

It’s time for a brief Final Fantasy update.

Bless Unleashed: I mean, it’s free.

The Stupid Face Boss in Final Fantasy XIII and The Gandalf Moment in Final Fantasy XIV.

Yesterday I flippantly remarked, “Not exactly a deep meditation on the human condition,” about the Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers story so far. But there was a conversation that my mind keeps returning to: A conversation between the Crystal Exarch and Lord Vauthry.

I ran into a problem with Final Fantasy XIV and I thought I’d share the solution I came up with, because you certainly won’t find it anywhere on Reddit.

I wish the arbitrary geometric leveling curve didn’t mess up story pacing.

Sometimes MMORPGs make you play a different character for narrative purposes and I don’t like it very much.

I spent last night in Final Fantasy XIV standing at the Neverending Storybook (not the actual name) refreshing my memory on story events from the very end of A Realm Reborn and the post-Heavensward stuff with The Word Of The Mother and the Warriors of Darkness.

I was going to pull out one of seemingly hundreds of half-written posts to finish them, but then I realized I hate all of them! And now it’s evening. So here’s some screenshots. It’s from that game I’ve been playing. You know the one I mean.

Hey, writing blog posts every day isn’t that fun sometimes. Here’s some screenshots. From that same game again. Because they’re the only screenshots I took yesterday.

I didn’t even rename the screenshot files this time.

I’m waking up to this news that Final Fantasy XIV has closed off all the North American Aether servers to new players indefinitely because they can’t handle the strain anymore.

Yesterday I mentioned how much I worried that Final Fantasy XIV was staggering into their new expansion on duct tape and bailing wire, so I thought today I’d mention the MMORPGs that appear to have a much more solid technology base that I don’t have to worry about.

I finished the first ending of Shadowbringers. The one before the long series of post-expansion patches.

I started into the post-Shadowbringers Main Scenario Quest last night and got a whole two quests in before the game slammed a massive brick wall down in front of me.

Should I dive headlong into the vortex of Final Fantasy XIV endgame possibilities or should I detox and play something else?