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As I’ve said before, Square Enix has a long history of going away from the norm on a design level and a corporate level. If you’re one of the unbelieving heathens who looked at Final Fantasy XIV and thought “well this will just continue diminishing until there’s nothing left of the development team,” I’m going [...]
Archive for the ‘Final Fantasy XIV’ Category
Final Fantasy XIV: PS3 Coming “At All Costs”
July 19th, 2011 
Omali I’m such an egg-head. Without regards to a certain outfit publishing a review of Final Fantasy XIV just before a major game-altering patch, hopeful fans of Square Enix’s baby may be giving up hope of ever seeing the game hit Playstation 3, which Square’s Yoshida has promised will only come as the defining moment where [...]
What Happened This Week: Three E’s Edition
June 14th, 2011 Omali One day I hope to go to E3, maybe when MMO Fallout becomes more popular than the single person reading this article (that would be you). As with every week, I open up with a question: If you wrote a blog like this, at what point do you throw up your hands and say “this [...]
What Happened This Week: 4/15-4/21 Edition
May 23rd, 2011 Omali This weeks question is for those of you who have quit an MMO (so virtually all of you). What level of interaction do you keep with your estranged title? Do you forget all about it and move on to your next title of choice, or are you one of those people who turns on jihad [...]
Square Enix Posts “Extraordinary Losses”
May 12th, 2011 Omali Square Enix posted a $16 million loss for Q1 2011, posting an even more bleak forecast for the rest of the year. The tsunami that hit Japan earlier this year is a major player in the report, coupled with the ongoing development of Final Fantasy XIV while the servers remain free of charge, and the [...]
Final Fantasy XIV Bots
May 3rd, 2011 Omali I’m going to use these bots in a good way, and not just because I want to simultaneously annoy the people who believe me to be paid by Square Enix to prop up Final Fantasy XIV, but also to greatly annoy the people who think I’m getting paid to associate Runescape with the cheater’s paradise [...]
What Happened This Week: 4/17-4/23 Edition
April 24th, 2011 Omali Every week I have a whole list of topics I want to talk about, that don’t fully fit in with the scope of the website. So I came to the decision, why not stick them in a weekly editorial? I’m also using this section to bolster some of the titles that don’t get talked about [...]
Hallelujah! Square Enix Restoring Services March 25th
March 22nd, 2011 Omali Amidst the disaster in Japan, what with the body count rising and the ongoing threat of even greater problems stemming from the nuclear power plants, it’s easy for us westerners (and more likely easterners) to forget that Square Enix fully suspended services for Final Fantasy XI and XIV last week Sunday. In a new lodestone, the [...]
Sony and Square Enix: Not Billing Japan This Month
March 13th, 2011 Omali With the recent earthquake in Japan, the power companies have asked that people and companies conserve as much power as possible, for fear of an electricity shortage. In response to the warning, Square Enix has decided to temporarily shutter services for Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV in Japan for at least a week, [...]
Did Somebody Say Official Forums? FFXI & FFXIV
March 9th, 2011 Omali Given Square Enix’s history of standard features either being implemented in an unnecessarily complicated manner, or simply not present at all, I can’t say I was surprised that Final Fantasy XIV launched without an official forum. Official forums in the ages of Final Fantasy XI (2002) were not common, although many of the MMOs from [...]
