FF14 director Yoshida adds fuel to my 8.0 theories as he promises that the MMO is "ready to change" in 2026

Naoki Yoshida's New Year message offers some sly hints towards the FF14 8.0 expansion and "an especially significant" step ...

They survived the MMO massacre of 2025, but 2026 is going to be a tense year for WoW and FF14: and for completely different reasons

In summary, Final Fantasy 14's been floundering—and 2026 will determine whether Creative Studio 3 is capable of properly turning the ship around and getting her in the right direction, again. World of ...
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WoW snaps up one of FF14's best features by letting players choose how many particle effects they want swamping their screens during raids

MMO Every MMO I play in 2025, I end up with a bag filled with trash—but that won't change any time soon, if at all MMO FF14 director Naoki Yoshida has big plans for the MMO after Dawntrail's ...
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World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are currently trading blows

It is no exaggeration to say that World of Warcraft has been the king of the MMO scene since it was released in 2004. Though it wasn’t the first of its kind, it wrote the book on many conventions that ...
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Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft are starting to meet in the middle on modding, and it's a strange new world for MMOs and their AddOn communities

This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer's very own MMORPG column. Every other week, I'll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we've ...