With Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn set to launch in just over two months, we caught up with game director Naoki Yosihda at this year's E3 to find out how the game is coming along.

Fast forward a year later to E3 2013 and I was set to meet with Mr. Yoshida once again. I approached our meeting with  a follow-up on our previous conversation in mind. As a longtime Final Fantasy fan, I was never drawn to the EQ-like Final Fantasy XI and, at least at face value, FFXI was what I saw in Final Fantasy XIV on the run up to launch, ensuring that I would pass over it as well. I explained this oddity to Mr. Yoshida in our prior discussion; I just didn’t feel like FFXI or FFXIV screamed “Final Fantasy” at me. As someone who loves Final Fantasy games and MMOs, you would think that games like FFXI, and more particularly, FFXIV, would be an easy sell. They weren’t. How could that be?

Read more of Michael Bitton's Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: Catching Up with Naoki Yoshida at E3 2013.

Originally posted by sanshi44

Originally posted by H3deon

so cant we just cut out July already, and call it August? ><

I know right >< cant wait for august to roll round.

You are all going to poop yourselves.

Originally posted by Damage99
It's only recently become available to hype.

^^^ This one.  It'll balance out in a while most likely.

Now, see...that's interesting.  I also just noticed they call it "Endurance" not durability in the Soul Attunement vendor.

This kind of stuff is exactly why DP needs more of a tutorial, or at least more of those annoying popups.

From what I can tell in-game, it seems that repairing without using an SC Hammer will reduce the overall durability of an item.  Say you had 60/80 durability.  You go to repair it in the game, and the repair process fixes the item, but drops durability to 79/79.    

Now imagine you're at endgame, and have all your favorite items.  The more you repair your gear, the lower that overall durability score will drop, until it's nearly nothing.  UNLESS you use the SC hammers.    

However, I'd imagine that by then you can easily do some daily quests to keep gear up without dropping your durability.

Originally posted by evilastro

 

Aside from dragon slots, stable slots and bank slots, which all up will cost you about the same as 1 month sub per item. So in 3 months of normal sub cost you will have everything unlocked.  Everything else in the game can be earnt via daily quest. And I mean everything. Totally nickel and diming!

I mean, do you people even know what that means anymore? This isn't like Runes of Magic where its compulsory spending.  

P2W = In my eyes, where you're able to PAY to WIN the game, right?

So yeah, in this case... Dragon's Prophet isn't pay to win.  It's more "Pay to not be frustrated."

Originally posted by ECGangel

Originally posted by Varthander
You actually get your first flyng mount in the early lvl's if you choose the correct starting zone, and by early i mean lvl 7 or less. ( first dragon )

this.  in the PURETIA starting zone

Good to know!  I started in Hunak, and the 1st one you see is level 17 or so.

Originally posted by dyermaker714
Good article. Very informative. But jeeze, Ya gotta lay off the sauce, Bill. So many typos :P

My god, you are right.  I think I caught them all.  Blame it on lack of sleep.  :P

After the success of our inaugural Invitational Tournament for Guild Wars 2, we've been looking for a way to increase our participation in the eSports scene that's quickly building with ArenaNet's game. With that in mind, we've partnered up with the all new Mist League: the first fan-driven world-wide league for competitive PVP in Guild Wars 2.  With the massive help of ArenaNet and the community of GW2, we look forward to what the future holds.

What does this mean for the short term? MistLeague.com will become a part of the MMORPG.com network right alongside RTSGuru and FPSGuru, and the two of our sites will partner on content (interviews, streams, news, etc), while most all of the more specific content for GW2 related items will be hosted at MistLeague.com (guides, streams, tournaments, rankings, sPVP forums and so much more).  

In the long-term, our goal is to help make Mist League the premiere website for all things GW2 PVP, and more importantly: GW2 eSports.  Tournaments with larger prize pools, open to anyone who can qualify, are just around the corner.  We truly cannot wait to see what you think of what Mist League and MMORPG.com are putting together, and we hope you'll join us in this adventure.

For now, head on over to Mist League, make an account, and get to talking shop! There will be a bevy of content on the site soon, so stay tuned for developments!

For some, it seems the notion of developers wanting to make any money on Free-to-Play games is a ludicrous idea. In this week's column, we discuss the fact that F2P games, while free, aren't a actually a charity.

The point in all this is that it takes money to actually create and support these games, especially for a smaller studio like Gazillion. None of this sort of complaining is unique to Marvel Heroes, of course, but it just continues to grind my gears that there are some players that don’t seem to understand that while these games are free – they are still a product and a business. Yes, they want to make money off of you. This isn’t a secret, nor is it insidious.

Read more of Michael Bitton's F2P Isn't a Charity.

To help get the word out about the upcoming Guild Wars 2 event: Dragon Bash, ArenaNet sent us at MMORPG.com a hefty purple and green dragon pinata to well... bash.  Ever the resourceful geeks, we caught up with the LARP group Knight Realms to make sure the bashing went well.  And of course, we filmed it for you all to see. It's pretty epic... but maybe only because of the song.

Be sure to watch the incredible display for some looks at what to expect in the upcoming Guild Wars 2 content update: Dragon Bash!

Originally posted by KingofHartz
I really live in a hole. I should have had this downloaded and ready to go for when I get home. Oh well I will load it up take the wife out while its downloading and then get lost in dragons prophet later tonight.

That level 13 pick is pretty epic, when you look that awesome at level 13, I think you do just what you did, snap a picture, stand back and go holy crap I look awesome, people need to see me.

To be fair, that's cosmetic armor.  :)

Originally posted by Maquiame

Originally posted by Jowen
How does the list look like for somebody who does not have the faintest interest in fantasy settings?

Look up Destiny its on consoles but its a sci fi mmo by Bungie.

Truth, but Destiny's not hitting this year. /sadface

ITS STILL IN OPEN BETA FOR A REASON... Stop trying to rush it.

So if a new resturaunt in town opens up and does an opening special and gave everyone food posioning, they should not be held accountable?  That is essential the mentality "open-beta."  Like peopel have said and Suzie says, the moment you accept money from the in-game store then the game is released.

And it's nice to see the fans outright diss the review even though most agree to the scoring.  http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?311821-MMORPG-com-s-Neverwinter-Review

I feel like they're not bashing the review itself, but the argument between beta and release.  That, and most users there seem to think this is the woeful MMORPG.com of a few years back, not today.  I think we've really come a long way in our content, and I hope you guys are starting to see the fruits of our efforts.