The Beast Tribe quests are meant as daily ways to gain EXP for your extra classes in that level range. It breaks up the monotony of having to do dungeons over and over again.

PlayStation Plus is not required for FFXIV. Just the normal monthly sub.

Another example: when Final Fantasy XIV added the Gold Saucer minigame area, they added the FFVIII card game “Triple Triad” to it as well. Best thing is that you can challenge NPCs and other players, and they even do tournaments. And once you have Triple Triad unlocked, you can collect new cards simply by doing…

Because they tend to canonically establish certain major characters as certain genders later in the franchise?

Oh my god. This is my hometown. I've been to Pine Garden dozens of times before I moved and the owner is the nicest person ever. Holy SHIT.

I was hoping you were but sometimes tone is hard to discern on the Internet, and given the amount of “lol ethics in journalism” comments Kotaku and Jason normally see, I couldn't tell.

Dear god please tell me this comment is a joke so I don't have to start drinking vodka at 3 PM on a Thursday.

A good example of a right way to do a cash shop on a paid game/service is to look at how Final Fantasy XIV implemented theirs. They were very upfront with the fans about it and kept them in the loop on how and why it was being developed, mentioned right out that it would never be a pay-to-win store (it’s simply for…

I really had hoped that FFXIV taught them a lesson, and that they’d learned from it. But I think that it was a lesson they only chose to apply until A Realm Reborn became a commercial success of a game, and then immediately discarded all of that knowledge and went right back to what they were doing before.

Except every major companion in New Who has fit into the “impossible girl” trope with the exception of Martha Jones (who walked the Earth for the Doctor, but didn’t become some all powerful entity or anything.) Rose Tyler was the Bad Wolf Entity and led herself through time and space to the point of her inception (A…

I’m really bothered by that tweet for the sake of the fact that it feels like SE is falling back into the same trap that led them to having such bad Final Fantasy games in the last console generation.

Honestly, Jack Harkness was the original “Impossible Girl” - thanks to RTD making him immortal in Parting of the Ways.

Phil Fish is another good example of an indie dev who went totally nuts dealing with the raw feedback of fans and people on the internet.

I remember when Ni no Kuni did something similar with their preorders for the Wizard Edition of the game. The “Ninostarter” - where the number of preorders determined the number of additional bonuses the CE ended up getting.

It may have been 8 years ago or whatever, but it is something that is so mind-bogglingly out there that people probably think its an urban legend.

The “PlayStation Portable White” ones? I still think whoever was in charge of their marketing department from like 2006-2009 was on all kinds of drugs.

You do realize the whole “handwaving away” Missy’s return is literally a callback to Classic Who though right?

The game itself is being created by Niantic, who made Ingress. I'm certain the technological know-how for an augmented reality title is more than present with them helming the project.

You get two in game minions (FFXIV’s version of pets) of two of very important story NPCs.

Square hasn’t given post-Expansion numbers on subs and active accounts yet. We’ll probably see that around the end of the month during the Two-Year Anniversary Livestream.