The problem is that small servers offered no benefit to players before the introduction of Cross World Party Finder during the end of Heavensward’s expansion.

The problem is that people just hung out in their garrisons and the game became very isolationist. FFXIV has their housing designed around a neighborhood structure in order to make things feel more social.

Between the two of them they have 16 personal houses (one per character - 8 characters total per person), and then 12 of those characters also run Free Companies that have access to the ability to purchase land.

Its due to the game’s server infrastructure and the fact that the housing isn’t instanced - it’s set in open neighborhoods that the playerbase can openly explore at will.

The blame for this rests mostly with Square Enix for not having the foresight to design more housing instances for players - and also for not limiting the number of houses a single player account can own. Honestly, given the shortage - they should limit players to a single personal house per account per server.

Don’t worry Mike, as someone who completed the Stormblood storyline earlier in the week - all I can say is that you’re in for one hell of an incredible ride through the second half of the story.

Yes. Both expansions are vastly different from the initial core story.

His grammar isn’t improper. He’s using the royal “we”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we

SE announced the names of both primals being seen in Stormblood, along with the name of the raid, back in October of last year. Who they are isn’t really a spoiler - how they’re summoned and why is the main plot point, as well as the actual fight itself.

Admittedly, I have to say I’m kinda annoyed that Kotaku has been entirely silent upon information or anything regarding the release of Stormblood or anything leading up to it (I checked the site regularly but there was literally no coverage on the expansion that I could find for the last couple months) but the second…

The title of the song is actually “1-Up Girl”.

Yeah, agreed. Sarkeesian can and does make good points at times but she’s bad about moving goal posts so that nothing is ever enough. Fem Freq is like that a lot in general, which is why I tend to take a lot of their stuff with a grain of salt. Sometimes their points are valid and their critiques well reasoned. And…

The new expansion for FFXIV is coming out on the 20th (early access on the 16th). So XIV might be worth the time to check back in on.

For people getting a “not available in your country” error, here’s the full video on Vimeo (not blocked in the US):

I think its totally fine to not want to romance any of the options in Persona 5. Its entirely likely and possible that Akira/the Protagonist might not actually be interested in any of the options the game presents. I have a friend on her first playthrough and she’s in the same boat - she basically is playing Akira/the…

You also only played a demo and not the final product. The final game was way different in terms of playability from the demos.

I think he means XIII (13). 14 didn’t have two sequels, 13 did.

I find it strange that Rime is being scrutinized while The Witness (a very repetitive and bland puzzle-game trying too hard to be Myst) got a ton of praise.

If I recall it correctly: It was an indie game being made by one person that eventually got bought by a slightly large (but still small) development studio that redid a lot of the original game’s work.

Eureka was such a great show and I was so sad to see it prematurely ended. That said, six seasons is a pretty damn good run and they wrote a decent ending to the entire thing, so I can’t be too mad.