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FFXIV

1. Patch 4.5: A Requiem for Heroes
2. Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
3. Final Fantasy Fan Festival (2018-2019)
4. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III: Zenos was the best part of SB
5. Important changes to Prohibited Activities and Account Penalty Policy - Change My Mind

Don't forget to preorder your collector edition of Shadowbringers to have access to Eureka 2.0.



FFXI

1. New or Returning Players Discussion 3: FFXI Single Player Edition
2. Dev Tracker: Discussion II
3. Gearswap Help Thread 2: this time it …

After nearly thirteen years (or over thirteen years if you played the Japanese release), Square Enix finally released the sequel to Kingdom Hearts II and the third numeric entry in the Kingdom Hearts franchise. Before I get into this review, it’s impossible to talk about Kingdom Hearts 3 without acknowledging the time it took to get here and games that came before it. Part of the issue is the peculiar numbering system the franchise has adopted. Yes, Kingdom Hearts 3 is the third numeric entr…

FFXIV

1. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III: Zenos was the best part of SB
2. Patch 4.5: A Requiem for Heroes
3. FFXIV drama: mansions, moogles and #metoo
4. BLU spell learning

FFXI

1. Happy 10th Banniversary!!!
2. New or Returning Players Discussion 3: FFXI Single Player Edition
3. Random Fail XIV: Who is your leader? Let me speak to him
4. Gearswap Help Thread 2: this time it makes sense
5. Dev Tracker: Discussion II

Press F to pay respects to all these people banned 10 years ago.



Games

1. Kingdom Hearts III
2. FF:…

When I was thinking about my game of the year for 2018 last month, one thing that stood out was the number of great indie games that I played over the past year. I’d go so far as to say that some of the best games I played last year were not major AAA titles, but indie games produced by smaller studios. I once heard someone express an apt sentiment about indie games, that the best indie games focus on a single aspect and perfect it.  There are obviously other pieces to these games, and some a…

Okay, so, this blog will be about my recent journey battling Cancer but I want to do a bit of back story for how me and my wives lives were before it went to complete shit.

First, we will start with my wife. She's currently 34 years old and has been dealing with Crohns since she was 18 years old. She's had a total of 5 Crohns related surgeries and for the last 10 or so years, shes been dealing with Fistulas. For those that don't know. a Fistula, from the way I was explained, is you have an abno…

FFXIV

1. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III: Zenos was the best part of SB
2. Eureka! The grind is on - Juxta is a community figure
3. Patch 4.2 (Rise of a New Sun) Jan 30th
4. FFXIV drama: mansions, moogles and #metoo
5. Patch 4.4 Live Letter(s)
6. Final Fantasy Fan Festival (2018-2019)
7. Possibly returning - Questions
8. Live Letter XLIII (Patch 4.3 Part I)
9. Reddit vs Discord Drama
10. Ungarmax Drama - Squadron Limit Break Exploit

Even the FFXIV drama is bad.



FFXI

1. New or Returning Players Discussion 3: FFXI Single Pl…

As gamers, the end of the year provides an opportunity to look back at the library of games each of us has finished over the last year. 2017 was an exceptional year filled with numerous phenomenal games. Compared to that overwhelming bounty, 2018 offered far fewer noteworthy games. Perhaps as a testament to the lack of remarkable games this year, we’ve got fewer responses this year compared to past years. Regardless, welcome to the 2018 BlueGartr Staff Game of the Year List!

Byrthnoth:…

FFXIV

1. Final Fantasy Fan Festival (2018-2019)
2. FFXIV drama: mansions, moogles and #metoo
3. Patch 4.4 Live Letter(s)
4. Reunite with Past Comrades with the FFXI ReFriender!
5. FFXIV Accomplishments Thread - Yay I did it!

Wait... what is the FFXI ReFriender doing here?



FFXI

1. New or Returning Players Discussion 3: FFXI Single Player Edition
2. FFXI BG LS in late 2018?!
3. Gearswap Help Thread 2: this time it makes sense
4. Reunite with Past Comrades with the FFXI ReFriender! (11/09/2018)
5. November 2018 Version…

If you have ever wandered away from your main goal in a video game, there’s a good chance you’ve stumbled across some type of secret. Secrets have been part of video games since nearly the very beginning. Whether it was a secret intended to assist players, or a hidden Easter egg, developers have been hiding secrets in games for years. The advent of the internet has changed this quite a bit, but game developers still hide secrets in their games, sometimes to help players, other-times to surpr…

FFXIV
WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYONE



FFXI

1. Dev Tracker: Discussion II
2. October 2018 Version Update
3. Connection issues; weird r0 occurrences
4. BG Wiki Update Megathread
5. BG Wiki Suggestions Thread

NVM I think I found some of them.



Games

1. FF:BE - Need One More Thread for STMR
2. Destiny 2 - Year 2, Season 4, Forsaken
3. FFRK Dorp Thread: A BRAVE New World filled with LMR laced salt
4. Super Smash Bros: Ultimate Switch Edition
5. Dragon Quest XI: In Search of Departed Time
6. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
7. Project Octo…

FFXIV

1. Patch 4.4 Live Letter(s)
2. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III
3. Possibly returning - Questions
4. FFXIV Accomplishments Thread
5. FFXIV drama: mansions, moogles and #metoo

Hurray we get to fight the genderfluids.



FFXI

1. September 2018 Version Update
2. Gearswap Help Thread 2
3. New or Returning Players Discussion 3
4. MMM findings
5. Connection issues; weird r0 occurrences

Who the fuck keep these threads alive.



Games

1. FF:BE - A Skinner box with plot
2. Destiny 2 [PS4/XBONE/PC] - Year 2, Season 4, Forsaken
3. D…

For both long-time fans and newcomers, Destiny 2 was seen as a bit of a disappointment at release. While the initial release was met with high praise, in an effort to respond to criticisms and issues raised by the community over its predecessor’s three year lifespan, Bungie made a number of design decisions which ended up having a negative effect on the long-term experience. Over the past year, Bungie has taken great strides to remedy many of these problems and has made a number of significan…

FFXIV

1. FFXIV drama: mansions, moogles and #metoo
2. Eureka! The grind is on
3. Patch 4.4 Live Letter(s)
4. Reddit vs Discord Drama
5. GC Squadron training

Grey parses, Eureka sucks again and copy pasta gear is bad.



FFXI

1. August 2018 Version Update
2. Gearswap Help Thread 2: this time it makes sense
3. New or Returning Players Discussion 3: FFXI Single Player Edition
4. Dynamis Farming
5. Dev Tracker: Discussion II

Hey this game actually gets threads about updates.



Games

1. FF:BE - A Skinner box with plot
2. Evo 2018…

OK so it's 2018 and people being lying turds online is nothing new as we all know. But this situation got my wheels turning and I felt like talking about it. First, a little backstory about myself and the internet.

I'm 37 and my first online experience was the free AOL floppy disc on a X386 PC my uncle gave us (I think) when I was 17. It didn't work out. When I was 19 and living with my sister we had internet and about all I knew was Napster, Limewire, and not much else. I didn't own my own PC…

FFXIV

1. Reddit vs Discord Drama
2. Patch 4.35 Notes
3. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III: Zenos was the best part of SB
4. Patch 4.4 Live Letter(s)
5. Final Fantasy Fan Festival (2018-2019)

TLDR: Reddit vs Discord Drama > HoH



FFXI

1. Dev Tracker: Discussion II
2. July 2018 Version Update
3. New Recipes - July 5th, 2018 Version Update
4. Ask the Final Fantasy XI development team your questions on Reddit
5. Gearswap Help Thread 2: this time it makes sense

At least the BG Wiki team is good at generating their own drama.
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This weekend, thousands of fan’s gathered at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to cheer as the London Spitfire and Philadelphia Fusion competed in the Grand Finals of the inaugural season of the Overwatch League. While this isn’t the first major e-sports championship, or even the largest, the Overwatch League is the first e-sports league I've followed closely and offers a good starting point to consider the history of e-sports and recent efforts to bring e-sports to more mainstream audiences.

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FFXIV

1. FFXIV drama
2. FFXIV Random Praise Thread
3. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III
4. XIV x Monster Hunter: World
5. Possibly returning - Questions
6. The crafting & gathering thread.
7. 4.3 Preliminary Patch Notes
8. Final Fantasy Fan Festival (2018-2019)
9. XIV Companion App (Android/iOS) - July 2018
10. FFXIV Accomplishments Thread

Special mention to this spammer that can't make the difference between XIV AND XV Type-D off-road car



FFXI

1. Dev Tracker: Discussion II
2. New or Returning Players Discussion 3
3. Ask the …

E3 2018 is officially over. Personally, I’ve come to evaluate E3 more by the ability of gaming companies to spark my excitement for games being released in the coming year, rather than games scheduled for some-point in the indefinite future. Going into E3 this year, I know I had a lot of expectations across the board -- there are many games in the pipeline that gamers have been anxiously awaiting, and it was about time for the next entry for a number of franchises. Maybe it’s because of thos…

FFXIV

1. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III: Zenos was the best part of SB
2. 4.3 Preliminary Patch Notes
3. Live Letter XLIII (Patch 4.3 Part I)
4. The Blue Gartr Cross Server Linkshell Thread.
5. FFXIV story/lore thread

1 week of content... Aaand it's gone.



FFXI

1. Dev Tracker: Discussion II
2. Gearswap Help Thread 2: this time it makes sense
3. New or Returning Players Discussion 3: FFXI Single Player Edition
4. May 2018 Version Update
5. BG Wiki Suggestions Thread

Still pushing more frequent update even if there's …

How many crabs have you killed? If you asked the average person, they would probably consider it a strange question that doesn’t merit much thought. However, if you’re someone who spent years playing Final Fantasy XI, I imagine that question is not so easy to answer. From Gustaberg, to Valkurm and Qufim, to Kuftal and Boyahda, it felt like we were always killing crabs. Looking back on it though, burning away hours murdering mostly identical blue crabs was kinda a weird way to spend our time…