Eliot Lefebvre
Senior Reporter
Eliot Lefebvre has been writing on Massively Overpowered since it was created after a long and illustrious career of writing about video games for half a decade on some other site that you might have heard about. He currently pens Wisdom of Nym for Final Fantasy XIV, WoW Factor for World of Warcraft, and the industry and culture speculation of Vague Patch Notes. He also shares writing duties on Perfect Ten and writes some nonsense for What Are You Playing. No photos of him standing next to seventeen lizards in a trench coat have surfaced, coincidentally.
Twitter: @eliot_lefebvreStreaming: Snippy Harold
WRUP: Unexpected crossover farm life games edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about our favorite movies and TV shows that came out before we were born.
Betawatch: SMITE 2’s first alpha, Legends of Aria’s Classic beta
Good morning, SMITE 2. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to enter your first testing phase this weekend. Your continuing mission...
WoW Factor: There’s probably never going to be a World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’
As I always do when discussing World of Warcraft (and anything else, really), I am putting my cards on the table here: I am...
Final Fantasy XI outlines its bonus anniversary campaigns for its 22nd (!) anniversary
This month marks the 22nd anniversary of Final Fantasy XI, which means that if you're feeling like we just celebrated this a year ago......
Why I Play: Stardew Valley is still something special
I'd been saving this for myself for weeks now. It was late Saturday when I finally decided it was time to stop waiting and...
The Daily Grind: What challenge in an MMORPG resulted in your most shameful string of deaths?
Hello, my name is Eliot, and back when City of Heroes launched the character I made at launch 20 years ago could not kill...
Final Fantasy XIV is adding new logistical data center for European players May 7
What if you wanted to log in to a new logistical data center in Europe to play Final Fantasy XIV, but Naoki Yoshida looked...
Perfect Ten: 10 times World of Warcraft was killed forever
As many of you reading this may know, World of Warcraft is a game that launched and then immediately died forever. It then proceeded...
WoW Classic Cataclysm patch notes are up ahead of tonight’s prepatch launch
So we've been over the fact that World of Warcraft fans will find that WoW Classic is rolling plenty of hashtag ch-ch-ch-changes into Cataclysm...
Wisdom of Nym: It’s OK that your Final Fantasy XIV character is going to look different in Dawntrail
So we've all had a chance at this point to play around with the benchmark for the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion, and that...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the coziest inns?
Look, it's time to accept and understand a fundamental truth about Star Wars: The Old Republic, perhaps the game's greatest failing. Cantinas? Not comfy....
WRUP: We are just talking about sheep edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! It's about sheep. Also we're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about toys.
Betawatch: Age of Water and Bellwright enter early access
For some reason we keep letting games enter early access, and this week saw two more hit that stage of release, with both Age...
Into the Super-verse: Why the resurrection of 20-year-old City of Heroes is worth celebrating, even if you don’t play
There's a certain poetry to the fact that this year, on the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes, we can all play the game...
WoW Factor: Exit BlizzCon, for good this time?
Back in 2021, we learned that there was not going to be a BlizzCon 2022. This did not surprise me, and I penned a...
World of Warcraft is retiring the Companion App as it looks forward to the Cataclysm Classic conversion
If you're still salty about being asked this ages ago, don't worry, World of Warcraft fans. Blizzard no longer cares if you have a...
Vague Patch Notes: When MMO designers build traps for players
So last week, I spent a whole lot of words talking about what "the meta" actually means when it comes to MMOs. Put very...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG with level scaling handles it worst?
Considering the fact that every MMORPG is in a war of content basically forever, I say it makes sense that they would embrace level...
The Wagadu Chronicles has released its Dungeons & Dragons 5E-compatible tabletop rulebook
You may or may not feel that The Wagadu Chronicles as it currently exists in its playable state is delivering on its premise. We're...
What to expect from Final Fantasy XIV’s returning Yo-Kai Watch crossover event tomorrow
Here's the good news for players who already did everything possible in the Yo-Kai Watch crossover with Final Fantasy XIV: The new framer's kit...
