I last played now-beloved MMO Final Fantasy 14 in 2014, when it was only a few months old—not counting those first few aborted years prior to its relaunch as A Realm Reborn. I thought it was okay at the time, but it cemented itself as one of the genre's all-time greats with its next few expansions (or so insist several members of the PC Gamer team who still play).
I've mostly watched from the sidelines, glad not to be dumping months of my life into an MMO, but the fiery hand of FOMO has gripped me on occasion—like when I learned that Final Fantasy Tactics designer Yasumi Matsuno had designed a raid for the game, or when Yoko Taro went and did some weird Nier stuff in there.
