Anna Clemens, who has been developing Final Fantasy XIV plugins for three years, is an outlier among the FFXIV modders I've talked with. She publishes under the name 'ascclemens,' and she doesn't make ...

The creator of a popular but unauthorised Final Fantasy XIV mod has admitted to including malware that can shut down a user's PC. Gshade, a mod that allows users to tinker with the MMORPG's visuals, ...

A new FFXIV mod surfaced earlier in January 2025 that had potentially serious repercussions for player privacy in the MMO game, and Square Enix is considering equally serious responses. The mod, ...

During the Letter from the Producer Live on Friday, Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida doubled down on a statement against a now-infamous “stalker mod.” The mod in question lets ...

Josh Tolentino is Senior Staff Writer at Siliconera. He previously helped run Japanator, prior to its merger with Siliconera. He's also got bylines at Destructoid, GameCritics, The Escapist, and far ...

Virtually all of the earlier games in the popular Final Fantasy franchise incorporated some form of damage indicator. Final Fantasy XIV, however, did away with the damage indicator, which can make it ...

For those not in the know, Mare Synchronos is a cosmetic mod that allows players to mirror the cosmetic appearance of another player in real-time. If the mirrored player changes their outfit, the ...