Every year I try to line up which games I want to play for the upcoming year. I figure for 2026 I'll post ahead of time in order to attempt to stick to a schedule and play them all. I don't think anything will come as a surprise.
Final Fantasy XIV - My main game for the last few years, this one is easy to keep. In addition to keeping up with the MSQ I want to finish up Cosmic Exploration, get a couple of crafting & gathering specific mounts, and perhaps redo my cottage once the housing changes finally hit the servers. Oh, and take advantage of the new glamour rules, both in making glams and selling glamour-related items. In other words, standard stuff in FFXIV.
EVE Online - I originally thought I'd wind down playing EVE this year. But the new Odysseus battlecruiser brought back some interest in the game. I built a Nestor a few years back and making the Odysseus would once again make my Sisters of EVE ship collection complete. I should also build two CONCORD ships, the Enforcer and Pacifier. I've already built a Marshal but I'd probably actually fly the smaller CONCORD ships around. At the very least I need to finish out the Winter Nexus event. I reached the end of the track and have the Persistence blueprint. I want to see what else opens up in the final week.
Final Fantasy X/X-2. I am guessing that the next FFXIV expansion will contain references to these two games so why not? In 2025 the single player game I finished was Ball x Pit. Time to find out what Spira is all about. Plus, what is blitzball?
EVE Frontier - EVE Frontier is a game under development and I highly doubt will release this year. Despised by many due to the presence of a blockchain, I get a kick out of the game's development away from EVE Online. At the very least I need to play the beginning of each cycle to run through the tutorial and a few hours more to experience changes in industry. I also might write up a post or three on the differences between Online and its younger cousin. To paraphrase an old movie, "Toto, we're not in New Eden anymore."
Star's Reach - A Raph Koster designed game, I really want to play his new sci-fi game. Of course, I thought that months ago when I picked up a game package but never downloaded the software. Now that the testing schedule is running more than half the week I might step into the pre-alpha. Or perhaps I'll wait until the alpha. Either way, Star's Reach is a game I really need to play in 2026.
In total a bit of a spread. Two very different MMOPRGs, two single-player JRPGs from the mainline Final Fantasy series, and two sci-fi games under development. Hopefully I'm not trying to bite off more than I can chew.
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