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Massively Overthinking: Picking the ‘wrong’ MMORPG class

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Last month, the MMORPG subreddit slept on a good thread about picking classes in MMOs. Let's wake this sucker up. "Am I the only...
Tumble

Fall Guys shows off one of the new maps arriving as part of its fourth season

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The fourth season of Fall Guys is supposedly being announced on March 15th with a whole trailer for what to expect, but fans of the...
Ooh, dis.

Kakao Games’ upcoming survival sandbox Dysterra begins alpha March 18

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Eager for another survival game in your library? Kakao Games is publishing the upcoming title Dysterra, an Unreal Engine 4-powered survival game in which players...
Point.

Vague Patch Notes: The sneering elitism of the MMO term ‘welfare epics’

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A few weeks ago, I saw an MMO player unironically complaining about "welfare epics" here in 2021. This is basically the equivalent of saying,...
Complexity.

World of Warcraft’s Wandering Ancient mount is out, but it’s taking some time to roll out

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The community was asked, and they answered. World of Warcraft players are finally getting the community-voted mount, the Wandering Ancient, a big walking treant with...
The stuff that you have, does someone have a claim on it?

The Daily Grind: What’s the oldest MMO change or update you’re still a little angry about?

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I still find Final Fantasy XI's old vague patch notes so annoying ("The potency of certain actions has been adjusted") that I named an entire...
This is not a doll.

Final Fantasy XI rolls out new Voracious Resurgence content and a new Odyssey foe

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The March version update has arrived for Final Fantasy XI, and that means players can face off against a new foe in Sheol: Gaol as...

Leaderboard: Are you hyped for WoW Burning Crusade Classic?

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I don't think I've ever seen people fight over the details of a classic server as hard as they do for WoW Classic. Dipping...

Gamigo has laid off an unspecified number of RIFT devs, says MMO will continue

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Yesterday, we learned through a trusted tipster that multiple Gamigo developers situated in the US and working on RIFT had been laid off from...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: Ten things that killed me in Final Fantasy XI

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In many ways, Final Fantasy XI was a designed copy of EverQuest. It did, however, remove a lot of the elements of that game in particular....

Black Desert players vote on next GM events as latest PC update brings new quests and plump pufferfish

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What sort of GM-led events will PC players of Black Desert be seeing next? Well, if the results of a player poll are any...

EU MechWarrior Online, RUST servers go offline following French data center burning to the ground – no one hurt

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Well, this might be a first for the MMO industry: The data center in Strasbourg, France, that housed MechWarrior Online's servers was partially destroyed...

The Daily Grind: Where’s the love for MMO Engineers?

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If you announce that your MMO is going to have an Engineer class of some kind, then congratulation: I'm going to play it. In...
sprung

MapleStory previews the upcoming Spring Blossoms update, complete with cafe and Mechanical Hearts

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Spring has not yet quite sprung into MapleStory, but it's soon to spring away with the game's upcoming Spring Blossoms update coming in the near...
Yarr.

Atlas Q&A acknowledges problems with Alliances, island assaults, and experience

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Depending on your perspective, the latest community Q&A for Atlas will be either positive or frustrating. For example, if you're hoping to hear some acknowledgement...

Choose My Adventure: Fizzle frustration, boss beatdowns, and slowly forming strategies in Wizard101

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Remember last week how I wrote about being surprised at the depth of Wizard101’s combat? This week I learned that the game’s combat can...
This is new, this is new, this is new.

Star Trek Online podcast to introduce Gene Roddenberry’s son to the MMO

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When you have a dad who created one of the most famous scifi IPs of all time, you best ride those coattails all the...
If you look to your left, you will see a sad person.

Leaked internal email suggests that The Burning Crusade Classic will be in beta testing this month

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If you can't wait to go through the Dark Portal in WoW Classic, you can take heart that you may not be waiting all that...
Orbonne'd.

Final Fantasy XIV brings around another iteration of the Moogle Treasure Trove

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Need a little extra incentive to take on old content in Final Fantasy XIV? You'll get exactly that with the newest incarnation of the game's...
Teamwork.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s forced grouping serves an important purpose

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It's not exactly a secret, but just in case you didn't know this, Final Fantasy XIV has dungeons that are absolutely necessary to progress...

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