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Vague Patch Notes: How MMO studio communication and player confidence really work

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Here's the funny thing about communication from MMO studios: It's vital to the continued feeling of a healthy game, and yet at the same...
Man-dope.

Star Wars: The Old Republic discusses the character designs for Mek-Sha’s former Mandalorians in Onslaught

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There's a lot of work that goes into even the background characters in Star Wars: The Old Republic. A new internal interview with lead world...

Guild Wars 2’s Living World magazine teases Bound with Blood, hardmode episode encounters

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If you're old enough, you remember back when there were multiple competing video game magazines, and most of them would gladly run multi-page spreads...

WoW Classic: Character transfers, new realms, Twitch records, and most popular classes

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If you thought that the second week of WoW Classic's operation would be any less hectic than the first, you're in for some disappointment....
And if I press it enough time, sometimes there's a story!

The Daily Grind: Have queues ever turned you off from an MMO?

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Queues bother me. I'd like to say they don't, but they really do. I don't take them as a personal affront or anything, though;...
Good car, bad game.

Final Fantasy XIV is experimenting with social media support through November

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If you've got an issue with your Final Fantasy XIV account, you have another way of getting support through November 29th. Square-Enix has announced the...
External.

PvP MMORPG Eternal Magic’s closed beta starts today

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Originally, the closed beta for Eternal Magic was supposed to start on July 17th. That didn't happen; instead, the game announced a delay before the...

City of Heroes Homecoming players have rolled almost a million toons to date

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I've always said that if I could do one thing in video games - you know, besides what I already love and do -...
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Pearl Abyss takes over for Nexon and NCsoft as the biggest exhibitor at South Korea’s G-star

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It's really unusual that neither NCsoft nor Nexon will be exhibiting this year at South Korea's G-Star conference in November. This prompted some nervousness...
Very mature.

World of Warcraft: Classic’s inevitable goldsellers are using modern chat functions to advertise

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Gold selling isn't nearly as much of a thing on modern World of Warcraft like it used to be; the existence of the WoW Token...
I do crimes.

A retailer release list doubles down on rumors for an Overwatch release on the Switch

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With the next Nintendo Direct event for fans in the very near future, the rumors of Overwatch arriving on the Nintendo Switch are flying even...

Here are the realms WoW Classic is opening up for transfer – and the three new servers opening too

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Last night, Blizzard announced something it'd previously said it didn't want to do: It's opening up character transfers for WoW Classic so that players...

The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you got absolutely sucked into an MMO?

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I both love and hate those periods of time when I get sucked into an MMORPG. Usually this comes when a game first launches,...
Them's fightin' words.

Neverwinter spices up PvP with new seasons and campaign mechanics

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The most recent patch for Neverwinter added a new arena, but the game's PvP changes aren't stopping there. Players will have even more reason to...
Please come back.

World of Warcraft: Classic is opening up free character moves in the near future

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Please, people, if you are on a congested realm in World of Warcraft: Classic, please move off of it. That's the implicit plea in...
I've got a lot of problems with you people!

Final Fantasy XIV’s second anniversary story follows the path of Estinien’s travels

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The anniversary fiction for Final Fantasy XIV is as much of a tradition as the actual in-game event for the rising, and this year is...

Choose My Adventure: In which Apex Legends makes me feel extremely old

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I'm a firm believer of "You can't dislike it unless you know it," a sort of twist on the "Don't knock it 'til you...
Very mature.

Global Chat: WoW Classic impressions mega-compilation

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When World of Warcraft launches, the world stops to pay attention. The recent release of WoW Classic didn't just pull in hundreds of thousands of...

Guild Wars 1 fan remake posts trailer with Gwen’s flute, Prince Rurik, and plenty of river scale

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Fans of the original Guild Wars might remember that this past spring we reported on an amateur game designer named Jomo who was looking...

The Daily Grind: Which class would you just love to port from one MMO to another?

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Earlier this summer, Standing Stone Game announced a brand-new and unique class for Dungeons and Dragons Online: the Alchemist. No, it's not just another...

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