Opinion

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The Daily Grind: What future games give you hope for MMOs?

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There is no doubt we have definitely moved into a different era of MMORPG development, with super-huge AAA-budget titles and releases being a thing...

The Daily Grind: Are you still excited for today’s BlizzCon reveals?

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This is a rough year to be excited about BlizzCon. It was a rough year a while back, with World of Warcraft in the midst...

Battle Bards Episode 155: FFXIV Shadowbringers

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Welcome to the “Cursed Episode” of Battle Bards, where you’ll be risking bad luck and poor RNG rolls just by hearing it! But it...

Massively Overthinking: The problem with MMO ‘dailies’

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Longtime MOP Patron and friend of the site Avaera recently posed us an intriguing questions about daily login rewards in MMORPGs. "Recently my game of choice,...
Back in time.

Vague Patch Notes: Does BlizzCon have a future in its current form?

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BlizzCon 2018 was a pretty unnecessary disaster for Blizzard. It managed to demolish any hopes people had about Battle for Azeroth rounding the bend and...
Throngs.

Check out Red Dead Redemption 2’s PC launch trailer ahead of the game’s November 5 release

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Know what's happening Tuesday? Well, a bunch of things. Voting tops my own list. And also Red Dead Redemption 2's PC launch, and that...
Minnesota is hard done by here.

The Daily Grind: Would you pay a sub to play Guild Wars 2?

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Hear me out - not trolling here. I've been thinking about this all week, ever since the uproar over the pricing for Guild Wars...

Guild Wars 2’s analytics boss on why he hates having to create a ‘fun score’ for games

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We all know that what's fun is pretty subjective, but it's the job of folks like ArenaNet's John Hopson to produce a "fun score"...

Perfect Ten: What I learned about ArcheAge Unchained as a complete newbie

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As I was going through my first evening in ArcheAge Unchained, thanks to the new buy-to-play release, I was kicking myself for going into...

The Daily Grind: Will BlizzCon weaken gamers’ #BoycottBlizzard resolve?

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Two forces are destined to collide at this coming weekend's BlizzCon: the force of fan fury over Blizzard's recent actions and the force of...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 244: An Onslaught of news

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Justin and Bree discuss Onslaught aka SWTOR's first expansion in three (!) years, Fallout 76's latest kerfuffle, the return of Kritika Online, ArcheAge's ArchePass confusion and rework, DDO's mounts, BlizzCon, and Halloween, with a mailbag topic on MMO toxicity.

Choose My Adventure: Torchlight Frontiers says goodbye to me with a hearty kick to the butt

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It seems that the final week of Torchlight Frontiers wanted to see me out with some bruises on my butt. I don’t know whether...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Quality-of-life upgrades Guild Wars 2 still needs

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Today, ArenaNet is finally launching the long-awaited build and gear template features in Guild Wars 2. While it has brought with it its fair...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most boring MMO dungeon of all time?

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I dunno why I'm even asking this question. It's Oculus. But I'd forgotten Oculus even existed. It popped back into my head the other day...
Kershadow

Wisdom of Nym: Prepping up for Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.1

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Here we are, people; the day before Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.1. It's happening tomorrow, so let's hope you've finished up anything you wanted...

Not So Massively: Four things Anthem can do to turn itself around

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I've been a cheerleader for Anthem from the get-go. I believe BioWare's multiplayer shooter is a good game with huge potential to become a...

The Daily Grind: What MMOs do you play ‘wrong’?

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On the MOP podcast a few weeks back, Justin and I chatted briefly about playing MMOs all wrong, and not really caring what anyone...

Global Chat: Starting over in ArcheAge

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The (re)launch of ArcheAge Unchained is of significant interest to certain parties who are hoping that this "do over" finally will propel this sandbox...
Nope.

The Daily Grind: Are you still on board the Kickstarter MMO train?

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An interesting thing happened when Justin put out his list of Kickstarted MMOs that raised the most money; the comments pointed out that the...

The Game Archaeologist: A brief history of Multi-User Dungeons

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You know that sinking feeling when you get into something that's way, waaaay over your head and you have no choice but to swim...

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