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Vague Patch Notes: Datamining, leaks, unforced errors, and messaging

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So now that Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers has been released, basically everyone playing the game has completely forgotten that the expansion actually prompted some...
Well, you are a bit weak for MMOs on the Switch.

The Daily Grind: How do you feel about bots in MMOs?

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Let me be up-front with my own feelings: Bots are bad. Not robots, of course; we all know how I feel about robots. No,...

Desert Oasis: Taking a swing with Black Desert’s Tamer and her bō staff

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When I first started playing Black Desert, it was because I wanted to play a Dark Knight. From her animations, armors, and that sweet...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: How Final Fantasy XI shaped my MMO preferences forever

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Your first experience with something has an outsized importance. This feels like one of those statements people really want to argue with sometimes but...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO offering is filling your summer hours?

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We're only now in the middle of July, but so far it feels as though summer 2019 has been a non-stop rollercoaster of great...
Noice.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 229: Adventures in Albion Online

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Justin, Samon, and Bree discuss Daybreak, the new LOTR MMO Amazon is co-developing, EVE Online's comms blackout, Caravan Stories, and City of Heroes, with a sponsored segment on Albion Online's Percival update.

Choose My Adventure: The ‘hard mode’ of City of Heroes in Going Rogue

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Disaster! Our plucky Praetorian has plunged into a pit of perilous despair! The challenges of this bold new world are mounting, and the pint-sized...

The Soapbox: Hoping for Amazon to succeed where Lord of the Rings Online failed

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It's not often I really get excited about an upcoming MMORPG. Partly this is because of the industry slowing down, and partly this is...

The Daily Grind: What was the last MMORPG you played out of pure nostalgia?

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Yesterday, Rock Paper Shotgun penned a piece on video game nostalgia. Editor Brian Caldwell interviewed a pile of game devs about why specifically they're...
Oh, this... keeps my feelings where they were before, really.

Leaderboard: Do you care more about story or combat in MMOs?

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After E3, VG247 posted up an excerpt of an interview with Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red that included a startling comment: The studio...
And if you don't love me now, you will never love me again.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers’ balance issues ahead of the first patch

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So, here's the genesis of this particular column: Originally, my plan was to actually just talk about story beats from Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers...

Fight or Kite: Albion Online’s Percival update is for the solo players out there

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This week we saw a nice patch released for the world of Albion Online with its Percival update. It’s largely a general quality-of-life update...
Sorry, guy.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO would’ve benefited from early access?

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In our mailbag podcast a few weeks back, we answered a question about Wildstar, specifically about whether early access might have helped the game...

Global Chat: Sucked into Shadowbringers

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It's hard to deny the fact that this July, half of the online gaming population seems to be immersed into FFXIV's Shadowbringers expansion. And...
Time is on my side, after a fashion.

The Daily Grind: What bit of MMO control snobbery bothers you the most?

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I've been using my mouse for hotkeys for years, to the point that I feel most comfortable doing that for abilities rather than clicking....

LOTRO Legendarium: Five essential roleplaying tools for living in Lord of the Rings Online’s Middle-earth

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While you can and will find roleplaying active in many MMOs, there's something very conducive to Lord of the Rings Online's design and community...

The Daily Grind: Which online game has a personality that mirrors yours?

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Intentionally designed or not, every MMO and online game exudes a personality, and no two are exactly alike. It might be the cheerful anarchy...

Lawful Neutral: Dance studios, canvas bags, and ‘false advertising’ in the MMO industry

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As I was writing our Lawful Neutral expose of Nerd Kingdom a few weeks ago, I was pretty bothered by the conduct of the...
Would you like to see something unsettling?

WoW Factor: What would a factionless World of Warcraft look like?

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You know, part of me honestly figured that the speculation around World of Warcraft abandoning the faction split would have died out months ago...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO suffers the most from powercreep?

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Last month, an MOP reader named Swifty replied to our Daily Grind about the last MMO he'd quit by calling out EverQuest II -...

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