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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO minipet?

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Minipets: Either you love 'em and collect 'em like crazy, or you don't care for 'em and resent that I've been shortening "them" for...
Everything old is... well, it's actually still old.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 216: Star Wars frenzy

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Justin and Bree discuss big SWTOR expansion news, plus news from WoW, Blizzard, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, TERA, Albion, Blade & Soul, and DDO, with a mailbag question on MMO expansion difficulty.

Choose My Adventure: The Slayer skill and the power of cabbage in RuneScape

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Talk about a landslide decision. This round of adventuring for CMA saw my husband and I take up the Slayer path in RuneScape, which...

Leaderboard: Where do you stand on the ‘secret’ City of Heroes emulator?

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Last night, we covered the emerging scandal in the City of Heroes community and broke the confirmation that yes, there is in fact a...

The Daily Grind: How open-ended do you want your MMORPGs to be?

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A few months ago, MOP's Justin was gently teasing me about playing on a Star Wars Galaxies emulator, and he asked me about my...
Collide.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood in review – The main scenario

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All right. It's all over but the waiting, and that means it's time to start picking apart the Final Fantasy XIV expansion we're now...
House of skulls.

Not So Massively: Five things I love about Anthem

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It is by now clear that Anthem had a fairly tortured road to launch. I don't wish to condone the clearly appalling conditions BioWare...

The Daily Grind: Will you go back to SWTOR for Onslaught?

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This weekend, we covered some pretty exciting news for Star Wars MMO fans: BioWare is launching a massive new expansion for Star Wars The...

Battle Bards Episode 142: Sunrise, sunset

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In MMORPGs across the world, days are beginning and days are ending — and with them come the catharsis of the sunrise and sunset....

The Survivalist: Why I love survival games but refuse to touch Atlas

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I love survival sandboxes. They give me that virtual world experience I'm missing from most MMOs. And I can build! So, why won't I...
Not scary any more.

The Daily Grind: What MMO has the absolute worst official site?

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Every so often I'm reminded of how hopelessly bad the Final Fantasy XI site actually is. I don't entirely blame the designers; the site was designed...

Into the Super-verse: Trying DC Universe Online for the first time

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While this column will no doubt be looking at the superhero MMO releases that are currently in development, it's also here, as we said,...

The Daily Grind: What makes you dismiss an MMO without ever trying it?

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I would say that I'm generally -- generally -- a fairly open person when it comes to trying out MMORPGs and other games. I...

Jukebox Heroes: The best of Astellia’s soundtrack

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One of the more promising MMORPG imports that should be arriving in the west this year is Astellia, and we here at Massively OP...

The Daily Grind: Do you have a ‘port in the storm’ MMORPG?

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Yesterday, we covered the news that Elder Scrolls Online is actually implementing queues and adding more capacity and new hardware to handle what its...
Oh, I see it.

Vague Patch Notes: The community is and is not the MMO

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The community is not the MMO. That should be obvious. There is a game to League of Legends that exists without any of the toxic...

Warframe of Mind: The Plains of Eidolon Beautification Project

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Sometimes when an MMO adds new zones, previous ones are left behind and seemingly forgotten when development moves on. I am not naming names,...
Jump around?

The Daily Grind: Do you prefer target locks or free aiming in MMO action combat?

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In the world of active combat, the mechanics are split between two separate yet equally important combat styles. The first is the open free-aiming...

Hyperspace Beacon: I can’t believe I forgot these things about Star Wars Galaxies

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For the last couple of weeks, I've been able to re-experience Star Wars Galaxies. After eight years, I noticed that I might have forgotten...

Desert Oasis: Understanding and critiquing Black Desert’s RNG systems

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One of the main critiques readers made about my first Desert Oasis column last month was that I did not mention Black Desert's random...

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