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Tamriel Infinium: Big-name voice actors you didn’t know were in Elder Scrolls Online

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When Elder Scrolls Online players dived into the High Isle expansion this past week, among the many new delights was the addition of Billy...
KITTY!

The Daily Grind: Do you expect MMO studios to moderate in-game chat?

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Last week, a reader emailed us in frustration over in-game harassment going on in Elder Scrolls Online during Pride month. The reader's guild is...
No mom.

Wisdom of Nym: Examining Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.15 in the wild

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Sometimes it feels very weird when Final Fantasy XIV bribes me into doing content. Ameliance's custom deliveries are a prime example of this. You...

Fight or Kite: New World’s 3v3 arenas are unplayable if you’re not already level-capped

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We’re only about two and half weeks removed from the launch of 3v3 arenas in New World. This was a feature I was extremely...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO requires the least math from players?

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I have tried to explain to my kids that they will not stop using math in real life, even if they aren't in a...
A new road has begun.

The Daily Grind: How many people are you close to in your MMO of choice?

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For all that people sometimes tell me that MMOs are so much less social than they used to be, my experience honestly isn't all...

Into the Super-verse: Is there any hope left for the future of superhero MMOs?

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When we got the news in May that EG7 and Daybreak had canned its in-development Marvel MMORPG, I didn't have much of a reaction....

The Daily Grind: Should more MMOs include a ‘comeback’ system from defeat?

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We've seen this in so many action movies and television shows: Our hero is on the razor's edge of defeat, only to employ a...
Unseen.

WoW Factor: The shrinking landmass of World of Warcraft’s ‘Azeroth’

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Last week in this column, I told y'all a bit of a bluff. Well, all right, that's not true. Last week's column was about what...

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs make more effort to corral likeminded gamers?

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I've mentioned before that my husband has been playing a lot of Destiny 2 lately (fillin' the ol' Overwatch void), and it's led to...
I TRUSTED YOU

Perfect Ten: The stupid reasons I have had for sacrificing sleep for MMOs

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One of the most useful pieces of advice that I've gotten regarding making decisions for the future is also the simplest: Imagine yourself taking...
World Orlando Fontaine Warcraft, as always, is contractually obligated to show up here.

The Daily Grind: What intentionally sub-optimal choices do you make in your MMO?

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Some people very deliberately do not look up what the ideal ways are to play their character types in MMOs. They never read guides...
Dance Dance San d'Orialution

Design Mockument: Mocking up Final Fantasy XI-2

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"Wait just one cotton-picking minute," you say. "Square-Enix is not hurting for another MMO after Final Fantasy XI. It has one. It's called Final Fantasy...
Immoral.

Perfect Ten: 10 things you can spend money on instead of Diablo Immortal

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So how about that Diablo Immortal eh? Sure is a lot of "weeping and gnashing of teeth" surrounding its release, huh? But hey, it's for a...
Oh no.

The Daily Grind: Are you more into WoW Classic, WoW retail, or WoW none-of-the-above?

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With WoW Classic taking players into the Sunwell Plateau last month and WoW retail pushing into the final patch of Shadowlands' run, there's a...

Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go Fest 2022 was not the worst Go Fest by a long shot

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Let me start off by saying Go Fest 2022 was not perfect. We saw Pokemon learning moves they weren't supposed to, Flygon learning its...

Choose My Adventure: Slow-going through Final Fantasy XI’s more recently added systems

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First thing’s first: I have sorted out the way the aspect ratio option works. No more squished kitty! You’d think that’d be a pretty...

LOTRO Legendarium: Which LOTRO race is the best to play?

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Sometimes column topics come from idle inner dialogue, while other times they may arise from a desire to do some personal research that ends...

The Daily Grind: What counts as ‘gear’ in MMORPGs?

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As we noted in yesterday's piece on Diablo Immortal, there's been a lot of anger over a Blizzard bluename comment that prior to launch...
Voyage onward.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.15 is a bit late in its arrival

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I'm going to be honest: I hope this is the last time we have to wait for a halfway patch to get our tribal...

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