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The Daily Grind: Would you play an MMO with randomly generated characters?
MMORPGs are traditionally games where people spend a lot of time designing their characters. Even in titles where there's not much to character creation,...
Lord of the Rings Online nerfs Ill Omens event rewards
If you thought that the trio of top-shelf items that Standing Stone Games released with this year's Ill Omens event sounded way too good,...
Istaria plans new content, quest classifications, and revamps for races and armor in 2021
It's been about a million years since we last checked in on Istaria, fka Horizons, but that changes today thanks to the Virtrium team's...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia’s bungle, Axie Infinity’s $1.5M in-game property
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Stadia: The Google mess just gets thicker, as apparently, developers on Stadia's internal...
Why I Play: Final Fantasy XIV’s memorable Shadowbringer relic weapon grind
I have a love-hate relationship with Final Fantasy XIV. I actively fought against giving the game MMO of the year for 2020, and I hold the...
Whatever happened to Legends of Aria?
The last time Legends of Aria studio Citadel made a formal announcement, it was two months ago, and it was an apology, as the...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs to get you out of your gaming rut
We have all been there. You've been gaming in your standard comfort MMOs when one day you hit that wall of burnout. You feel...
The Daily Grind: What non-combat, non-crafting system do you enjoy in MMOs?
There's always a lot of stuff to do in MMOs, but most all of it involves punching, slicing, or blasting into oblivion. That's not...
Lord of the Rings Online informal player survey highlights the least and most popular classes
If you've ever wondered which class is the most popular in Lord of the Rings Online, Squirle over at LOTRO Players has your back....
First impressions: Valheim early access is already one of the best co-op sandboxes in recent memory
Straight away, I'm going to admit that my favorable impressions of Valheim are wholly informed by the fact that I have the good fortune...
Blizzard is collecting BlizzConline Q&A questions for WoW, Diablo, and Hearthstone
BlizzCon is gonna be a little bit different this year. Yes, it's called BlizzConline, which is silly. Yes, it's in February, and that's weird....
The Daily Grind: What’s your absolute favorite dungeon in an MMORPG?
A while back, I asked our readers about the most boring dungeons in MMOs. It's The Oculus, by the way. That's the only right...
Player-run Open Perpetuum builds its first ‘truly customized island and PvE experience’
If we are learning anything from observing what's happened to Perpetuum after the devs handed off the project to the community, it's that sometimes...
The Daily Grind: What MMORPG would’ve performed better had it launched in a different year?
I was chit-chatting with longtime MOP reader Bruno the other day when we starting yawing about RIFT and EverQuest II and which one was...
One Shots: Outer space needs an attitude readjustment
In retrospect, outer space was asking for it. It was giving all of us a cold shoulder, being very distant, and lording its size...
Global Chat: Does permadeath mode in MMOs have merit?
Whenever you're stuck for an MMO topic to talk about on a blog, you can never go wrong with chewing on the concept of...
WRUP: cmon five more minutes edition
cmon five more minutes. gimme five more minutes. just gimme five minutes. just need five minutes. give me five minutes. only five minutes. demanding...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO characters of yours do you truly miss?
If MMO characters had opinions and feelings of their own, they probably feel very much let down by my decisions over the years. I've...
Whatever happened to Absolver?
Remember Absolver, the martial arts multiplayer title from developer Sloclap and publisher Devolver Digital? There hasn't been much news out of the game beyond...
An Ashes of Creation player built a card game based on the MMO for the whole community
File this one under "extremely awesome things MMO players did": One Ashes of Creation player has created an entire card game based on the...
