endgame
Indie MMO sandbox Fractured Online unveils its Endgame Changer patch coming February 21
Kickstarted sandbox Fractured has been teasing a big endgame overhaul for a few weeks now, setting the date for February 21st, and now the...
Into the Super-Verse: Early SOs pose a perplexing problem in City of Heroes Homecoming
Last week, I talked a bit about how to gear yourself up in City of Heroes. Just yesterday, Bree gave an example for how...
Massively Overthinking: Do you care more about MMO stats or looks?
This week's Massively Overthinking is fully inspired by the unicorn backpack meme, which Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss tweeted out last week with the caption "stats over looks any day." You know we have to talk about this.
Vague Patch Notes: Why we drift away from MMORPGs we still love
Why did I stop playing Star Trek Online? Was it because there was some change made to the game that made it no longer...
Black Desert PC launches new Yzrahid Highlands monster zone, new costume, and lifeskill QOL
Black Desert PC fans, prepare your endgame toons and your closets because Pearl Abyss has content for both this week.
"Seasoned adventurers will be pleased...
The Daily Grind: What are some of the prettiest high-level zones in MMOs?
Back in the day, it used to be common for the early game in MMO to be nothing but verdant forests, lush meadows, and...
Throne & Liberty KR will bolster endgame with coop dungeons, dungeon finder, and less ‘forced content’
NCsoft's Jong-ok Ahn is back on the official Throne & Liberty site with another producer's update this week, this time talking about the Resistance...
Skull and Bones previews its endgame takeovers, heists, bosses, and ship combat
If there's a genre of dev blog I like least, it's the one where studio staffers pretend to offer an unbiased blog post or...
Into the Super-Verse: Gearing up as a newcomer to City of Heroes Homecoming
I was originally going to spend this week opining on why the Incarnate system in City of Heroes didn't really work and why it...
Palworld sells 7M, nears 2M concurrent, and drops an undated roadmap for fixes and content
Palworld, a survivalbox everyone was sleeping on and got basically zero traction over the last two and a half years we've been covering it,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Digging into LOTRO’s 2024 roadmap, from U39 to the Baharbêl expansion
Oh boy -- it's roadmap time for Lord of the Rings Online! As we've been seeing over the past few years, Standing Stone Games...
Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs
During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...
Into the Super-Verse: What City of Heroes needs now is not more endgame content
One of the key discussion points about the City of Heroes revival revolves around what the perception of the game is going to be....
Lord of the Rings Online’s 2024 roadmap includes an expansion, new hobby, and kinship ‘refresh’
It's Lord of the Rings Online's turn at the roadmap podium as this 17-year-old MMORPG announced its 2024 plans today. While perhaps not as...
Fractured Online weathers downtime over a dupe exploit and a failing hard drive
If there's an MMO community that's more twitchy about hacks than Fractured Online, we haven't met it. Nervous attitudes are to be expected, too,...
Four Winds: Catching up with Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis
I believe it was Napoleon Bonaparte that once said "SEGA better release Phantasy Star Online 2 stateside or I'm going to conquer France." Unfortunately,...
Casually Classic: 12 quality-of-life improvements coming with Cataclysm Classic
I'm in a very strange place in relation to the upcoming Cataclysm Classic. I kind of didn't want this expansion to happen at all for...
Palworld details pet mechanics and critters, Craftopia shares its latest roadmap
It's a pair of Pocket Pair updates in this news story, with the developer continuing to crank out the pet-focused footage for its still-gestating...
Path of Exile 2 talks movement, microtransactions, builds, and more in new interview
The Path of Exile 2 playerbase got themselves a little treat earlier this week when game director Johnathan Rogers sat down for an interview...
WoW Factor: What World of Warcraft needs to accomplish in 2024
On October 12th, 2023, the YouTuber SuperEyepatchWolf put out a video running just over one hour nine minutes titled "The Simpsons Is Good Again."...
