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Star Wars Galaxies Legends celebrates 40 years of Empire Strikes Back with new PvE and PvP content
It's patch week over in the Star Wars Galaxies rogue server known as SWG Legends, and if you're a PvP player or endgame PvE...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Ayumi Namae explains why newer glamour outfits look more modern
As time has moved forward, Final Fantasy XIV has produced a lot of new cosmetic outfits for players to dress up in... and they've gotten...
Vague Patch Notes: What causes the preponderance of disconnected MMO endgames?
Yesterday, I wrote a whole column about how WildStar had some really great stuff in it. I did not mention its endgame at all....
The Swtorista Armor Site is here to help Star Wars: The Old Republic players chase their fashion dragons
Raids? Dungeons? Gear score? None of these are true high-level goals. Any real MMO player knows that fashion is the real endgame, and Star...
Perfect Ten: The top 10 things we loved about WildStar
WildStar was a really neat game that was run by people who had no idea what was good about it. I'd apologize for that...
Fallout 76 players come together to aid an in-game doctor with real-life medical needs
Members of the Fallout 76 PS4 community are likely familiar with Brent “CJ Martin” Fairchild, a person who roleplays as an in-game doctor. Dr....
Half a million people played Albion Online in April, so its studio is hiring again
Blizzard is far from the only company making bank thanks to millions of gamers stuck at home sheltering from the pandemic right now. Sandbox...
The Daily Grind: Is there a specific point in an MMO’s development when you know it’s doomed?
I was tabbing back through one of my favorite Old Massively columns when I bumped into this quote and had to go look up...
PSA: Guild Wars 2 puts Path of Fire on sale, grants free cape, living story episodes, and XP boost
If you've been sitting around during quarantine wishing ArenaNet would put Guild Wars 2 on sale so you could jump in or pick up...
Global Chat: The problem with being bad in MMOs
Have you ever felt weirdly reluctant to go the full "dark side" in a video game that offers morality meters? MMO blogger Yeebo Fernbottom...
Bungie confirms a sharp rise in Destiny 2 cheating, explains what it’s doing to mitigate it
While this week's update from Destiny 2 has plenty of things for fans to read over, one of the bigger topics is about cheaters....
Desert Oasis: How I’m progressing through Black Desert without spending a dime
I've been playing Black Desert for quite a while, and in that time I've made a bit of cash and built up a stable...
World of Warcraft previews Shadowlands’ Torghast while WoW Classic goes into Phase 4
Will Blizzard ever crack the code of engaging and replayable World of Warcraft endgame content that doesn't go stale for a long time? It's...
Not So Massively: Comparing online ARPGs, from Wolcen and Diablo to Grim Dawn and Path of Exile
A while back in the Not So Massively column, I did a piece comparing the pros and cons of some of the biggest names...
LOTRO Legendarium: Breaking down LOTRO’s 2020 producer letter
It may be a month or two overdue, but the producer's letter for Lord of the Rings Online finally arrived this week. While we...
Desert Oasis: A guide to getting started with Black Desert’s lifeskill system
For pretty much all of my MMO-gaming career, I avoided anything involving crafting, gathering, and cooking. If the problem can't be solved with a...
Albion Online wants to boost players’ ‘incentives for backstabbing and going to war’
Over the last few months, Albion Online's Sandbox Interactive has continued its push to rebalance the endgame meta - specifically, the power and potency...
Wisdom of Nym: Does Final Fantasy XIV need new jobs?
We're all still basically expecting an expansion announcement for Final Fantasy XIV in November. I'll talk about the weirdness of the world right now...
LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s Hytbold experiment
The landscape of any long-running MMORPG is bound to be littered with various developer experiments that were tried and later abandoned. Lord of the...
Into the Super-verse: Getting started with Champions Online in 2020
The sharp rise and fall of Champions Online back in 2009 resulted in a game that's made for an easy target of jokes ever...