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Perfect Ten: Great MMO April Fools’ Day pranks from back in the day

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There are two types of people on April 1st: those who are annoyed and indifferent to the tomfoolery going on all around them, and...
Even-handed.

Perfect Ten: The 10 types of MMO rotation

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Rotations! They're not just just for your tires any more; they're in your MMORPGs, determining what order you should press the shiny buttons on...

Perfect Ten: MMOs that earned a notorious reputation

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Nobody wants a bad reputation. I mean, you can't make everyone everywhere approve of you, but you also don't have to go out of...
Moisturized.

Into the Super-Verse: How to get started with Incarnates in City of Heroes

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It wasn't so long ago that I mentioned how pleased I was about City of Heroes matching my different intensity and goals after I...

LOTRO Legendarium: Middle-earth’s world integrity is an endangered species in MMOs

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Back in 2018, Steven Spielberg adapted the popular novel Ready Player One into a film. It seemed like a great pairing: The master director...
City again.

Perfect Ten: MMOs that experienced a surprising comeback

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It's hard to pass up a really good comeback story. We love it when a beloved something or someone is counted down and out......

LOTRO Legendarium: My 11 favorite zones in LOTRO

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This week I put my chin on my fists and thought super-hard about the following question: What column could I write that would be...
movies

Perfect Ten: MMOs with live-action media tie-ins

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Every so often I think to myself that a video game should get some kind of media adaptation before I come to my senses....

LOTRO Legendarium: 10 fashion tips to make your LOTRO character pop

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Forget raids or the epic books or even Bingo Boffin; we all know that the true endgame in Lord of the Rings Online is...
No. It's the children who are wrong.

Vague Patch Notes: You might be the reason you no longer love this MMO

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Despite its ubiquity in sitcoms throughout the '90s, I have never had a single relationship end with the other person saying, "It's not you,...

Well Fed: An exploration of the Final Fantasy XIV official cookbook

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Welcome back, my fellow gaming gourmands, to Well Fed, the column that answers the question: Are gaming and MMO cookbooks any good? And this...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO monsters we don’t feel bad killing over and over again

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While many MMORPG players would (and probably have) beat up on the fluffiest of lambs and the cutest of otters if a loot table...
Of all time.

LOTRO Legendarium: Untangling LOTRO’s complicated travel system

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Considering how absolutely huge Lord of the Rings Online's Middle-earth has become, I'd say finding efficient ways to traverse its landscape is paramount to...

Vague Patch Notes: Sort your own MMO community, guy

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One of the things I note is that every so often - not all the time, but every so often - something will just...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: MMOs where you can play as robots and cyborgs

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Robots are, let's face it, very important. You might say that's not true, and to that I say: When you get to write the...
With strong eye contact.

Wisdom of Nym: What people don’t really get about the Warrior of Light in Final Fantasy XIV

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Not so long ago, I saw a very foolish comment complaining about Final Fantasy XIV from someone who did not play or think about...
Still.

Into the Super-verse: How City of Heroes shows its flexibility with how I’ve changed

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When City of Heroes waved farewell in 2012, I had an army of alts who were, at most, in their mid-30s. And I loved...
I vant you to keel tunnel moose.

Vague Patch Notes: The day I deleted a character in anger in Final Fantasy XI

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Today, I'd like to tell you about how your characters in MMOs aren't real, and you know that, but I want you to think...

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with interesting Guinness World Records

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I never quite know how much stock to put in Guinness World Records. I guess it's somewhere between "for amusement value" and "stone cold...

LOTRO Legendarium: 10 ways LOTRO was vastly different at launch

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While I would argue that Lord of the Rings Online has grown in a remarkably cohesive way since its launch, what we have here...

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