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The Daily Grind: How do you prefer to form parties in MMOs?
My first experience in an MMO was playing Final Fantasy XI, where as I have previously mentioned forming a party was downright necessary for...
The Daily Grind: How many people are you close to in your MMO of choice?
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...
Riot confirms Runeterra MMO’s group-centered design philosophy
While Riot Games' in-development Runeterra MMO still hasn't publicized anything that resembles gameplay, release plans, or even testing plans, what it does have is...
The Daily Grind: Are you an effective leader in MMOs?
In any sort of group content in an MMO, especially going in for the first time, someone needs to be a leader. Someone needs...
Book of Travels teases the groundwork of how cooperative play will work with Endeavours
It goes without saying that the point of Book of Travels is that you will not be grouping up with other players to descend...
The Soapbox: No, forced grouping in MMOs isn’t ‘social’
Thinking back to high school, I'm awash in memories of the many deep, meaningful relationships that spawned as a result of being forced to...
The Daily Grind: What MMOs are you reluctant to do group content in?
Some of our readers may believe that I am gregarious and outgoing. This is not true by any stretch of the imagination. Despite this,...
WoW Classic has an LFG addon for forming groups (but Blizzard’s going to block it)
If you're excited to take a trip back to the days of talent trees and expensive mounts but not to the days of shouting...
Anthem promises matchmaking for all of its content
We don't yet know all of the content that will be available for Anthem, as previews thus far have showed off open-world questing and the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the ideal length for MMO group content?
An average run of content in Final Fantasy XIV is going to take me about half an hour... usually. It's actually more fiddly than...
EVE Evolved: Making the most of EVE Online’s Onslaught expansion
EVE Online's Onslaught expansion goes live in just a few days on November 13th, and it looks like it has a little bit of...
Dauntless improves matchmaking across the board for its next patch
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match in Dauntless. You'll be better at doing so once the game's next patch comes around because the next...
The Daily Grind: How do you handle frustrations in MMO group content?
I do my best to be a patient party member in group content, but I am not perfect. When we get to the point...
Leaderboard: Must MMORPGs revolve around grouping to be MMORPGs?
It would be easy to dismiss Saga of Lucimia's pervasive "group-based or go home" ideas as mere rhetoric, but the reality is, there exists...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever run a ‘solo’ guild in an MMO?
When housing first arrived in Final Fantasy XIV, a lot of people wanted personal houses but couldn't yet get them. So they did the...
The Daily Grind: Do you take the lead in MMO groups?
There are many different sorts of leaders in group content. There are the people who are "leaders" in the sense that they set the...
EVE Evolved: Getting new players to stick with EVE Online
EVE Online has the odd distinction of being one of the most impenetrable MMOs on the market today and yet also one of the...
The Daily Grind: When have you felt loneliest in an MMO?
One of the things that no one discusses about MMOs is the way that they can be lonely. The presence of so many people...
Saga of Lucimia explains its notice board approach to finding a group
The latest entry on the development of Saga of Lucimia is all about group finding tools, and quelle surprise, the developers don't like them....
Destiny 2’s players grumble over lack of social features; Bungie posts Curse of Osiris release date, trailer
The original Destiny featured such robust social features as poorly managed chat options and a total dearth of social features to help people form...
