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Perfect Ten: A small sampling of literary offerings from MMOs

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Salutations are in order once again for our most literate and eloquent readers of Massively Overpowered! I bid you welcome to our numerical column...
YOU KNEW IT WOULD COME BACK

Perfect Ten: 10 notable MMO developers that shut their doors

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When En Masse Entertainment announced that it would be closing its doors this fall, we here at Massively OP came to the realization that...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: What gamers need to understand about MMO mages

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So the first two times I tackled this type of topic for the Perfect Ten column here on Massively OP, I had the advantage...

Perfect Ten: 10 tools MMOs use to tell stories

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While some players like to rebel against the notion that MMORPGs are storytelling experiencies, that narrative is exactly why I show up to these...
Into the unknown.

Perfect Ten: Why do players keep playing MMOs they hate?

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Hating your recreation is an oddly common hobby for a lot of people. It's not universal, of course, but after any given new game...

Perfect Ten: 10 amazing hidden quests in World of Warcraft

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Finding quests in World of Warcraft is not exactly what you would call "difficult," as the game famously stuck giant floating exclamation marks over...
Never gonna get it, never gonna get it.

Perfect Ten: How to speak with your family members about playing MMOs

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The nice part about growing up with serious social awkwardness as "the weird one" in my family is that really, every strange fixation I...

Perfect Ten: 10 reasons WoW Classic is still fun in 2020

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WoW Classic just celebrated its first year of operation, and what a year it's been! Back in the summer of 2019, I was rediscovering...

Perfect Ten: 10 great tropical areas to visit in MMOs

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Probably a lot of us aren't getting that fantastic summer beach vacation that we had hoped to get this year. But instead of getting...
Oh great.

Perfect Ten: Ten things to do when you just want to chill out in an MMO

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Let's face it: Sometimes, playing MMORPGs -- as with any video game -- has the potential to stress us out. We might feel under...
Oh look.

Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs I was very wrong about

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Here's a not-actually-very-secret bit of honesty about the industry that I have been working in for about a decade now: I am not actually...

Perfect Ten: Ten reasons Fallout 76 is good, actually

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Here's the thing about criticism: It isn't mutually exclusive with appreciation. You can like something that you also criticize -- and your head won't...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: Classic alt challenges for MMOs

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When you start up your first character in a new MMO, it's all fresh and novel. But if you're the sort of tedious weirdo...

Perfect Ten: More time traveling adventures in MMOs

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Writers and geeks alike can't seem to get enough of time travel -- and neither can I! Back in 2017, I wrote a list of...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: World of Warcraft’s multicolored elf rainbow

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Remember how I managed to get an entire column out of all the different flavors of troll within World of Warcraft? Except I kind...

Perfect Ten: What makes me feel welcome when trying out your MMO

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While it's not "standing in front of your high school in your underpants and reciting a difficult Shakespeare passage" level of anxiety, there is...
Pay to lose.

Perfect Ten: The big book of MMO death mechanic rationales

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In the ancient Before Times (so, you know, two years ago), I wrote a column all about the different mechanics that hit you when...

Perfect Ten: The most fun pre-launch MMO runs

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You know what's really fun? The build-up to an MMO's release, especially when you're really invested in that particular game. Some of my fondest...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: An entirely accurate and unassailable history of pet classes in MMORPGs

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Pet classes! They're a very important part of MMORPGs, the opportunity to not just go into combat alone but to march in alongside a...

Perfect Ten: Unconventional MMORPG magic classes

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Earth. Fire. Air. Water. These elements are all well and good if you want to summon Captain Planet for some reason, but they make...

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