Year in Review – Nov 2017 (editorials) By Bree Royce - December 3, 2017 11:25 AM 0 Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs where you can live out your giant robot fantasies Hyperspace Beacon: Datamining suggests big changes for SWTOR’s companions Jukebox Heroes: Revelation Online’s soundtrack That EA and Nexon announcement is a FIFA-sized kick in the you-know-where The Game Archaeologist: Disney’s Toontown Online The Daily Grind: Will you be buying World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion? WoW Factor: Understanding World of Warcraft’s upcoming Heart of Azeroth system Guild Chat: Dealing with one bad egg in an MMO guild – without breaking the others The Daily Grind: Will you be playing World of Warcraft’s Classic servers? WoW Factor: World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth’s allied races, the knockoff factor, and future hopes EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s CCP Games is gambling with the livelihoods of employees WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth has a weak conflict for a strong focus Working As Intended: Guild Wars 2’s new mount licenses are still lockboxes, but they’re not the worst lockboxes EverQuesting: Reflecting on EverQuest II’s 13th year WoW Factor: What we still don’t know about World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth Massively Overthinking: The best and worst of BlizzCon 2017 Perfect Ten: A list of all the MMORPGs I supposedly hate WoW Factor: Is World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth fixing Legion’s many problems? Whatever happened to Global Agenda, The Realm Online, and Mabinogi? EVE Evolved: Three tricks to maximize your free-to-play EVE Online account Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking more of Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire story Perfect Ten: What to expect when you play World of Warcraft Classic Hyperspace Beacon: Assessing SWTOR one week after the big server merges The Survivalist: ARK Survival Evolved’s sequel tease is an insult to its fans Choose My Adventure: It’s all the same in Secret World Legends Massively Overthinking: Are modern games too cheap? LOTRO Legendarium: What the Amazon TV series means for Lord of the Rings Online MMO Mechanics: What can be learned from Guild Wars 2 Mountgate? Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about future Final Fantasy XIV jobs from weapons Jukebox Heroes: Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire’s soundtrack MassivelyOP’s 2017 gift guide for the Blizzard fanatic Perfect Ten: MMO things to be thankful about this year Hyperspace Beacon: What potential lockbox gambling laws could mean for SWTOR Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2017 All the best MMO sales of Black Friday 2017 EverChaosing: Counting my EverQuest II and Secret World Legends blessings MassivelyOP’s 2017 PC hardware gift guide The Soapbox: The long tail of game development isn’t an excuse for gouging LOTRO Legendarium: They’re taking the Hobbits to Erebor! EVE Evolved: Three top tips for staying safe from gankers in EVE Online Choose My Adventure: Challenging currency in Secret World Legends Wisdom of Nym: Classes, job, and the Armoury System in Final Fantasy XIV The Daily Grind: Did EA do gamers a big favor with its monetization overreach? Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire story ahead of season 4 Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017 The Soapbox: Inconvenience is not immersion in MMOs or anywhere else Slay-to-win: Massively OP’s hands-on with the Dauntless closed beta Hyperspace Beacon: First impressions of SWTOR’s Chiss flashpoint Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends and the mystery of the level-based curse EverQuesting: First impressions of EverQuest II’s Planes of Prophecy
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth’s allied races, the knockoff factor, and future hopes
Working As Intended: Guild Wars 2’s new mount licenses are still lockboxes, but they’re not the worst lockboxes