Year in Review – January 2020 (editorials) By Bree Royce - October 7, 2020 3:26 PM 0 Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2019 Leaderboard: Are you onboard with the online gaming industry’s new take on sequels? Vague Patch Notes: How to make your corner of the MMO space more pleasant Desert Oasis: Fun things to do in Black Desert in 2020 Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2020 Storyboard: The future of MMO roleplaying in the new decade Into the Super-verse: What superhero MMOs offer that other games don’t Not So Massively: Lessons Torchlight Frontiers can take from its predecessors Wisdom of Nym: The lore deep cuts we know of in Final Fantasy XIV’s next patch Flameseeker Chronicles: Things to do when Guild Wars 2 feels stale Choose My Adventure: Black Desert Mobile is absolutely crammed with stuff Massively OP Podcast Episode 254: New year mysteries Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020 Tamriel Infinium: My favorite things in The Elder Scrolls Online Vague Patch Notes: No, MMO lore does not excuse design decisions Massively Overthinking: The best MMOs of the decade Leaderboard: What would you want to see out of a new Star Wars MMO? WoW Factor: What Warcraft’s Old Gods were and how we lost it The Game Archaeologist: That time when MTV made a virtual world Fight or Kite: Griefing! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Wisdom of Nym: The little-explained lore bits in Final Fantasy XIV Choose My Adventure: The juggling act of Black Desert Mobile’s many advancement systems The Survivalist: My top 20 survival game goals for 2020, part the first Massively OP Podcast Episode 255: Girls, elementals, and other things that ruin MMOs The Daily Grind: What are some genuinely creepy places in MMORPGs? Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020 Desert Oasis: First impressions of Black Desert’s new Guardian class Vague Patch Notes: Guild Wars 2 might be the MMO that defined the last decade The Survivalist: My top 20 survival game goals for 2020, part the second Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG bugs ever WoW Factor: There is (not) much to do in World of Warcraft The Game Archaeologist: Super-early versions of MMORPG websites EVE Evolved: Fight or Flight is a season for change in EVE Online Not So Massively: Magic: Legends isn’t at all what I expected – it’s better Wisdom of Nym: Gunblades across Final Fantasy XIV Lawful Neutral: Examining the ArcheAge class action lawsuit – and what it means for gamers Choose My Adventure: Villagers & Heroes on mobile feels like a true themepark MMO (for better or worse) Vague Patch Notes: Chronicle of a Daybreak death foretold Why I Play: Is Star Trek Online worth playing in 2020? Massively Overthinking: The one about MMORPG content roadmaps WoW Factor: Oh no, Visions of N’zoth is real bad LOTRO Legendarium: Rating the best active racials in Lord of the Rings Online Fight or Kite: MMO PvP needs to be memorable or it’s not worth the bother The Survivalist: So Funcom’s DUNE will be a survival game, not an MMO Wisdom of Nym: What’s with all the secrecy around Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.2? Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s Shadow in the Ice Choose My Adventure: Comparing the cash shops of Black Desert Mobile and Villagers & Heroes Massively OP Podcast Episode 257: Daybreakup Tamriel Infinium: The biggest surprises from Elder Scrolls Online’s Dark Heart of Skyrim reveal Perfect Ten: Tabletop RPGs that would make fun MMOs Desert Oasis: Hands-on with Black Desert’s new Guardian awakening WoW Factor: What if Shadowlands is also real bad? Massively Overthinking: The undeath of the MMORPG genre First impressions: Warcraft III Reforged is someone’s monkey’s paw wish MMO Cartographer: Exploring Villagers & Heroes, our indie MMO of the year EverQuesting: Building a story brought me back to EverQuest II Lawful Neutral: Examining DDoS attacks and their impact on MMOs
Choose My Adventure: Villagers & Heroes on mobile feels like a true themepark MMO (for better or worse)