Year in Review – February 2022 (editorials) By Bree Royce - October 26, 2022 3:44 PM 0 Tamriel Infinium: Six takeaways from Elder Scrolls Online’s High Isle announcement Choose My Adventure: Returning to Project Gorgon was much harder than I expected WoW Factor: Pulling the trigger on cross-faction play (in the weakest way possible) Perfect Ten: Ten things you need to understand about MMO healers Not So Massively: Shadow of War plays fast and loose but hits the mark Massively Overthinking: How would you fix New World? The Daily Grind: Do you even want a survival game from Blizzard? Vague Patch Notes: MMOs taking inspiration from one another is not a bad thing LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online must extract itself from its currency quagmire Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on the next few bits of Final Fantasy XIV content Fight or Kite: Rocket League Sideswipe is the perfect mobile game Hands-on with Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons’ newly unveiled jade bots mastery Hands-on: Lost Ark is a solid MMO that falls just short of true greatness Choose My Adventure: Zenith opened me to new dimensions of MMO interactivity and weirdness Perfect Ten: Ten reasons your MMORPG creates a bad first impression Vague Patch Notes: Looking back on the MassivelyOP magic, seven years in Massively Overthinking: What else could Blizzard do to fix World of Warcraft? WoW Factor: Winds of Change, a speculative WoW expansion exercise Not So Massively: The Anacrusis is nowhere near ready for launch Wisdom of Nym: Gaming the system in Final Fantasy XIV Why I Play: Examining why Lost Ark has me so hooked Jukebox Heroes: Highlights from Lost Ark’s soundtrack Perfect Ten: What I expect from MMO character cosmetics The Game Archaeologist: Dark Eyes, a forgotten Japanese MMO from 1999 WoW Factor: Flights Rising, a speculative WoW expansion exercise Massively Overthinking: Lost Ark and its place in the MMORPG genre Hyperspace Beacon: A measured response to SWTOR’s Legacy of the Sith backlash Vague Patch Notes: The metaverse doesn’t exist and isn’t a good idea either Into the Super-Verse: The joy of travel powers in superhero MMOs Wisdom of Nym: Everything we learned from the February Final Fantasy XIV live letter Fight or Kite: Checking in with Crowfall after the acquisition Choose My Adventure: Exploring VR MMO Zenith with my hands Flameseeker Chronicles: Everything you’ve missed if you haven’t played Guild Wars 2 since Path of Fire Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMO armor is completely ridiculous Vague Patch Notes: Lore is not an excuse for bad MMO design decisions Massively Overthinking: Is free-to-play as bad as we thought it’d be a decade ago? LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring LOTRO Update 32’s Angle of Mitheithel WoW Factor: Shards of Azeroth, a speculative WoW expansion exercise From the Depths: Checking up on World of Warships’ community promises Not So Massively: Lost Ark is junk food gaming (in a good way) Flameseeker Chronicles: What to do first in Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on Final Fantasy XIV beyond the live letter’s scope
Flameseeker Chronicles: Everything you’ve missed if you haven’t played Guild Wars 2 since Path of Fire