The Daily Grind: Have you ever engaged in an MMO price war?
One of my friends in Final Fantasy XIV is engaged in a perpetual trade war with another player who tries to drive her out...
EverQuesting: An EverQuest 19th anniversary retrospective and party planner
There are MMOs that have been around a while, and then there is EverQuest. It's so old school it is old enough to be...
The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood pandemic
It began with an exploitable glitch. It exploded into an uncontained nightmare of death. It established a meme as strong as Leeroy Jenkins. It...
Betawatch: TERA does the beta warp again (March 16, 2017)
The first round of open beta testing for TERA on consoles went well. (According to the developers, at least.) What can be done to...
Choose My Adventure: Single-track shooting in Warframe
After my second week in, I have to admit that I'm kind of bothered by Warframe. Or, more accurately, the fact that I like...
WoW Factor: The Kul Tiran Druid ‘problem’ in World of Warcraft
One of the important things to note about World of Warcraft lore is that it's never been static. It will retcon itself six ways...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite group size for MMO grinding?
Grinding has existed as long as we've had MMOs. In the earliest days of my time in the genre, grinding was the game; I...
Hyperspace Beacon: Why SWTOR fans should be excited about Fogbank
This week, I'm going to depart a little from the usual insights into the world around Star Wars: The Old Republic and talk about...
Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen
Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...
Global Chat: Avoiding MMO activities
Have you ever noticed that you play it way too safe in your MMOs, especially when it comes to interacting (or not) with others? Aywren...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about Final Fantasy XIV’s Eureka
I think Naoki Yoshida has severely overestimated how much I wanted to chase after a Scorpion Harness again.
One of the things that I mentioned...
Guild Chat Special Edition: Interviewing Guild Wars 2 guild POOF
Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which we examine all things guild-related and solve problems faced by fellow members of the Massively...
Jukebox Heroes: World of Warcraft’s best music, part 4
We are getting right down to it in our look at the top 32 best World of Warcraft tracks. In today's column, we'll be...
One Shots: The Soviet Summoner
Undoubtedly, our world is poorer in this post-City of Heroes era for the lack of pun-inspired superhero names that used to run, fly, and...
The Daily Grind: What cosmetic rewards in online games don’t feel like rewards?
One of the most common rewards from loot crates in Overwatch were sprays. (It might have changed, but I doubt it.) You point your...
Betawatch: Wild West Online is getting a big revamp (March 9, 2018)
Remember Wild West Online? The game made a lot of noise through early testing, but it went fairly quiet. Turns out the reason for...
WoW Factor: Examining the composition of the Horde
Last week, we looked at the composition of the Alliance in World of Warcraft. This week, we're looking at the Horde. Makes sense, doesn't...
EverQuesting: Take a swig of EverQuest II’s Brewday festival with this guide
A festival dedicated to getting sloshed? No, this isn't college life -- it's EverQuest II's Brewday! Every year near St. Patrick's Day, a celebration...
Choose My Adventure: Already captured in Warframe
You know, I've been oddly impressed with the starting experience for the past couple of titles I've been playing in Choose My Adventure. Both...
The Daily Grind: Do you enjoy MMO datamining?
The latest expansion for World of Warcraft hasn't had a whole lot of official announcements made recently, but there's still a steady flow of...
