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Every MMO has character classes. Every single one. You might rail against this by pointing out that there are several games out there with...

My original two characters in World of Warcraft are no longer around; one of them was deleted and the other is never to be...

I have long been a proponent of roleplaying in MMOs. I’ve often been the roleplayer’s spokesperson on different podcasts and new media broadcasts. I’ve...

It's no secret: TERA's Secrets & Shadows update arrives this month! And many players are eagerly anticipating diving in to experience these changes for...

The cross-class system in Final Fantasy XIV is not good. It functions, yes, but the mixing and matching of abilities from other classes is...

Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, the space in which I get together with the MOP commenters to help a reader in need...

The impact of Myst's launch in 1993 was akin to an atomic bomb going off in the PC gaming world. The leap forward in graphical...

On May 3rd, Chronicles of Elyria started its Kickstarter campaign. On May 4th, the developers were already hitting significant funding milestones. On May 6th,...

The past few weeks have been pretty well packed, both in a personal and in a professional sense, so it's easy to sort of...

With last week's release of GU100 in EverQuest II, an interesting conversation reared its head again -- a not necessarily flattering one for Daybreak. While...

"This is how the world ends," T S Eliot wrote in his famous poem, "not with a bang, but with a whimper." That might well...

The first WvW poll is about to close and the votes have been flying in during the last few days, driving home that Guild Wars...

I believe there is only one word to describe Chapter 13 for Knights of the Fallen Empire: cute. For the six chapters prior to...

In the history of MMORPGs, City of Heroes might well go down as having one of the most passionate communities in the genre. People didn't...

I don't know why, but I was kind of surprised by the sheer volume of discussion about Final Fantasy XIV patch 3.3 in the...

It's become almost a running joke in the comments of articles that EVE Online is a great game to read about but not nearly...

One of the neat aspects of the MMO blogosphere is how writers will often interact and collaborate with each other. Recently, four bloggers ganged...

Today, City of Heroes turns 12 years old. Except it doesn't; the game shut down three years ago, it never lived until it reached twelve,...

I've been thinking. (A dangerous pastime, I know!) And I think I have come up with a solution to a number of the things...

If any of you played the Dark Brotherhood quest in Skyrim, you likely thought very little of the Black Sacrament being performed by the...