The Daily Grind: What’s the most egregious example of an MMO studio selling the solution to a problem?
So World of Warcraft has a problem with its server populations and how they're managed. This is not inherently designed. There was never an intent...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMO armor is completely ridiculous
This is probably a rant best saved for another day, but I want to know when it became completely acceptable not to demand that...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Everything you’ve missed if you haven’t played Guild Wars 2 since Path of Fire
There are a lot of great MMORPGs out there, and even if you enjoy Guild Wars 2, maybe it's not your main game. Maybe...
SeedInvest tells Shroud of the Avatar investors that Portalarium eluded its accountability efforts
Shroud of the Avatar has been a black mark on the MMORPG genre, Kickstarted MMOs, and genre founding father Richard Garriott for years, and...
Choose My Adventure: Exploring VR MMO Zenith with my hands
Zenith is a bit interesting in terms of being a game for exploration. On the one hand, there are methods and means where I...
Fight or Kite: Checking in with Crowfall after the acquisition
I’ve been playing all kinds of different games these days, many of them MMOs and many of them offline RPGs. I find myself kind...
Wisdom of Nym: Everything we learned from the February Final Fantasy XIV live letter
So what did we learn from the latest Final Fantasy XIV live letter? A lot, and most of it good, although some of it...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go halts PvP season ratings to reassess PvP, and that’s a good thing
Niantic recently revealed that Pokemon GO's Season 10 will be a bit different. For those of you who've forgotten, POGO PvP leagues work both off a ranking...
One Shots: Stepping back from the brink
A little while ago, I read how some visitors to the Grand Canyon have actually fallen in and perished because they would get a...
The Daily Grind: How much time do you spend on MMOs you don’t play?
I spend a lot of time talking, reading, and thinking about MMOs I do not play and do not want to play. Some of...
Into the Super-Verse: The joy of travel powers in superhero MMOs
I lived for level 14. Before level 14 was torture -- after was bliss.
I speak, of course, of City of Heroes "back in the...
Betawatch: Star Citizen is in love with a Jumptown girl
Jumptown Girl, she's been living in her alpha world,
It's gonna be revised more with tricks
Beyond the state it's in in 3.16 -
But that's a...
Vague Patch Notes: The metaverse doesn’t exist and isn’t a good idea either
You can't swing your arms at this point without hearing about "the metaverse" in some capacity, which is supposedly the reason why Facebook changed...
Hyperspace Beacon: A measured response to SWTOR’s Legacy of the Sith backlash
So Star Wars: The Old Republic fans are exploding on the internet about the franchise's latest expansion, Legacy of the Sith. As a player...
WoW Factor: Flights Rising, a speculative WoW expansion exercise
The Dragon Isles are quite the storied location in World of Warcraft in that it's easy to pull them out and dust them off whenever...
The Daily Grind: What’s a big MMO update everyone loved that you don’t?
So there's a big update for an MMO you like, or you liked in the past, or whatever. It's an update everyone thinks is...
The Game Archaeologist: Dark Eyes, a forgotten Japanese MMO from 1999
For a country that was the epicenter of video games (and, in many ways, still is), Japan never quite latched onto the MMORPG genre...
Perfect Ten: What I expect from MMO character cosmetics
There are many reasons to be deeply cynical about the sterile, lifeless morass that appears to be what people like Mark Zuckerberg see as...
Jukebox Heroes: Highlights from Lost Ark’s soundtrack
It's been a shameful while since I last delivered a Jukebox Heroes column to you, but what better occasion is there for a revival...
Why I Play: Examining why Lost Ark has me so hooked
Lost Ark has hooked me pretty deeply. I’m just over 30 levels and five or so days into the game right now, which sometimes...