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WoW Classic players manage to recreate the infamous Corrupted Blood event

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One of the most notable community-sparked events of vanilla World of Warcraft in 2005 came back again in 2024. This would be the Corrupted Blood...
SHORYUKEN

The Daily Grind: What present would you like from your main MMORPG next year?

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I got nearly everything I could have asked for from Final Fantasy XIV this past year, so that's pretty nifty. But it's not like...

The Daily Grind: Did you hit the level cap in any MMORPGs this year?

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As we reflect on the weird and often unpredictable journey through MMOs in 2024, it's always interesting to look back on one's accomplishments (or...

Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up Victory is Life and wrapping my head around a new ship in Star Trek Online

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Well, this final Choose My Adventure for this year has certainly been a journey. For a couple of reasons. First, I've gotten through the...

War Thunder nerds have once again posted classified hardware docs to argue for game vehicle balance

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Would it even be Christmas if the community management team of War Thunder didn't have to clean up another classified document leak from its...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offered the best PvE experience in 2024?

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I think I tried and failed to disambiguate PvE and PvM earlier this year - the terms are just too synonymous for modern gamers....
Dang hyenas.

Conan Exiles players were murdered nearly 10M times by werehyenas, according to Funcom’s 2024 stats

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Whenever you're playing Conan Exiles, the obvious response to someone shouting, "Werehyena!" is to point and then say, "There hyena!" It's a laugh riot....

Once Human’s new achievements are powered by cash shop currency – obviously, players aren’t happy

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News about what's next for survivalbox Once Human was pouring out of NetEase's Starry Studio last week to the point that a bit of...

The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMORPG trend of 2024?

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Layoffs. OK, that one's a gimmie - and it hurts a lot more than MMORPGs. So let me pitch another one: A bunch of MMOs either...

The Stream Team: Soaking up the Christmas cheer in Final Fantasy XIV’s Starlight celebration

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It's that time of year again for MOP's Chris and his Eorzea Sunday crew. It's the Starlight holiday season in Final Fantasy XIV and...

One Shots: Striding boldly through fields of sunflowers

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With the chill of winter and color leeching out of nature during this month, it's certainly nice to be able to visit warmer seasons...
But WHY does she only have a bra.

The Daily Grind: How much thought do you put into your characters in MMOs?

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Not every MMO has a roleplaying scene. Heck, some of them make it difficult to impossible to even imagine roleplaying within them. In those...
HaSOMETHINGken!

WRUP: Apparently these are the rules of the card game Mao edition

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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about what we're getting (or hoping to get) for Christmas and related holidays.

The Daily Grind: Do you enjoy wearing winter outfits in MMOs during the holidays?

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With winter setting in and Christmas right around the corner, there's no better time in my opinion to be wrapping up your virtual avatar...

Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has kicked off the Wookiee Life Day festival

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If there's one event that Star Wars Galaxies always did in the most ridiculous way imaginable, it's... OK, actually, it's the Ewok Festival of...

The Stream Team: Cozy winter vibin’ in the Holiday Homestead of Palia

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It's cold. It's winter. It's almost time for the holidays proper. That's got MOP's Chris feeling some kind of way for this afternoon's stream,...

Elite Dangerous begins its holiday event and talks space colonization as the Thargoid War ends

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There is a whole lot of curiosity about Elite: Dangerous' upcoming colonization feature (as one might expect), which means that Frontier Developments had plenty...
Get back.

WoW Factor: The pros and cons of stripping timer requirements from World of Warcraft’s Mythic+ runs

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So the other day, an interesting topic came up in our feeds: Apparently, at least if you go by the survey, World of Warcraft's...

There’s still no ETA for the return of Corepunk’s servers, but there are test shards up now

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We probably don't need to reiterate what dreadfully bad luck it is to have your early access MMORPG offline the whole week before Christmas,...
A salt.

PlanetSide 2 previews its upcoming Assault gameplay mode, arriving in 2025

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The new Assault mode for Planetside 2 is going to require different playstyles for both attackers and defenders, according to the developers' final missive...