The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG features the most ‘hostile design’?
Last week, the Extra Credits crew did a feature on hostile architecture aka unpleasant design - a way of papering over a problem in...
World of Warcraft’s new communities system aims to bring players together in Battle for Azeroth
Among the various features and additions coming with World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth this summer, communities has gotten buried in all of the...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s next patch reveals our future story
The next patch for Final Fantasy XIV is something we should all watch closely. Because it's going to tell us plenty about where we're...
EVE Fanfest 2018: CCP Falcon on EVE’s community team layoffs and having Hilmar as a CEO
It's safe to say that it's been a rough year for CCP Games, with the company pulling out of VR game development and laying...
Final Fantasy XIV invites the community to design physical DPS gear
Thus far, Final Fantasy XIV has run three gear design competitions for the community, inviting players to design gear for tanks, healers, and magical...
RIFT Prime temporarily disables its Trove of Mounts with fake inventory alarms
Can we agree that MMO players, collectively, get very excited about having new mounts? It seems like a statement that's almost a tautology at...
The Daily Grind: How much MMO game info should be hidden from the players?
A blog post on The Psychology of Video Games blog a few weeks ago seems relevant to our interests: It explores the "pleasure paradox," which...
Citadel: Forged With Fire lets you bring your tamed creatures with you through fast travel
Fast travel is important with Citadel: Forged With Fire, but it had an obnoxious and somewhat weird little quirk: Hopping through a portal wouldn't...
One Shots: Tour guides
It turns out that MMORPG players really don't need much prompting to go out and take a bazillion screenshots of their favorite in-game zones,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO does dinosaurs the best?
Dinosaurs are one of those wells that seem to show up in a lot of MMOs. World of Warcraft? Yes, there are whole zones...
EVE Online gives love to planetary interaction, looks back at an all-female pirate gang
Creating and maintaining planetary colonies in EVE Online isn't exactly new, as the system dates back to 2010. But the developers have deemed it...
WRUP: I overslept and my office is filled with firewood edition
Ah, Saturday, you noble day when I basically forget about time. Nothing I have to do today. Nothing much, anyway. I should check out...
The Daily Grind: What was the most disappointing MMO expansion of all time?
Best and worst, top and bottom: It's fun to discuss video game in absolute extremes (at times). And I'll bet that a lot of...
Betawatch: Defiance 2050’s closed beta, ESO’s Summerset on the PTS (April 20, 2018)
Beta testing for Elder Scrolls Online's Summerset expansion - as well as the free update 18 that'll launch alongside it - began this week...
Choose My Adventure: And now, Ultima Online, sooner or later
Oh boy.
So, yes, I did actually play some Ultima Online. Or I tried to play some Ultima Online, at least. I'm not sure that...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth turns on Dark Iron Dwarves and Mag’har for character testing
The first batch of the second wave of allied races are available for testing now on World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth's alpha test....
Final Fantasy XIV releases its next patch site and its Live Letter digest
Players are crucial to the reconstruction of Doma in Final Fantasy XIV, so it's only right that the next leg of the game's main...
The Daily Grind: What keeps you logging into MMORPGs over a long period of time?
Earlier this month, Pantheon's community team tweeted out a question that keeps coming back to me: "What motivates you to play an MMORPG for...
Massively Overthinking: What we really mean when we talk about ‘difficulty’ in MMORPGs
Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...
OrbusVR adds in new pet breeding and gear combination
In the real world, walking up to someone and asking if you can put your dragons together will probably get you arrested. In OrbusVR,...
