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The Daily Grind: Does knowing how the MMO sausage is made ruin it for you?

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Ever have a day when a confluence of posts and quotes lead you to one big MMO-related question? This post is that question, and...

Massively Overthinking: On the doom of server-wide MMO communities

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This week's Massively Overthinking question comes from KS donor Morreion, who asks, Do you think that MMO server-wide communities will ever make a comeback? I suppose...

CCP taps Zendesk for EVE customer support

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CCP's latest dev blog address changes to EVE Online's customer support. More specifically, New Eden has a new customer support help center courtesy of...
Like a dragon, but, like... a danger dragon.

How Neverwinter designs the critters that wreck you

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Neverwinter has an advantage in terms of enemy design, since years of Dungeons & Dragons have given it huge amounts of material to work...
Still proud of this shot.

Perfect Ten: The 10 dev stages of every new MMO class

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Any game with classes adds new classes over time. It's almost axiomatic. I don't know why absolutely every game cannot be designed with the...

The Daily Grind: Have you been to an MMO fan event?

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CCP put EVE Online's Fanfest 2016 tickets on sale this week, and while I haven't played the sci-fi sandbox in some time, the annual...

World of Warcraft and RuneScape dare you to become a beach bunny

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What's up with all of the beach studio blogs lately? I guess we know where all of the devs' minds are at now that...

G.I.R.L. scholarship winners get H1Z1 internship

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Daybreak's eight-year-running Gamers in Real Life (G.I.R.L.) scholarship program is done evaluating applicants and ready to proclaim the winners. That's right, winners plural; this...

Leaderboard: What’s your favorite online action RPG?

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Online action RPGs aren't really MMOs per se, but Massively has been covering them for quite a while anyway. I've only played one of...

Ascent’s new president of the galaxy ruffles feathers, furthers roleplay

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Ascent's president of the galaxy election is in the books, and a player named Prolapser ran away with 77 percent of the popular vote....

Massively Opinionated: What’s the next big MMO buzzword?

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In this episode, Larry, Brendan, and Tina debate next-gen MMOs, unfinished games, and MMO buzzwords.
Screw you, trees.

MechWarrior Online talks map design and tree destruction in a new video

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Trees are awful. They are the actual worst. MechWarrior Online lets you stomp around in a war machine, but for too long it has...
Ominous? Does that have the same root?

Daybreak overrules EverQuest progression server vote

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Part of what keeps the community engaged with progression servers like the most recent EverQuest pairing of Ragefire and Lockjaw is the idea that...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic has a resurgence of rakghouls

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Well, Star Wars: The Old Republic fans, we've got good news and bad news. The bad news is that another upswing in rakghoul activity...
Beneath.

The Secret World plots its third anniversary

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Can you believe that it's been three years since the release of The Secret World? It's even more surreal if you're a developer who...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is aging the best?

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While we demand and expect playing perfection from MMOs on launch day, that's a pretty hilarious stance to take when one looks at all...

Global Chat: Are fellowship maneuvers due for a comeback?

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Lord of the Rings Online hasn't been en vogue in MMO circles recently, but that doesn't mean that the game and its systems are...

Hyperspace Beacon: The SWTOR community divide over Knights of the Fallen Empire

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The past couple of weeks have been kind of strange for me. For five years, I've written about Star Wars :The Old Republic. I've...
To be fair, it's this way all over.

Trion shuffles community managers for ArcheAge and its secret project

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There's a new name on the community team for ArcheAge this week. Evan "Scapes" Berman has posted his farewell letter on the game's official forums, announcing his...

Sword and Bored: Troll bridge

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Mo's favorite antagonists, the underwear ninjas, demonstrate how to properly guard the exit from the PvP zone.