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Betawatch: Crowfall is heading on to beta land

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Oh, Crowfall, you've missed many a milestone for your planned test phases, but there's good news. The next major patch is apparently when the...
Do this differently.

WoW Factor: There is (not) much to do in World of Warcraft

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Here's a fun question for you: How do you count discrete activities in World of Warcraft? It's a more complex concept than you might...
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Vague Patch Notes: Guild Wars 2 might be the MMO that defined the last decade

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It's been about a week or so since we did our Overthinking on the best MMO of the decade, and I ultimately rattled off...
Time?

The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you always think is older or younger than it is?

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If you ask me what year Guild Wars 2 released, I'll think for a moment and then respond "2009" with a firm nod indicating...
movies

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020

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This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...
Obviously silly dances are already universal.

Wisdom of Nym: The little-explained lore bits in Final Fantasy XIV

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This column, in part, is in honor of a random party member who had never realized that the currency you're picking up in dungeons...
won't you let me live

The Daily Grind: What ‘dormant’ MMO do you think would benefit the most from some patches?

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There are live games, there are games that have shut down, there are games in maintenance mode... and then there are dormant MMOs. Dormant...
Sheewax.

Betawatch: Magic Legends is our Magic MMORPG except in how it’s not

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The first few days after the end of the year are a bad time for betas, but we came roaring back this week with Magic:...
A journey already taken.

WoW Factor: What Warcraft’s Old Gods were and how we lost it

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At one point, I loved the Old Gods of World of Warcraft. At this point, they disappoint me. And since we're not that far away from the game's next raid that brings them into center focus again, it seems like it's time to talk about them a little bit and why the dang things have not just become so endlessly boring but so misused.
No belts

Vague Patch Notes: No, MMO lore does not excuse design decisions

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There are a lot of problems with how people tend to use lore when it comes to MMOs. I've talked about one side of...
SO LONELY, SO LONELY, SO LONELY ♪

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the loneliest one to play?

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Social interactions are an important part of MMOs, but not every single MMO is hopping with players at all times. Sometimes you're alone, like...
There is actually quite a lot of this.

Wisdom of Nym: The lore deep cuts we know of in Final Fantasy XIV’s next patch

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There's lots of lore to unpack in Final Fantasy XIV. Seriously, I could write a lot about it because the game sets up lots of...
Plole ray.

Storyboard: The future of MMO roleplaying in the new decade

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Here we are in a brand-new decade! (If you feel the urge to pedantically correct this, you are wrong, it's a new decade, hush...
Oh, COME ON, what did that accomplish?

Vague Patch Notes: How to make your corner of the MMO space more pleasant

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It's 2020, people - let's do this. What do I mean by this? Unscrew our MMO living space. That one's a lot more fun...
Never over.

Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2019

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The down side of doing these columns at the end of the year every year is that there's a certain challenge of writing the...
This should be obvious.

Wisdom of Nym: Yes, Final Fantasy XIV’s Empire is just plain bad

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All right, let's be totally clear about something that... feels like it should already be obvious, but seems to not be. The Garlean Empire...
Convenient.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you think had the most fortunate 2019?

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To some extent, I think this was a lucky year for The Elder Scrolls Online. All it had to do this year was keep trucking...
Nothing else has worked.

WoW Factor: A quick glance back at 2019 for World of Warcraft

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So how did this year go for Blizzard Entertainment? Well... badly. You cannot have missed all of that. But it also went badly in...
Big empty.

Vague Patch Notes: My wrecked treasure in No Man’s Sky

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She was dubbed the Tender Claw C27, and I found her upside-down and half-buried in the ground beside the final beacon of the tutorial...
Guilty or innocent?

The Daily Grind: Do your MMOs go on break for the holidays?

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Congratulations to you because it's December 26th! You survived the main crush of the holiday, feel good about yourself. And assuming that you belong...

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