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The Daily Grind: What’s your most memorable MMO noob moment?

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I was basically still a kid when I first started playing MMOs, and my first, of course, was the wild west of the newly...

Sword and Bored: 10 rats

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Mo undertakes his first kill-ten-rats quest and boggles at the array of loot those tiny rats possess.

MMO Week in Review: April 5, 2015

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review! This...

One Shots: Row, row, row your boat

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When I'm perusing my One Shots mail folder seeking that special picture that will make the headlines, I'm not looking for anything in particular....
You have clearly been preparing for this day.

The Daily Grind: How long do you have your subscriptions set up for?

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I had not put my Final Fantasy XIV account on anything more extended than month-by-month billing for the longest time. Which is kind of...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: April 4, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we said goodbye (apparently) to Greed Monger. We also said hello to Pathfinder's early access head start and,...
We were the kings and queens of promise, we were the victims of ourselves. Maybe the children of a lesser god between Heaven and Hell.

WRUP: Twilight over Eorzea edition

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It's hard to make a storyline that leads perfectly into an expansion. There's always more that could be done, the challenge of making something...
No word on whether or not you can also sketch a bunch of stuff in your spiral-bound notebook after playing.

Betawatch: April 3, 2015

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Good news, ladies and gentlemen looking forward to Ghost in the Shell Online. Not only is the game nearing its first Korean closed beta...

The Daily Grind: Does FFA PvP reflect badly on players?

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Today's Daily Grind question comes from Luxxicon, a donor to our Kickstarter campaign. Luxxicon just wants to talk about open-world PvP. In fact, his...

Massively Overthinking: Crowd control in MMORPGs

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Today's Kickstarter-begotten Massively Overthinking question arrives from donor Ravenwynd, who writes, I love control type characters in mmos. City of Heroes' Mind Controller could lock down...
ArcheAge

The Daily Grind: What’s the last non-combat activity you did in an MMO?

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It's no secret that today's MMOs focus almost exclusively on combat. Oh sure, some of them have rudimentary crafting, trading, and housing minigames, but...

Ask Mo: Jobs in the MMO industry, jobs in MMOs

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Today, we're reintroducing our general MMO advice column, here named Ask Mo: the column where you ask Mo questions, and he... lets me answer them for...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 8

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Justin and Bree discuss Crowfall, Skyforge, LOTRO, Dungeon Fighter Online, Pillars of Eternity, EverQuest's progression server, and wardrobe systems in WildStar, RIFT, and SWTOR, with mailbag questions on the MMORTS genre and how F2P cheapens gameplay.

Sword and Bored: Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof!

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Realizing that open PvP servers are wretched hives of scum and villainy, Mo decides to reroll.
You look very cold, ma'am.

The Daily Grind: What stupid mistake do you keep making in an MMO?

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In a lot of games, the E key defaults to use/interact/whatever. Get near a thing, press E, you do what you need to do....

MMO Week in Review: March 29, 2015

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review! Better...

One Shots: Wedded bliss

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Have you ever gotten married? In game, I mean. Well, if you haven't screenshotted it, it didn't happen. Fortunately this Final Fantasy XIV couple...

The Daily Grind: Do MMORPGs need VR?

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Video game developers have been positively obsessing about virtual reality for the last few years, but barring an exception here and there, few MMOs seem...
I ride this on the stage.

WRUP: How to fry and eat your motorcycle edition

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There comes a time in every woman's life, as well as the lives of most men and the occasional CGI humanoid monster, when you...
If people had been this enthusiastic the first time around... nah, never mind. Too much speculation.

Betawatch: March 27, 2015

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If you had told me that one of the big bits of news this week would be the release of Dungeon Fighter Online into...

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