The Daily Grind: How important is player-generated content to you in MMOs?
When I look at the current crop of top MMORPGs, I'm dismayed to realize that not a single one of them has anything significant...
The Stream Team: Standing a Ghost of a Chance in Dungeons and Dragons Online
Does Massively OP's MJ stand a Ghost of a Chance in DDO? We'll see as she takes on a quest by that very...
Massively Overthinking: How to deal with cheater scum in MMORPGs
I'm sure it was a random coincidence, but last week two different Star Wars Galaxies emulators posted about steps they were taking against cheaters...
World of Warcraft caps off its Afterlives with a look at Revendreth
Despite the appearance, the Venthyr of Revendreth in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands do not really vant to dreenk your blud. They vant to make you a better person because you...
Final Fantasy XIV’s final anniversary story closes the book on the origin of the Crystal Exarch
Every year, Final Fantasy XIV has a quartet of anniversary stories to shed more light on the characters of the game's story. But this year,...
Crowfall says its new Shadowbane-inspired class design will create an ‘explosion’ of build possibilities
Yesterday, several members of the Crowfall dev team sat for an AMA with DownToQuest Twitch, and while the whole broadcast isn't up for non-subscribers...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is LOTRO getting greedy with its fall content update?
Boars. Beets. Battlestar Galactica. OK, let's talk about one of those things, at least in a roundabout way, because there's no escaping the fact...
Secret World Legends marks the autumn season with an Envoys of Avalon retread
This news will either be fun to hear or the dull, wooden thud of a nail hammering into a coffin if you're a Secret...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on the newly announced Final Fantasy XVI
So, uh... hey! Final Fantasy XVI! That's a thing we learned about yesterday, huh? I'm sure we're all shocked that Naoki Yoshida's very specific dismissal of...
Phantasy Star Online 2 announces Episode 5 launch date of September 30 and starts lead-up campaigns
The next episode's worth of content is coming soon to Phantasy Star Online 2 as Episode 5 has been confirmed for a release date...
Echo of Soul is sunsetting yet again, this time on Steam, and no it’s not giving refunds
We return now to the confusing story of Echo of Soul, which as we've previously chronicled has at least a million versions and has...
World of Warcraft hitches up PvP’s pants while WoW Classic throws a tournament
Eleventh hour adjustments are being made to World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' PvP scene in response to a whole lot of player concerns over the...
The Daily Grind: What common MMO developer reassurance doesn’t reassure you at all?
At one point, I was tossing an idea around for a Perfect Ten column about a Kickstarter drinking game. It didn't go anywhere, ultimately...
The Stream Team: In SWTOR, ‘gotta catch ’em all’ refers to droids
Massively OP's Larry and MJ are still out to learn the secrets of -- and sabotage -- The Shroud, but their real focus is...
EVE Online’s Depths of the Abyss is live as CCP updates policies and World War Bee 2 endures
EVE Online has lots going on this week, from patches to policies to drama. Let's dig in: First, this week's patch, Depths of the...
Old School RuneScape introduces more Poll 72 changes and tries to open the discussion on Revenant Caves
It's another week of updates for Old School RuneScape and another gaggle of included adjustments based on Poll 72's results. That all might sound...
TERA on console makes a wide swath of adjustments to awakened class skills and maps out the rest of 2020
Players of TERA on console that have an awakened class are going to want to pay attention to the latest update's patch notes because...
City of Heroes Homecoming emphasizes player-created content, bars ‘controversial political content’
City of Heroes' most popular rogue server, Homecoming, is a fount of player activity these days, and the dev team wants to make sure...
Whatever happened to the Final Fantasy XI mobile remake?
Do you remember ages ago, when Final Fantasy XI first announced that it was scaling back to a maintenance mode and a new mobile remake...
Torchlight III finally releases its ‘update for dummies’
After a couple of delays, Torchlight III's latest patch is finally here. It's an "update for dummies," as Echtra is calling it. Please don't...
