Tamriel Infinium: Getting the most out of your Elder Scrolls Online box and sub in 2019
One of the most confusing things about any game that chooses a hybrid business model is figuring out what you need to buy in...
The Daily Grind: What should Funcom do with Secret World?
Whenever I think about Funcom and Secret World, my blood pressure goes up. Here we have not just one of the most unique...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 226: On the cusp of FFXIV’s Shadowbringers
Eliot, Justin, and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers, Harry Potter Wizards Unite, WoW Rise of Azshara, SWTOR, Camelot Unchained, and Champions Online, with a mailbag question on XIV's endgame.
Choose My Adventure: Getting to the group stuff in TERA
My final week in TERA saw me hitting the ground running, looking to utilize whatever means I could to chow through the levels,...
Flameseeker Chronicles: A guide to Guild Wars 2’s revivified Dragon Bash
Dragon Bash is an event that first ran in Guild Wars 2 in 2013, less than a year after the game launched. It...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most satisfying ‘massively’ content?
A while back, I saw a great thread on the MMORPG subreddit about "massive team PvP." The writer was looking specifically for games...
Not So Massively: Blizzard cancelled a(nother) game, and I couldn’t be happier
Recently news broke that Blizzard had cancelled an unannounced game that had been in development for several years. This was followed closely...
Massively on the Go: First Impressions of Harry Potter Wizards Unite
I know I've given Niantic hell when it comes on iterating on its Ingress formula, especially in terms of Pokemon Go, but Harry Potter: Wizards...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers early access survival guide
It's the final countdown, people. Final Fantasy XIV will throw wide the gates early in the morning on Friday, and we'll all be...
The Daily Grind: Which problems is the MMO industry never gonna solve?
Earlier in June, Wilhelm of The Ancient Gaming Noob posted a provocative article about the three problems MMORPGs are never going to...
Global Chat: Daybreak is a zombie, walking
What can call an MMO blogger out of retirement? A game studio putting in below the bare minimum of effort in its updates seems...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest thing pushing you away from MMO progression content?
Drama between raid groups. Drama within a raid group. Time commitment. Maybe even mechanical difficulty. There are a lot of things that can push someone...
The Game Archaeologist: Sierra’s Fates of Twinion and Ruins of Cawdor
A few years ago I regaled you with the fascinating tale of one of the very first multiplayer graphical MUDs, the absurdly named
The Daily Grind: What are the most nostalgic MMO music tracks for you?
As one of the hosts of Battle Bards and the writer of this site's Jukebox Heroes column, I obviously hold great affection...
Betawatch: Astellia’s beta is next week and available for pre-loading
It's almost closed beta time for Astellia, with the testing starting on Tuesday. Fortunately, players who have access to the beta through...
WoW Factor: Blizzard’s schizophrenic view of levels
So it was just last week when I did a whole column asking whether Blizzard does, in fact, have a plan when it...
The Daily Grind: Do you care whether MMORPGs have seasons and diurnal cycles?
In a recent One Shots, MOP's Justin asked readers to offer up their screenshots of MMOs with diurnal cycles - that is, games...
Massively Overthinking: The worst MMO cash shop trickery
Last week, games psychologist Jamie Madigan tweeted an underrated comment about how psychological tricks used in restaurant menu design are also found in...
Warframe of Mind: The story of Space Mom and The Second Dream
When I first started playing Warframe, I definitely wasn't in it for the story. Was there story? Initially, no. There were only crumbs...
Into the Super-verse: A quick-and-dirty guide to picking the right City of Heroes archetype – Blueside edition
What's amazing about the unexpected City of Heroes revival (and does that ever feel good to type) isn't just that old players are eager to...
