Opinion

Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's split up, Tencent's Funcom bid, Torchlight Frontiers becoming a non-MMO, Temtem's early access, Rend's sunset, and DDO's new expansion, plus adventures in Neverwinter, STO, SWG, CoH, and Trove, and a mailbag discussion on changing MMO goals.

I had originally intended this piece to focus on playtime in Villagers & Heroes, but I didn't get in enough to do it...

The prologue and first episode of Guild Wars 2’s The Icebrood Saga did a lot of setting up, but weren't very satisfying. Episode...

Skyforge doesn't get nearly enough attention from the greater MMO-playing public in my estimation, but it popped back into my field of view...

We've got a little while before we get some solid answers about what's going on with Final Fantasy XIV's next major patch. At...

Remember back in February of last year when we learned that Funcom inked an exclusive deal for at least three games based on...

The best combat-related moments I’ve had in gaming were always surprising feats or wild encounters with other players. They weren’t always victories, but those...

Let's talk about tools you use when playing MMOs - other than your computer, console, phone, or whatever device you're playing on, of course! This...

Back in 2017, I bit the furry bullet and tackled the oddity that was Fucadia -- a very old MMORPG that just...

The difficulty of raids in World of Warcraft does not contribute one whit to my lack of desire to take part in raids in World...

Picking a race to play in Lord of the Rings Online isn't as consequence-free as you might encounter in other MMORPGs. For starters,...

Recently, I have found myself back in Neverwinter -- and quite enjoying myself! But what was really strange about this return is that...

Based on a wholly informal poll based on what's going around the community right now, I've compiled most of the agreed-upon positives for the...

PvE content is pretty much considered a given in MMORPGs: Even games without virtual combat usually pit the player against something environmental, whether it's...

You know what word I love to hear from MMORPG developers? Roadmap. If you're a millennial or older, you surely remember roadtrip life before...

Star Trek Online is a hard game to get into. When I first tried it early in my MMO career, I hated it...

While there is nothing wrong with dropping some money on a worthy game, many of us are looking to be as frugal as possible...

We've all had a couple of days to process the news that Daybreak Games is splitting most of itself into smaller sub-studios each...

On Tuesday, Daybreak Games announced what amounts to a form of slow death. Technically, sure, what it announced was that the company is...

Like many of you, I have had my fair share of pick-up group experiences in MMOs. These haven't been all great or all terrible...