Opinion

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the worst general chat channel?

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Yes, yes, I know all of the jokes, World of Warcraft general chat is vile enough to be used as a biotoxin and all of...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most embarrassing thing you ever said in MMO chat?

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It's one of my favorite things when someone else does it, but it's so cringy when I do. It's when you drop a big...

LOTRO Legendarium: Analyzing the 2021 LOTRO producer letter

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Despite the title of the "February 2021" producer's letter, Standing Stone Games' official annual roadmap was welcomed when it arrived last week. In March....

The Daily Grind: Do you wish Guild Wars 2 had proper player housing?

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A few weeks back, in response to a dumb joke I made about Guild Wars 2's endless parade of cash-shop chairs, MOP's Justin quipped,...

Massively Overthinking: Picking the ‘wrong’ MMORPG class

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Last month, the MMORPG subreddit slept on a good thread about picking classes in MMOs. Let's wake this sucker up. "Am I the only...

Desert Oasis: A brief history of Kakao Games, Black Desert’s former PC publisher

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It's been a busy couple of months for Pearl Abyss and Kakao games. While Black Desert players knew about Pearl Abyss taking up self publishing...
Point.

Vague Patch Notes: The sneering elitism of the MMO term ‘welfare epics’

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A few weeks ago, I saw an MMO player unironically complaining about "welfare epics" here in 2021. This is basically the equivalent of saying,...
The stuff that you have, does someone have a claim on it?

The Daily Grind: What’s the oldest MMO change or update you’re still a little angry about?

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I still find Final Fantasy XI's old vague patch notes so annoying ("The potency of certain actions has been adjusted") that I named an entire...

Leaderboard: Are you hyped for WoW Burning Crusade Classic?

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I don't think I've ever seen people fight over the details of a classic server as hard as they do for WoW Classic. Dipping...

Not So Massively: Outriders’ demo teases a decent but unremarkable looter-shooter

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Outriders, the new co-op shooter from publisher Square Enix, is not a game I've followed super closely, but with Anthem consigned to eternal purgatory,...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: Ten things that killed me in Final Fantasy XI

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In many ways, Final Fantasy XI was a designed copy of EverQuest. It did, however, remove a lot of the elements of that game in particular....
These cores require additional punks.

The Daily Grind: Where’s the love for MMO Engineers?

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If you announce that your MMO is going to have an Engineer class of some kind, then congratulation: I'm going to play it. In...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 312: Written in the stars

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Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online Flames of Ambition and Update 29, WoW Classic, Daybreak's Aliens Fireteam, and City of Heroes, with listener mails and recordings on MMOs that are more fun to play than watch, a 2010 time capsule, Blizzard's Mac thing, and out-of-touch pockets of MMO fans.

Choose My Adventure: Fizzle frustration, boss beatdowns, and slowly forming strategies in Wizard101

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Remember last week how I wrote about being surprised at the depth of Wizard101’s combat? This week I learned that the game’s combat can...

Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s ‘Balance’ chapter, launching today

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Another month, another round of Dragon Response Missions. Balance is part three of four chapters in Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga, and things are...

Casually Classic: How Burning Crusade revolutionized WoW questing

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While it's been a blast stepping back into an era where I can re-experience World of Warcraft as it once was, playing WoW Classic...

The Daily Grind: What’s your biggest collection in an MMORPG?

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I am not what I would called a "collector." In MMOs or really anywhere else. Or I guess I should be more specific and...
Teamwork.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s forced grouping serves an important purpose

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It's not exactly a secret, but just in case you didn't know this, Final Fantasy XIV has dungeons that are absolutely necessary to progress...
Ptang.

Fight or Kite: Crowfall’s Transformation added necessary polish to bring us closer to launch

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The most recent patch to Crowfall brought a whole slew of improvements and enhancements to the game. Every update we’ve seen in the past...
We still care.

The Daily Grind: Do you miss free return events in MMORPGs?

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Eliot was writing a piece about Final Fantasy XI's return home event a week or two ago and I suddenly had a pang of...

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