Opinion

I knew from the website shown at the initial announcement that Pokemon Sword and Shield's first expansion, The Isle of Armor, would be more of...

While it's not "standing in front of your high school in your underpants and reciting a difficult Shakespeare passage" level of anxiety, there is...

OK, for today's topic, we're going to be limiting ourselves strictly to scifi MMORPGs (sorry fantasy, you'll have to settle for pretty much 95%...

Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, WoW Classic, Black Desert, Star Wars Squadrons, DC Universe Online, Torchlight III, and Anarchy Online, with adventures in RIFT, SWG Legends, and The Outer Worlds, and mailbag topics on LOTRO leveling, MUDs, and the next generation of MMO fans.

All right, EVE Online. I'm starting to get you. The mission was to continue with the career path NPCs, and after some more time in...

Thinking back to high school, I'm awash in memories of the many deep, meaningful relationships that spawned as a result of being forced to...

One of the interesting things about each given expansion for Final Fantasy XIV is that we always get new tricks along the way... sometimes...

I love me some ARPGs, but in any RPG your enjoyment will depend so much on finding the right class. A game that felt...

Back around when Elder Scrolls Online launched Greymoor, I saw an interesting thread on the official forums asking for new servers. For some MMOs,...

Hitch up your shorts, buckle your boots, and step into another deep forest of MMORPG music with the Battle Bards! As diverse as the...

With the increased speeds of modems and the move into 3-D space in the 1990s, some game designers thought it was a logical conclusion...

Yes, it's me talking about MMO music again. You can't shut me up about it. But instead of throwing the field wide open for...

All right, here we go. Normally this is the sort of thing that I wouldn't actually spend a whole week on because believe it...

A few weeks back, the Skyrim Grandma - aka Shirley Curry, who's been profiled in our own Massively Uplifting column more than once -...

A while back, the MOP writers were chatting about some of the trainwreck launches we've seen from MMO studios over the last few years. "I...

In the wake of Justin's recent column on whether or not MMO sequels are a good idea, MOP reader Bobfish had an interesting question...

Have developers and players grown so used to mechanics and number crunching that we've collectively lost something important along the way? That's the concern...

Once more, we begin this adventure in EVE Online with some self-owning. For an embarrassingly long amount of time, I was incapable of working...

When we think of "automation" in MMOs, usually our mind goes straight to what we see happening in mobile online games. Everything there seems...

Justin and Bree discuss New World, Torchlight III, EVE Online, Phantasy Star Online 2, Playable Worlds, ArcheAge, EverQuest, and EverQuest II, with adventures in RIFT, LOTRO, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on moderating chat toxicity and the impact of modding on games like Fallout 76.