Opinion

So... yeah, we're not getting our fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV in San Diego. You probably saw that by now. (And if you're wondering...

I like a lot of the stuff that Warframe does, but it still sparks anger in me when someone reminds me that the game is technically...

With the Heidel ball now a memory, there's much to look forward to in Black Desert Online. Along with a new class and a variety...

You know what's really fun? The build-up to an MMO's release, especially when you're really invested in that particular game. Some of my fondest...

This guest Soapbox was commissioned through MassivelyOP's original Kickstarter back in 2015; the writer has chosen to remain anonymous. The opinions in guest Soapboxes...

Here's a topic that I'm torn on answering definitively because I think it changes from studio to studio when it comes to prioritizing the...

Justin, MJ, and Bree talk Black Lives Matter, Path of Exile, Elite Dangerous, FFXIV Fanfest, with adventures in ESO, WoW, Astroneer, LOTRO, Subnautica, SWG Legends, and mailbag topics on redesigning mages and what WoW did right.

I knew there was a reason I wasn't looking forward to this one. I've dipped my toes into this piranha pool before. I first played...

Retired MOP writer and all around epic human Mike Foster (yo Mike!) recently tweeted about his days working as a GM for World of...

When fellow Star Wars Galaxies Legends player, YouTuber, and friend of MOP Napyet asked me to join him for a podcast last week, I...

When Final Fantasy XIV launched Shadowbringers, every job had issues, but most of them were fairly minor. That was not universally the case, to...

When I played We Happy Few, one of the things that surprised me the most was how much I enjoyed the survival mechanics. I...

A couple of months ago, I read a post on the Nomadic Gamers, Eh! blog where Stargrace begins her post talking about multboxing in...

As you... may have heard, Phantasy Star Online 2's PC launch was all sorts of horrible, especially from an installation perspective. Belghast over at...

I've frequently said that Final Fantasy XI influenced a lot of my later feelings on MMOs, and this is also true of the crafting. For...

From movies to books to video games, sequels (and all related spin-offs) are a common sight when a property is sufficiently successful enough. Even...

Looking back over all of the characters that I've made in MMOs, I've probably spent half my time on low-level alts that never went...

Players were very excited when blue eye options were datamined out for Blood Elves in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, then less happy when it was...

So I've been playing SWG Legends about two years now, and yet I'm constantly learning things that are completely new to me. For example,...

Two ideas floated across my virtual desk in recent weeks, neither directly relating to MMORPGs, but they put the nugget of an idea in...