Opinion

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Working as Intended: Sparking joy in MMOs

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On this week's podcast, I mentioned that I'd just finished off Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, something that superficially seems unrelated...
Bye.

Vague Patch Notes: What causes the preponderance of disconnected MMO endgames?

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Yesterday, I wrote a whole column about how WildStar had some really great stuff in it. I did not mention its endgame at all....
Vengeance.

The Daily Grind: What false MMO rumor did you totally buy into at one point?

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In Final Fantasy XI, all Goblin enemies have an ability called Bomb Toss. It hurts your entire party a fair amount when it hits,...

MMO Cartographer: Exploring Revelation Online’s Skyward World update

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Revelation Online, originally developed by NetEase and published in the west by My.games, recently launched its Skyward World update. It contained updates for players...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: The top 10 things we loved about WildStar

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WildStar was a really neat game that was run by people who had no idea what was good about it. I'd apologize for that...
Alive again!

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best Necromancer class?

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Do you like to play with dead things? Heck, who doesn't? It's one of the most well-adjusted activities that any person can do while...
Cool guys don't look at explosions.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 270: Words of Warcraft

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Justin and Bree discuss Age of Conan, Defiance, World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2, and COVID-19 delays, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, and Fallout 76, and mailbag topics on Blizzard and freeform character building.

Fight or Kite: Valorant’s place in an MMO player’s rotation

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The new hotness from Riot Games, developer of League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, delivers twitchy, intense FPS action in Valorant. The game has...

Choose My Adventure: The first steps as a Romulan in Star Trek Online

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In last week's column, I mentioned that the start of our Star Trek Online journey would not be done alone, and sure enough I've...
There was something beautiful and wonderful and it destroyed itself.

The Daily Grind: Is there a specific point in an MMO’s development when you know it’s doomed?

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I was tabbing back through one of my favorite Old Massively columns when I bumped into this quote and had to go look up...
Originals of the species.

Wisdom of Nym: The curious rebirth of Final Fantasy XIV’s old content

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So originally, this column was going to involve a fair amount of speculation regarding some ambiguous phrasings and translations of timing for the next...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO to play if you’re totally broke?

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A while back I saw an interesting thread on the Guild Wars 2 Reddit, in which the player was asking whether he was missing...

Global Chat: Suffering through Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box

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Guild Wars 2 fans have developed a cult following around the seasonal Super Adventure Box, but as much as some love it, others have...
KITTY! AGAIN!

The Daily Grind: How good are you at spacing out your MMO content consumption?

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I know people in Final Fantasy XIV who have already finished getting all of their Skysteel Tools fully upgraded. This is, in and of...

LOTRO Legendarium: Wells of Langflood, River-hobbits, and free questing

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With major content updates only coming to Lord of the Rings Online two or three times a year now, it's a big deal when...
Uh?

The Daily Grind: Do you play the MMO fashion wars?

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I care about how I look. Obviously not in a real life, because I've chosen to be a short, lumpy gnome of questionable heritage,...
Do this differently.

WoW Factor: Examining Shadowlands’ Warlock, Paladin, and Demon Hunter changes

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It's the penultimate column in this particular series! And that's good because if people who used to make World of Warcraft are going to...

The Soapbox: The sunsetted MMORPGs I miss the most

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I'm pining for the fjords. Not in the way that would assume I'm becoming some jaded and angry MMO fan; I'm never going to stop...
honsing around

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you let your own kids play?

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A while back, in the long long ago when we could still talk to humans in person, I was chatting with the mom of...

Massively Overthinking: Canaries in the MMO coal mine

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A few weeks back on the MOP Podcast, reader Danny posed us such a provocative question that we said right then we were going...

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