The Daily Grind: Do you let an MMO’s worst community elements determine your server selection?
Last week, on the heels of WoW Classic's latest stress test, I saw several discussions online about popular streamers and the game: Apparently, these...
Battle Bards Episode 145: Dark Age of Camelot
It’s Bard vs. Bard vs. Bard in this show, as the trio of MMO video game music lovers take sides in the Dark Age...
Jukebox Heroes: The best of Guild Wars 2’s Season 4 soundtrack
On May 14th, Guild Wars 2 fans were delivered a bittersweet message from the game's main composer, Maclaine Diemer. Diemer, who had been adding...
The Daily Grind: How long should a studio keep an MMO in maintenance mode?
It seems pretty clear to me now that Final Fantasy XI is going to keep running for a long time. I can't say for certain...
The Game Archaeologist: 1998’s Mankind
In the annals of the MMO genre, the massively multiplayer RTS has had perhaps the worst go of any variations on these online games....
Perfect Ten: 10 things I’d love to see added to City of Heroes in the rogue server era
When will the staff here stop talking about City of Heroes? Now that there's actually something to talk about regarding it, probably never. Look, you all...
The Daily Grind: Are you drawn to MMO shapeshifting classes?
When you think about it, one of the least-represented class archetypes in MMORPGs is shapeshifters. They only pop up here and there, such as...
Some Assembly Required: Will Starbase’s focus on minutiae be too much of a good thing?
Recently, Massively Overthinking explored chores in sandboxes and MMOs that can feel like jobs. I may not have answered that then, but boy am...
Lawful Neutral: Why Josh Hawley’s lockbox regulation Senate bill is dead-on-arrival
There's a special place in my heart for lootboxes and exploitative monetization, and that place is somewhere below the revulsion I feel for Martin...
WoW Factor: Why do people remember classic WoW being so much harder than it actually was?
As much as there's a moment of schadenfreude in the people compiling lists specifying that no, World of Warcraft: Classic being classic is not...
Tamriel Infinium: Keep playing Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr – the story gets better
Like many of you, I have been participating in the early access for Elsweyr for this last week. In fact, I played some of...
The Daily Grind: Which sunsetted MMO had the most wasted potential?
Since Bossa's announcement that it's sunsetting Worlds Adrift this summer without even even launching out of early access, there's been an odd reaction across...
Massively Overthinking: Tackling the ‘big four MMOs’ meme
Over the last couple of months, there's been a meme floating around the MMORPG subreddit. Someone will ask that the community recommend a game,...
Vague Patch Notes: Don’t take it personal, it just ain’t your (MMO) story
Here's an interesting fact of trivia for you for today: I am pretty much clocked out when it comes to news about H1Z1. The game...
Tamriel Infinium: Massively OP’s guide to The Elder Scrolls Online’s cash shop
Ah, the crown store: the third leg of the business model (along with buy-to-play and subscription) that’s powered The Elder Scrolls Online to one...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever felt schadenfreude from an MMO’s collapse?
Schadenfreude, a word many of us learned from The Simpsons, is a term meaning "shameful joy" that refers to feeling good about something you...
Not So Massively: First impressions of Conan Unconquered
I don't have any particular attachment to Conan the Barbarian as a franchise. I'm barely even familiar with it, in fact. But I do...
Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers tour: An interview with Naoki Yoshida
Let Naoki Yoshida sleep, people. The man was visibly exhausted when I interviewed him on May 21st, not at all helped by the fact...
Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers tour: The fairy-tale fight of Dohn Mheg
You all know by now that it's tradition for me to run my dungeon in these Final Fantasy XIV preview events as a new...
Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers tour: The tanks
Tanking has changed forever for Final Fantasy XIV in Shadowbringers. Gone are threat combos, gone are DPS stances, and gone is literally any excuse that tanks...