Opinion

There's a thing we do a lot when we're talking about MMOs: We elide PvM and PvE. I suppose we do it with different...

Making your way through Lord of the Rings Online's Moria can be a unique experience -- for both good and bad reasons...

There are a lot of reasons people have to dislike NCsoft as a publisher. But oddly enough, if you're a fan of WildStar who has...

Let's be honest: We all are so egotistical and opinionated that we totally think we could design a better MMO than World of...

So c'mon, we all know what the big MMOs are right now, the ones that always come up in conversation. You know, the ones...

Those of you who remember this column from Massively-that-was are invited to take a shot, as was the running joke. Because it turned...

It’s been an interesting few weeks for gaming. We saw the announcement of Google’s game streaming service, Stadia, and then Apple’s subscribe-to-access game...

That feeling when something is so close yet misses the mark -- in a painful, how-on-earth-can-you-miss-that-giant-glowing-target way. The good news is that a Secret...

There's a meta discussion happening across games Twitter and elsewhere over the last week or so thanks to Sekiro: Shadows...

This week's Overthinking topic comes from longtime MOP reader and commenter Sally Bowls. It's about monetization, but it's a nuanced argument we don't...

Like everyone else working in or around the gaming industry, I read Kotaku's Jason Schreier's exposé on BioWare's development of Anthem. And like...

Just because Path of Exile is more than five years old doesn't mean the influx of new players has dwindled. In fact, for...

Well hello there, news on April 1st. I really have a tendency not to put much stock in anything revealed on April Fools' Day because...

They were called Failure Force, and they were the team that could never make a roll. My roommate, my wife, and myself were playing a...

My wife has long had an affection for Nagrand in World of Warcraft, and that makes sense to me. The gentle rolling terrain looks...

Given the volatility in today’s video game industry, it’s nice when an MMO is able to celebrate some longevity. Elder Scrolls Online has...

Does it ever slightly bother you that in these alternate fantasy and science fiction worlds that we explore there just so happens to have...

I don't think it can be overstated enough that the introductory experience of an MMO is absolutely crucial to pulling in and retaining a...

Justin and Bree discus MMO April Fools' Day, Jumpgate's sequel, Funcom's new Secret World project, EverQuest 3, Rend's abrupt launch, Star Citizen's ladies, and Neverwinter and DDO's expansion dates, with adventures in Guild Wars 2, DDO, and Blade & Soul, and a mailbag question on MMO emulators.

So now we've gotten the ending. And... gosh, sometimes these patches really do not merit splitting up, which is kind of the case for Final...