Opinion

If you've been playing MMOs long enough, you've probably lived through at least one sunset of a beloved game world. In fact, I bet...

Practically every MMO on the market today has had to contend with botting and the range of issues that come with it, and EVE Online...

Does it matter how many people are playing your MMO? For some, yes, it does. It's at least of passing interest to others, especially...

My primary servers on World of Warcraft are easy to spot, because they both have a dozen characters on them. Then there are a...

One of the features that captivates and draws players to Project Gorgon is the quirky indie MMO's design of infusing the game with a...

There's a familiar situation to players of tabletop games wherein a sidequest becomes more important than the main quest, and you wind up taking...

At the end of every year, I always do a Daily Grind on the most expensive MMO to play at that exact moment, with...

Last week, a reader named Chris, who is writing a paper on the MMO industry and revivifying sunsetted games, dropped an intriguing question into...

Not so long ago, our editor-in-chief was talking about how World of Warcraft needs some form of multiclassing system. So let's talk about how...

A question I am asked quite a bit about free-to-play games is whether or not one needs to sub to really play. It is...

A friend of mine in Final Fantasy XI cheated at one point in a way no one was ever going to find out. He...

Forgettable ambient noise or entrancing space sounds? This is the debate that’s at the core of today’s episode, as the Battle Bards take on...

I remember my first time. Unlike many hunters, I didn't stalk her. In fact, she bumped into me. I was just strolling down the...

The other day I was listening to a podcast in which the host was making a case that Final Fantasy XIV was one of...

Justin and Bree discuss Valentine's Day and Lunar New Year in MMOs, Guild Wars 2's latest patch, Camelot Unchained's beta date, WoW's Battle for Azeroth alpha, Closers' launch, Black Desert's unification, and Final Fantasy XIV's population, with mailbag questions on multiple accounts (spoilers: Bree talks about SWG for like three hours) and variety in period MMOs.

One of the advantages to computer RPGs, I've always thought, is that you don't need a friend who you can alternately sucker or bribe...

The Pantheon community is discussing a really interesting question about the two-hour gamer this week: "How much do you expect to get done within...

About a month back, I got a comment in this column with an absolutely spectacular question. We've got two cosmetic systems that basically only...

Long ago in classic Guild Wars, I used to be fond of buying runs - probably the earliest was the Beacon's Perch to Droknar's...

There was a time when it seemed like the downloadable client was going to be an inevitable casualty of the march of technology. Games...