Opinion

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Tamriel Infinium: Five things you might have missed in the Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind reveal

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I really enjoyed watching the Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind announcement with all of our readers. The staff here saw your comments immediately as I...
Gallop polling! I slay me.

Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up in Lord of the Rings Online

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What is with me and ending this feature in slightly snowy pine-forested woodlands? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to happen twice...

The Daily Grind: Have any 2017 previews sucked you back into MMOs?

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One thing I look forward to at the start of every year is seeing all of the producer's letters, states of the game, and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 102: Sailing into the future

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Justin and Larry discuss LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, SWTOR, Star Trek Online, Asheron's Call, H1Z1, Black Desert, and Guild Wars 2, with a special Bree monologue about the new comment system.

Global Chat: Interior decorating in MMORPGs

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With Elder Scrolls Online's new housing system coming early next month and LOTRO testing out some much-needed housing improvements, homemaking seems to be a...
Where you at, ArenaNet?

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best music system?

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In Andrew's retrospective of Asheron's Call 2 last week, he mentioned that the game had a music system, something I'd long since forgotten, if...

Ten life lessons I learned from the Asheron’s Call series

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As Asheron's Call 1 & 2 are going offline shortly, I thought I might give it a final send-off with a list of things I...
VOID

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 3.5 in review, part 2

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I mentioned previously that I went through Final Fantasy XIV's most recent patch faster than I can recall going through a patch in recent...

Guild Chat: Dealing with anxiety and the pressures of MMORPG guilds

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Welcome along to another issue of Guild Chat, the column through which the Massively Overpowered community can come together to help readers in need...

The Game Archaeologist: Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds

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I confess that I have a particular fascination for MMOs that came into existence in the 1990s. It's not only the fact that I...
Enjoy the joy of the CARGO HOLD expansion

The Daily Grind: Which MMO expansion has the blandest setting?

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Expansions are not all created equally. World of Warcraft went from the surreal alien landscapes of Outland and the frozen tundra of Northrend to......

The Daily Grind: Have you ever used MMOs to live out fantasies from other IPs?

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One of my absolute favorite parts of City of Heroes was seeing the crazy mish-mash of intellectual properties that players brought to the game....
doot doot doot, this game's title

Betawatch: A city of City of Heroes successors (January 27, 2017)

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The loss of City of Heroes brought motivated fans together to rebuild it, or at least to create a spiritual successor to the game....

In appreciation for post-apoc Dereth: The life and times of Asheron’s Call 2

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On the left in the screenshot above is a windmill in the town of Cragstone in Asheron's Call. On the right is, well, the...
Local Panda Recalls When She Was Special.

WoW Factor: The state of professions in Legion

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The state of World of Warcraft's professions in Legion is a weird one because it's obvious how much work has gone into crafting for...

The Daily Grind: Will Turbine announce something big for Asheron’s Call next week?

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Asheron's Call is sunsetting next week -- that much we know. But beyond that, we don't know a whole lot about the rushed circumstances...

Massively Overthinking: Death and dying in MMORPGs

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In March of last year, MOP's Justin wrote a detailed guide to the most common death penalties in MMORPGs. Last September, Gamasutra pulled seven...

EverQuesting: Scoring our EverQuest franchise 2016 predictions

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January 14th, 2016. On that date, I said we'd get to look back in a year and see just how many of my EverQuesting...
hoooorse

Choose My Adventure: Nice things about Lord of the Rings Online

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The thing about the level of Lord of the Rings Online that I'm playing at is that they are not exactly replete with choices....
Item by item.

The Daily Grind: Do you read MMO patch notes?

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I read the patch notes. I've always read the patch notes. When I was first playing Final Fantasy XI and you had to deal...

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