Opinion

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Leaderboard: Will you be giving Guild Wars 2 another chance?

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This week's Guild Wars 2 update has been widely welcomed by both current and past players for its broad-sweeping quality-of-life adjustments (and rollbacks) for...

The Daily Grind: What are your favorite MMO dungeons?

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If a theme has emerged in my 2016 gaming habits so far, it has to be my renewed love of running dungeons in MMORPGs....

Perfect Ten: What I loved about Dungeons and Dragons Online

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Dungeons and Dragons Online was a very strange game at first glance. Ten years ago, I ventured into Stormreach with no more motivation than a longstanding...

The Daily Grind: Are we ever going to see a WoW-killer-killer?

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On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I tried to answer a question from a listener named Kenny, who proposed that we consider...

Massively Overthinking: The ‘next’ EverQuest

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This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us from Patreon donor Roger, who fully admits he still has EverQuest Next on the brain. "Since we won't...

EverQuesting: Daybreak is on the right side of the MMORPG legacy server debate

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WoW is stupid. Yes, I said it. World of Warcraft is dumb. More accurately, I should say Blizzard is stupid. The reason? Its stance...
Exploitation.

The Daily Grind: Do you blame developers or players for rampant exploits in MMOs?

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As long as I can remember, there has been a back-and-forth between players and developers on the subject of game exploits. I remember back...

Jukebox Heroes: Six cover songs of popular MMO tunes

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There's a dedicated subcommunity of video game music afficionados out there that love these soundtracks so much that they devote considerable effort to producing...

Hyperspace Beacon: Why SWTOR gamers are so stoked for the return of Vette

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The first two chapters of Knights of the Fallen Empire after the break kind of left the Star Wars: The Old Republic fanbase feeling...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMORPG ‘Oh crap!’ skill?

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We've all been there: You saunter into a combat situation, feeling all elite and cocky, and before you know it, you're in over your...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 61: Update-o-rama!

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW Legion, Ascent, Guild Wars 2, Star Trek Online, RIFT, and LOTRO, plus mailbag questions on The Secret World and WoW killers.

Flameseeker Chronicles: Everything you need to know about Guild Wars 2’s April 2016 update

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Today is the day, people: I'm hoping you're all willing and able to log in and follow along with the Q2 update patch notes...
Who's dark now?

The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG class type you can’t stand playing?

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For me, it's rogues. Ug. It's bizarre because I adore rogues, thieves, and especially stealth archers in single-player roleplaying games. There's never been an Elder...
The future is dragons, as is the present.

Wisdom of Nym: What we should (and shouldn’t) expect from Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion

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We all know that this year's Fanfest is going to include an announcement of a new Final Fantasy XIV expansion. "Know" might be too...
Elder Scrolls

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO you’re not playing?

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Every Saturday morning in WRUP, we ask you what MMO you're playing. What we don't ask is what games you aren't playing in WRUP....
FEEL THE NOISE

The Daily Grind: What’s the most satisfying level up you’ve ever experienced in an MMO?

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As much as I've been enjoying my time in Final Fantasy XI and seeing stuff that was previously inaccessible, one of the big things...

Leaderboard: What was World of Warcraft’s best era or expansion?

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With vanilla World of Warcraft on the brain so much lately, I thought it would be fun to take stock of just what people...

Massively OP’s guide to the Project Gorgon starter island

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If you get past its (hopefully improving) looks and to the substance of the long-in-development Project Gorgon, you'll find that this game is a...

The Daily Grind: What are your current MMO goals?

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I've noticed that several of my friends have taken to drawing up monthly goals for their MMO sessions, an activity that I've been doing...

Betawatch: A perilous siege hits Crowfall (April 15, 2016)

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Players of Crowfall are in quite a lot of peril with the arrival of the Siege Perilous testing phase. Or are they assaulting a...