Opinion

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Perfect Ten: Clever features that should be in more MMOs

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MMOs are built on the backs of many interlocking systems, some more crucial to the experience than others. While I have great appreciation for...

The Daily Grind: What would entice you back to WoW?

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While a number of our writers and many of our readers are fans of World of Warcraft, it's no secret that a lot of...

Massively Overthinking: The first VR MMO

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In this edition of Massively Overthinking, Kickstarter backer Yinta wants to talk about virtual reality. "When will we see the first VR MMO?" So let's tackle...

EverQuesting: (Almost) everything we know about EverQuest Next

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In a perfect world, we'd have the mana of EverQuest Next news raining down from the sky, enough to satiate our hunger for information...

World of Warcraft announces Legion expansion with Demon Hunter class, Broken Isles continent; beta this year

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The liveblog is after the cut. Here are the highlights! Blizzard has just announced World of Warcraft's next expansion: Legion. Blizzard's Tom Chilton says that...

Choose My Adventure: A whale of a time in FFXIV Heavensward’s Sea of Clouds

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Hello again everyone, and happy August. It's happy for me, anyway; this past weekend marked the first time in recent memory that I could...

Marvel Heroics: Fighting the inventory blues

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Diablo-type games balance on a see-saw of distribution and acquisition; the games explode with loot while giving you limited space to store all of...

The Daily Grind: What have you regretted doing in MMOs lately?

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I did a dumb thing. A week or so ago, I splurged with real-world cash to pick up the new Yavin stronghold in Star Wars:...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 24: WoW speculation

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW's next expansion, Trove, Project Gorgon, DDO, NCsoft's quarterly report, and Neverwinter, with mailbag questions on emotional investment and the state of the site.

Hyperspace Beacon: Ten SWTOR sites worth visiting

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As regular readers surely know, I really enjoy the Star Wars: The Old Republic community. And I don't mean the community team led by...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever run an event in an MMO?

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Long ago, I used to live for player-run MMO events. In old-school MMORPGs, people judged a guild's quality as much on what it did for...

Sword and Bored: Expansion

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An expansion released for Mo's game, and Amilya is excited to show him -- maybe too excited.
I always want screenshots I don't actually have, it seems.

Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on what comes next in Final Fantasy XIV

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Let me start by warning you fans of Final Fantasy XIV that this column may very well have spoilers, but that's all right because...

The Daily Grind: How long did you spend in Project Gorgon’s tutorial?

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I got sucked into Project Gorgon last night, and I spent over two hours wandering around the game's tutorial cave. There's a lot to...

MMO Mechanics: Brilliant MMO boss mechanics

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I love a good boss fight as much as the next MMO player, and I'm sure I'm not alone in favouring fights that really...
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The Daily Grind: What’s a minimum play session for you?

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You probably don't sit down to watch a movie when you have five minutes before you leave for a doctor's appointment, and you do...

Nexus Telegraph: Righting the S.S. WildStar

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This past week I got the opportunity to ask a few questions about WildStar's new "stat refactoring" patch that's coming this fall. There were...

The Daily Grind: Are MMO morality systems impossible to get right?

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I know it's an old hat at this point, but I'm still quite appreciative that Star Wars: The Old Republic made an effort to...

Leaderboard: What’s your favorite EverQuest II class?

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I'm back in EverQuest II and having a pretty good time with it. As per usual, though, I can't decide on a primary class...

EverQuest II’s prog server isn’t as fun as the real thing

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I've been playing the crap out of EverQuest II for the past week. Funnily enough, the vast majority of said playtime hasn't been on...