Opinion

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Fight or Kite: Should PvPers return for New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion?

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All the talk going on around me about New World and its first paid expansion has caught my attention. There's been office chat discussing...
He's got a goal, bez.

Wisdom of Nym: Examining Final Fantasy XIV’s Growing Light story beats

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Once again within this column, you will find spoilers for everything that occurred within Final Fantasy XIV's Growing Light patch, and I will not...

The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on New World’s ‘unbound’ character issue?

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When New World's Rise of the Angry Earth launched earlier this month, I was kind of baffled to realize that many returning players (including...
Ogre, without layers

The Daily Grind: How do you manage your alts in MMOs where you have several?

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When Bjork sang "Army of Me," she was not talking about having large arsenal of MMO characters. This was for several reasons, not the...

LOTRO Legendarium: What could a LOTRO challenge server look like?

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Lord of the Rings Online's legendary server experiments aren't done yet. Even though it's been a while since we've seen a new shard come...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite Funcom MMORPG?

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My nostalgia and I had a Moment the other day when I saw that Funcom was celebrating its 30th anniversary. Even though I freely...

Global Chat: What do I need to know about New World’s new expansion?

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Rise of the Angry Earth is making some big waves for New World this month, and it stands to reason that many people are flocking back to...
Hey, dude.

WoW Factor: No-selling BlizzCon

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On May 4th, 2019, tickets for BlizzCon 2019 went on sale. This was not in and of itself a surprise, with the event happening...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best horror content?

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A Friday the 13th doesn't come around in October very often, but it sure is a fun day to talk horror in MMOs. No,...

Massively Overthinking: What do you wish gamers knew about the games industry?

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I was surfing the comments of another gaming site's article earlier this week when I stumbled upon a scathing note about games industry QA...
Nope!

Vague Patch Notes: Why procedural generation doesn’t solve the content problems of MMOs

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Just yesterday, MOP's Justin ran down the various features that the long-canceled EverQuest Next promised before its demise - including the promise of all...
That elephant won't bedazzle itself.

The Daily Grind: What MMO mechanic are you genuinely a hypocrite about?

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No one really wants a fair fight. We all kind of want things to be unfair in our favor. That's just human nature. We...

Perfect Ten: The interesting features EverQuest Next promised before it was canceled

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After way, way too long, it looks like an EverQuest 3 may be in the works after all. It's been rumored for years, of...

The Daily Grind: Should global chat be restricted to discussion of just that MMO?

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The megaphone that is the world chat or global chat channel is a huge responsibility that few people seem to respect. Any player can...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 440: It’s fall MMO content, y’all

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Justin and Bree discuss New World's Rise of the Angry Earth, LOTRO's Corsairs of Umbar, expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, and Final Fantasy XIV's Growing Light, with a mailbag question on which studios could do justice to World of Warcraft.

Choose My Adventure: New World’s flail and void gauntlet go together like peanut butter and jelly

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Honestly, that headline really condenses my entire feelings about my time through New World for this week's adventure for Choose My Adventure. I suppose...
This looks... boring.

Lawful Neutral: Reverse engineering World of Warcraft’s subscriber numbers

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Do you know what time it is? It's almost quarterly financial report time! We probably won't see a full quarterly report from Activision-Blizzard as...

The Daily Grind: Do you make or borrow your MMO class builds?

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Let's talk about MMO character builds! This question works for almost every MMORPG, whether it has classes or skills or traits or anything in...
Fight!

Wisdom of Nym: Examining Final Fantasy XIV’s Growing Light group content (spoiler-free)

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So, here we are at the end of the Endwalker patch cycle for Final Fantasy XIV. That isn't entirely true, of course; we all...

Vitae Aeternum: Rise of the Angry Earth mounts and flail are the lift New World needed

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New World's first expansion is here, although if I'm being honest it feels more like the second expansion, considering the scale of the Brimstone...