Year in Review – January 2024 (editorials) By Bree Royce - October 26, 2024 10:13 AM 0 Wisdom of Nym: What Final Fantasy XIV’s fan festival needs to accomplish Choose My Adventure: Villagers & Heroes starts off feeling like a different game Progress Bar: Another go-round with cozy ‘MMO’ Palia, this time on the Switch End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2024 and beyond Well Fed: An introduction to our MMO kitchen and MOP’s new Well Fed column Vague Patch Notes: MMOs are still just games you rent Casually Classic: Analyzing WoW Classic’s 2024 roadmap Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2023 Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2024 MassivelyOP’s complete 2023 awards recap and debrief Into the Super-Verse: Reflecting on City of Heroes, back officially at long last Not So Massively: It’s okay that Redfall is just okay The Game Archaeologist: The Sims Bustin’ Out, the online Sims game nobody remembers Wisdom of Nym: The highs and lows of Final Fantasy XIV’s 2024 Tokyo fan festival The Soapbox: Hearthstone is probably in for another boring year in 2024 Choose My Adventure: Villagers and Heroes starts to click and become routine at the same time Casually Classic: 12 quality-of-life improvements coming with Cataclysm Classic End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2024 Leaderboard: What was the best *new* MMO of 2023? Into the Super-Verse: Rediscoveries I made diving headlong into City of Heroes Homecoming Four Winds: Catching up with Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2023? Massively Overthinking: The 2023 MMO trainwrecks (almost) nobody noticed The Daily Grind: What MMOs are you no longer anticipating at the top of 2024? Vague Patch Notes: The real question every MMO has to answer Fight or Kite: Harry Potter Magic Awakened’s winter seasonal event has its claws in me LOTRO Legendarium: Brainstorming new hobby ideas for LOTRO Wisdom of Nym: Dreaming about Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.55 during the day-long downtime Vitae Aeternum: The ups and downs of New World’s revamped story Choose My Adventure: Returning to Genshin Impact in 2024 Perfect Ten: The weirdest weapons from MMOs of yore Into the Super-Verse: What City of Heroes needs now is not more endgame content Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs Vague Patch Notes: What City of Heroes Homecoming means for the wider MMORPG industry Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2024? LOTRO Legendarium: Digging into LOTRO’s 2024 roadmap, from U39 to the Baharbêl expansion Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s petite patch 6.55 Choose My Adventure: Genshin Impact is slowly working its charms on me Perfect Ten: The 10 most utterly bizarre Final Fantasy XIV NPC names Vague Patch Notes: Early access is just game development as performance art Working As Intended: How to mod City of Heroes Homecoming the easy way Massively Overthinking: Open world difficulty and puzzles in MMOs Into the Super-Verse: Gearing up as a newcomer to City of Heroes Homecoming Tamriel Infinium: The history of Elder Scrolls games (before and after Elder Scrolls Online) Fight or Kite: Warhaven’s pre-season 2 is super fun but perilously unbalanced The Game Archaeologist: Dragon Ball Online, the MMO that never made it to the west Interview: Survival MMO Age of Water on monetization, sandbox play, and the Q1 early access launch Wisdom of Nym: The franchise references for jobs in Final Fantasy XIV The Soapbox: Casuals and soloers need challenging MMO content too Choose My Adventure: Genshin Impact is a perfectly lovely single-player RPG Perfect Ten: Why MMOs should never ditch text chat