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Global Chat: Is FFXIV the perfect solo MMORPG?
Kicking off this week's roundup of MMO blog posts, we'll hop over to Dragonchasers where Pete is ecstatic to share the revelation that Final...
Battle Bards Episode 212: Elder Scrolls Online Blackwood
Now that the Battle Bards have had that expensive knee surgery done to remove all arrows, they’re back in the Elder Scrolls Online universe...
Massively Overthinking: The ideal MMO server setup
Over the last year, we've seen multiple major MMO and expansion launches, and most of them went awry in some way or another. Final...
Indie sandbox Prosperous Universe emerges from early access to launch on April 20
We've been keeping an eye on indie MMORPG Prosperous Universe for almost five years now. It's a browser-base space sandbox that's heavy on spreadsheets...
Dauntless adjusts hunt passes, adds new weapon rumors, and starts a new season in Return to Light update
Players of Dauntless should be intimately familiar with the hunt pass feature of the game, which works like any other battle pass you've seen...
Palia’s alpha testers break the game by baking pies
As 2022 marches onward, so to does the alpha phase of cozy life sim Palia progress. The first alpha test kicked off earlier this...
Star Wars The Old Republic will add weapons to outfitter and increase currency rewards in update 7.0.2
While most players of Star Wars: The Old Republic are likely waiting for the content features to arrive in update 7.1, the next patch...
Lost in Lost Ark’s item-leveling endgame? Amazon has a new guide for that
Amazon has a new dev blog up this week all about Lost Ark's progression, specifically aimed at new players who've made it to level...
The Cycle Frontier talks about upcoming balancing to alleviate solo player vs. squad pain points
When you drop into a match in The Cycle: Frontier, the fact that you don't know what or who you'll encounter is an intrinsic...
Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons Aetherblades deep-dive reveals the true origins of Ankka
In what is hopefully not a one-off blog post, ArenaNet has a deep-dive into Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons development up to cap...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMO suffers from the most useless housing system?
A few weeks ago, I was showing my seven-year-old around Villagers and Heroes, and she wanted to get herself a house. I warned her...
Sea of Thieves celebrates 1 million Pirate Legends with a variety of in-game events
The Sea of Thieves has one million Pirate Legends - aka high-level players, insofar as "level" means anything in a game with no vertical...
Guild Wars 2 preps the return of living story season one’s Flame and Frost for April 19
Just a few weeks ago, ArenaNet stunned Guild Wars 2 players with the news that in addition to a post-End of Dragons living story...
Global Chat: Why is Guild Wars 2 so addictive?
I am always a huge fan of both writing and reading essays about why people simply love an MMORPG. Over at Tales from the...
Massively Overthinking: What do you expect from MMO Kickstarters?
I know, I know. People don't trust Kickstarters anymore. Nor should they, especially now. I think our genre knows this now. For every Wagadu...
One More Game’s latest blog talks bot AI, peppers in hints at a possible but ‘hypothetical’ PvP RTS
We're going to lead off by stating that dev studio One More Game - the one that was founded by former ArenaNet and Riot...
War Thunder’s chat has been disabled for a full month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
One of the tried-and-true rules about MMORPGs is that you're almost always better off if you disable global chat immediately - especially if you're...
Dual Universe elaborates on PvP features and changes arriving with the Athena update
Players of Dual Universe already have the overall gist of the Athena update and its primary focus on PvP features, but that doesn't mean...
Diablo II Resurrected delays update 2.4 due to ‘showstopper’ bugs, Overwatch 2 outlines its new ping system
For those who are looking forward to the class balancing and competitive ladder features of Diablo II: Resurrected's update 2.4, there's some bad news:...
Massively Overthinking: How long should MMO expansions be?
Star Wars The Old Republic's Legacy of the Sith struggled for many reasons, but the one I've seen echoed over and over is that...
