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Choose My Adventure: Bots and dungeon blocks douse enthusiasm for Blade & Soul NEO
"I've heard of DPS queues, but this is ridiculous."
Imagine that being said while I tap on a fat cigar and waggle my bushy eyebrows....
The Daily Grind: Do you appreciate brutal honesty from MMORPG devs?
A few weeks back, the few remaining Might and Delight developers admitted in print that Kickstarted MMO Book of Travels is basically in maintenance...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about phantom jobs in Final Fantasy XIV
At this point, we don't have a full list of the phantom jobs that will be available in Final Fantasy XIV's new field exploration...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best way to handle MMO economy errors?
Back in February, Amazon raised all the eyebrows when it clawed back a range of drops from innocent Lost Ark players. According to the...
LOTRO Legendarium: The virtuous world of Middle-earth
There are plenty of fantasy brands out there to suit any preference. If you arranged them on a spectrum, you might start at cozy...
The Daily Grind: Which of your favorite MMO’s patches had the least aesthetic appeal?
So it is not exactly a secret that I like Warframe a lot, and thus you are probably aware that I am entirely on-board...
The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO spring festival fanatic?
As I type this, the weather abruptly shifted from shivery winter to the warmth of spring in the span of a week, with flowers...
Not So Massively: Crusader Kings 3 carves its own path in the grand strategy genre
The list of games that fill the multiplayer medieval conquest and political court vassal relationship/resource management simulator niche is unsurprisingly short. In fact, it’s...
Warframe of Mind: First impressions of Techrot Encore
Here is the initial column I wrote about the most recent Warframe patch in its totality: On Tuesday, I did not have Secondary Merciless...
The Daily Grind: How many players does an MMO need to be considered healthy?
A while back on Reddit, I saw a comment - I think it was about Throne & Liberty - that pushed back hard against...
Fight or Kite: PvPvE extraction game Legacy Steel and Sorcery is already showing promise in early access
Love 'em, hate 'em, or pine for the good old days, we are most certainly in the age of extraction RPGs. Just as spring...
Vague Patch Notes: If you have my money, you’d better have my video game
So over the last couple of weeks Lord of the Rings Online has made itself quite a mess to clean up. It's not the...
The Daily Grind: How closely do you track your spending on free-to-play MMOs?
When it comes to free-to-play games, you might find yourself inadvertently spending way more than a subscription price every month. Not necessarily, of course....
Perfect Ten: Short but mighty playable MMO races
I like short races in MMOs. Not exclusively, but if there is an option to go small or go home, you can bet that...
Casually Classic: Are the new WoW Classic servers actually a Burning Crusade ‘waiting room?’
When Blizzard abruptly announced last November that it was launching the 20th anniversary servers -- WoW Classic Classic -- the studio gave many assurances...
The Daily Grind: What was the ‘silver age’ of your MMORPG?
We're all familiar with the term "golden age" -- the absolute height of a particular genre or property when it sat on the top...
Choose My Adventure: Blade & Soul NEO’s Assassin class and story fights finally show their teeth
For the most part, my time in Blade & Soul NEO has been interesting enough in terms of fights but not so intense that...
Why I Play: Monster Hunter Wilds still has its hooks in me after 70 hours and 70 hunter ranks
I have been gleefully submitting to full-on Monster Hunter Wilds brainrot. The past couple of weeks have seen myself, my friends, and my family...
The Daily Grind: If you lost your main MMO characters, would you still play?
As the Lord of the Rings Online transfers were going on over the last few weeks, I had a couple of brief moments when...
Wisdom of Nym: Last-minute thoughts before the release of Final Fantasy XIV’s Seekers of Eternity
Based on the live letter and the trailer for the next Final Fantasy XIV patch, I definitely feel at least somewhat less served than...
