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The Daily Grind: Do MMO resources regenerate too quickly these days?
You may have to bear with me on this one, but lately I've started to suspect that the pendulum of MMO development has swung...
Vague Patch Notes: MMOs taking inspiration from one another is not a bad thing
Back when Guild Wars 2 announced the Bladesworn elite spec for Warriors, I had a little fun with the idea because... well, let's not...
The Daily Grind: Do you even want a survival game from Blizzard?
Last week, amid the Microsoft buyout and unionization/unionbusting within Activision, Blizzard boldly, absurdly stepped forward and announced that it was hiring for a survival...
Massively Overthinking: How would you fix New World?
Amazon's New World is one of the biggest, most ambitious, and most beautiful MMORPGs the industry has seen in years, and yet since its...
Not So Massively: Shadow of War plays fast and loose but hits the mark
Like many of you, I suspect, I have myriad games in my backlog. These neglected titles were typically obtained on sale at a point...
Perfect Ten: Ten things you need to understand about MMO healers
It's time for yet another column in Perfect Ten wherein we talk about a given player archetype, but this one's going to be a...
The Daily Grind: Will you try Swords of Legends Online out as a free-to-play title?
There was a time when launching as a free-to-play title seemed like an ambitious reach for a new MMO, but at this point it's...
WoW Factor: Pulling the trigger on cross-faction play (in the weakest way possible)
At long last, World of Warcraft is finally pulling the plug on one of the dumbest system decisions that was ever made for the game...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO zones are the most annoying to navigate?
Whew boy, few things raise my ire against game designers as fast as a zone that is horribly conceived and annoying as all get...
Choose My Adventure: Returning to Project Gorgon was much harder than I expected
Project Gorgon is being mean to me.
OK, maybe that’s unfair. I think I just shouldn’t have come back to this game after so long...
Tamriel Infinium: Six takeaways from Elder Scrolls Online’s High Isle announcement
I love me a good MMO roadmap, especially when it's about a game that you are enthusiastically playing. Elder Scrolls Online wrapped up its...
The Daily Grind: What will be your top three most-played MMOs in 2022?
A week ago, I asked you folks what your top three most-played MMOs of 2021 were. This week, I want to take a page...
Wisdom of Nym: What’s in Final Fantasy XIV’s February live letter?
It is not quite February yet at the time you read this, but it's not as if February is some distant future that we...
Vitae Aeternum: The rent in New World is too damn high!
The wonderful thing about video games is that they let you experience impossible things that could never happen in the real world. Like buying...
The Daily Grind: Do you put too much hope in MMOs that are far out?
I'll be up front with you all: I absolutely love anticipating, rooting for, and buying into the hype of upcoming MMORPGs. I know it...
Massively on the Go: February Pokemon GO events are a love/hate relationship
Some things are staying the same in Pokemon GO this February: weekly 1 coin Remote Raid Passes, the return of old Mega and Tier 5 raid pokemon, a...
The Daily Grind: Have publisher changes ever had good results for an MMO?
I may be the only person who cares - and I don't really care that much - but I don't have high hopes for...
The Game Archaeologist: The history of Hi-Rez’s Global Agenda
This past week, former Global Agenda players woke up to a surprising reality: Their game, which went offline in 2018, suddenly was back. Hi-Rez...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite upcoming Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons elite spec?
Last week, ArenaNet blasted Guild Wars 2 players with an email infographic purporting to show their play stats for the End of Dragons betas....
WoW Factor: What could World of Warcraft’s next expansion do to save the game?
You know what I miss? Writing about World of Warcraft as a fun game to play. Not writing about the latest iteration of sexual harassment...
