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WoW Factor: WoW Classic’s Season of Mastery is starting to gall me

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So here's a column that might be a bit more woolly than recent installments of this particular column. One of the thing that I've...

The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMO’s greatest untapped strength?

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Earlier this fall, MOP's Tyler said something that resonated with me: "Guild Wars 2 is a great game that is wholly ignorant of its...

Massively on the Go: Guide to Animal Crossing New Horizons’ Happy Home Paradise unlockables and bonuses

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I suppose I should be thankful that Animal Crossing: New Horizons decided to launch its latest update early, as now I've had more time to...
You are bad and you should feel bad.

Vague Patch Notes: NFTs in gaming are a bad, dumb idea

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This is going to be a little more ranty than usual. Apologies for that in advance, but... well, we're talking about NFTs. NFTs are...
Old world.

The Daily Grind: What’s the most upsetting MMO delay you’ve experienced?

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Delays happen in the game industry, especially the last year or so. They're not ideal, but they happen. A good development team tries to...

Perfect Ten: How MMOs explain away our infinite resurrections

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Why? Why do we die in MMOs and keep coming back to life? Are we in a type of hell defined by endless combat...

The Daily Grind: What do you think of Lost Ark so far?

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The buzz on the MMO streets is all about an Amazon Game Studios release -- no, not New World, but rather Lost Ark. The...

Choose My Adventure: Avorion affirms that I am not a very good shipwright

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Entering into Avorion for this month's Choose My Adventure column had me assuming a few things. First off, since this game was very much...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Should Guild Wars 2 delete leveling?

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Leveling is one of those things that you just have to have to count as an RPG, right? It’s expected. At this point, the...
Burn.

The Daily Grind: Would WoW be better off with a full reboot?

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A couple of months ago, Justin and I were joking on the podcast about how what World of Warcraft really needed wasn't WoW Classic...

Not So Massively: Lost Ark is a promising MMOARPG with a poor first impression

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Like many ARPG fans, I have long-awaited the Western release of Smilegate's MMOARPG, Lost Ark. Though the launch has been delayed to next year,...
Nairs your Thav.

Wisdom of Nym: Coping with the Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker delay

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Sigh. So by now even if you didn't watch the live letter, you've heard the bad news. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker was just in sight,...

Interview: Crowfall’s freemium update, small-scale PvP, new players, and the future of the game

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Another month has passed, and another meaty patch is coming to Crowfall. That's right, today we'll see the latest update (7.300) arrive on the...

The Daily Grind: Are you still waiting for the ‘perfect’ MMO?

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When new MMOs come out, I sometimes have to talk myself out of judging them on a dramatically different standard from existing MMOs -...
catte

Tamriel Infinium: Should Elder Scrolls Online increase its landscape difficulty?

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In so many ways, One Tamriel reinvented the Elder Scrolls Online experience by freeing players to pursue their own paths through the game. I...
Void where prohibited.

The Daily Grind: Do you pay close attention to MMO studio financial reports?

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Investor reports are bland, boring, and usually not what anyone finds to be gripping reading even if you're an investor in a given company....

The Daily Grind: Should ArenaNet continue Guild Wars 2 expansions or make Guild Wars 3?

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While I personally am not completely sold on Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons (I was never a Cantha Baby, if I can coin...

Massively on the Go: First impressions of the multiplayer Mario Party Superstars

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We've talked about Mario Party a few times on MassivelyOP, but only recently, as the Mario Kart series is both older and probably more familiar to...

Desert Oasis: Unearthing the origin story of Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss

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On our side of the pond, the exploits of various popular video game companies and their founding are well documented. But when it comes...
Opposition.

WoW Factor: The player council is not the solution to World of Warcraft’s ills

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So World of Warcraft is going to establish a player council to offer feedback to the developers. What a terrible idea with already poor implementation...

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