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The Daily Grind: What do you most want to know about Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker?
Today is the day when all of the Final Fantasy XIV fandom's namedays have come at once. Yes, it's the media tour reveal day, when...
Vitae Aeternum: New World excels and entertains despite uninspired gameplay design
After more than 20 levels’ worth of time in New World, you’d think I’d have a pretty good handle on why this game has...
The Daily Grind: How do you protect yourself from scammers in MMORPGs?
As long as there have been MMOs, there have been MMO scams. If you play, then you know. So you're not going to be...
Wisdom of Nym: More speculation about future Final Fantasy XIV jobs
I'm going to be entirely candid with you, folks: You all probably know by now when the media tour embargo lift is at this...
Vitae Aeternum: New World lacks customization, but that can be fixed
Welcome to our first installment of Vitae Aeternum, an ongoing column in which multiple writers of MassivelyOP plan to bring you coverage, opinions, rants,...
Stick and Rudder: Recapping everything Star Citizen showed at the latest CitizenCon
The digital CitizenCon event has, for all intents and purposes, come and gone, lining up a series of seven different video panels that were...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most obscure MMO you’ve played?
You are probably aware of the fact at this point that we have an ongoing series of posts in which we ask whatever happened...
The Daily Grind: Are you good about remembering old MMO account details?
Theoretically, you should have all of your account credentials for various MMOs set up so that if you decide to go back after a...
The Game Archaeologist: Kingdom of Loathing
It is, in so many ways, the antithesis of a modern MMORPG. It has crude stick figure drawings instead of lush 3-D graphics. It...
The Daily Grind: How fast do you need to be making progress in MMOs?
Along with half of the population of the planet, it seems, I've been playing New World lately. And I found that I had to...
WoW Factor: What the Season of Mastery says about WoW Classic
The fracturing has begun. That's what sticks out to me when I look at WoW Classic's Season of Mastery limited-time experiment.
Obviously, this is not entirely...
The Daily Grind: What’s an MMO UI feature you didn’t know you needed until you got it?
New World has a couple of settings I can't recall seeing in many other MMORPGs. It's got a toggle that allows you to flag...
Vague Patch Notes: Anonymity is not why people are awful online
One of the intentions of the Vague Patch Notes column is to have a place to share things that we're going to need to...
The Daily Grind: Which NPC do you personally hate the most in your favorite MMOs?
A while back, Bree and I were sharing memories of the original launch of Guild Wars and talking about the exact moment when we...
Perfect Ten: A sampler of crowdfunded MMOs and how they’re doing
I've gone on the record many a time as being deeply suspicious of Kickstarter and crowdfunding when it comes to MMOs. There are reasons...
The Daily Grind: What one MMO mount would you eliminate forever?
We all know that poor horses have handled more than their share of schlepping around MMO players over the years. We also know that...
Choose My Adventure: It’s bear time in Lord of the Rings Online
It has been a few years since I made my way back to Lord of the Rings Online. I remember being around the game...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG for gatherers?
My husband is usually not the kind of person who gets obsessed with crafter-centric MMORPGs, but New World has turned him into a gatherer:...
Wisdom of Nym: Bespoke rotations in Final Fantasy XIV as both a positive and a negative
When you get right down to it, the character specs on display in Final Fantasy XIV are some of the most limited out of...
Fight or Kite: Guild Wars 2’s Bladesworn, Catalyst, and Vindicator walk into an arena…
No, there’s no joke there. I just wanted to know if anyone actually saw this happen during the Guild Wars 2 beta test a...
