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The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives, 2024 edition
While MMORPGs constitute a shifting, ever-evolving market, their history remains surprisingly evergreen. That's what history is: Facts and stories stamped and preserved for our...
The Daily Grind: Did you hit the level cap in any MMORPGs this year?
As we reflect on the weird and often unpredictable journey through MMOs in 2024, it's always interesting to look back on one's accomplishments (or...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up Victory is Life and wrapping my head around a new ship in Star Trek Online
Well, this final Choose My Adventure for this year has certainly been a journey. For a couple of reasons. First, I've gotten through the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offered the best PvE experience in 2024?
I think I tried and failed to disambiguate PvE and PvM earlier this year - the terms are just too synonymous for modern gamers....
Fight or Kite: Multiversus is actually still incredible – but it’s not without some missteps
I’ve been waffling on what MMOs to play in this upcoming holiday break since I’ve got a handful of long-term games already in session....
Wisdom of Nym: The highs – and lows – of Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 7.15 stories
Technically, Final Fantasy XIV's patch 7.15 contains one piece of ongoing content... insofar as you're going to keep turning in custom deliveries to Nitowikwe...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMORPG trend of 2024?
Layoffs.
OK, that one's a gimmie - and it hurts a lot more than MMORPGs. So let me pitch another one:
A bunch of MMOs either...
The Daily Grind: How much thought do you put into your characters in MMOs?
Not every MMO has a roleplaying scene. Heck, some of them make it difficult to impossible to even imagine roleplaying within them. In those...
The Daily Grind: Do you enjoy wearing winter outfits in MMOs during the holidays?
With winter setting in and Christmas right around the corner, there's no better time in my opinion to be wrapping up your virtual avatar...
WoW Factor: The pros and cons of stripping timer requirements from World of Warcraft’s Mythic+ runs
So the other day, an interesting topic came up in our feeds: Apparently, at least if you go by the survey, World of Warcraft's...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best new zone or map of 2024?
The last couple of years, I've come full circle back to being a hardcore explorer in MMORPGs, and it's led me to some games...
Vague Patch Notes: MMORPG accelerationism is a stupid sucker’s game
The most recent Warframe update starts with a solid chunk of story, and the story that it tells is that of a time loop....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the worst for letting you earn (rather than buy) in-game cosmetics?
Every MMO on the market these days will let you slap down some money to look prettier. This, in and of itself, is fine....
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s Secret Level episode and Amazon’s odd priorities
Last week, Amazon's Prime Video launched its Secret Level anthology series of short animated episodes based on a variety of games. Included in this...
The Daily Grind: Do you stick to a uniform naming convention in MMOs?
Names are always a contentious and personal topic for MMORPGs, as they are our "face" by which others know us. And there are really...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Vitae Aeternum: Analyzing New World’s 2025 ‘living roadmap’
Covering New World's new "living roadmap" for 2025 seems like something I should have gotten to sooner, but in my defence I've been battling...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best event of 2024?
I'm well aware that this is going to be a hard Daily Grind to answer because it used to be an award, and it...
Wisdom of Nym: Reflecting on Final Fantasy XIV’s custom delivery clients
Tomorrow's patch will mark the latest in the long line of custom delivery clients in Final Fantasy XIV, but oddly enough I don't think...
The Soapbox: The Dauntless Awakening update is just as bad as advertised for veteran players
I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't have to write that headline.
I've been a Dauntless fan and player for many years now, getting...
