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The Soapbox: How Magic Legends went wrong with the Dimir Assassin class
Cryptic and Perfect World Entertainment are known for their love of lockboxes as a monetization strategy. Therefore it was not wholly surprising when Magic:...
WoW Factor: We’re waiting how long for Shadowlands’ patch 9.1, now?
So it looks like World of Warcraft's next patch is going up for testing on the week of April 12th. What the heck is happening? At...
Stick and Rudder: Shaky space legs and promising potential in Elite Dangerous’ Odyssey alpha phase one
Yep. This certainly was an alpha test.
For those who are curious, yes, I bought my way in to the Elite Dangerous Odyssey alpha, as did...
The Daily Grind: What argument does your MMO’s community have that would make no sense in other MMOs?
I don't think it's possible to go a day on a City of Heroes server, back in the old days or now on the...
Vague Patch Notes: Template
The other day, I was in the middle of a humanizing anecdote when something happened that was tangentially related to MMOs. This prompted me...
Stick and Rudder: Five potentially stupid yet fun Elite Dangerous spaceship builds
Even though I've logged a total of 112 hours of Elite: Dangerous at the time of this writing, I'm still pretty much a noob...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite April Fools’ day MMO gag?
This year, we have elected not to do an April Fools' joke because we found ourselves with something more pressing to do. It turns...
Massively on the Go: Why Nintendo and Pikmin make sense in Niantic’s hands
With the recent news that Nintendo and Niantic will work together for more AR games based on Nintendo IPs, I thought it might be...
Perfect Ten: Top 10 annoying things you hear in MMORPG global chat
General chat, sometimes called "Barrens chat" or "zone chat" or "the party line," is both the bane and the secret fixation of my existence....
The Daily Grind: What MMO content is perfect for short gaming sessions?
Lately I've been exploring Lord of the Rings Online's new(ish) mission system, which is essentially a smaller version of skirmishes that scale to a...
The Soapbox: Would Asheron’s Call make a good battle royale game?
With the recent announcement of Crayta coming to PCs, I was reminded of some discussions on the Asheron's Call subreddit about making a battle royale fan...
Choose My Adventure: I think I accidentally turned my Cleric into a Necromancer in RIFT
One of the big selling points in RIFT has always been the ability to combine three of the game's Souls into a custom class....
Casually Classic: In defense of a good ‘looking for group’ tool in World of Warcraft
While World of Warcraft certainly made a number of questionable design decisions over the years, for my money one of the absolute best moves...
The Daily Grind: What’s the oldest MMORPG character you still play?
Every year or so we'll do a conversation topic about the oldest MMO we still play. But realistically, the same couple of MMOs always...
Wisdom of Nym: The experimental nature of Final Fantasy XIV’s Blue Mage
One of my half-serious predictions during the initial batch of predictions for Final Fantasy XIV's big reveal showcase was that we'd learn about a...
Not So Massively: Magic Legends is messy, deep, and more of an MMO than you think
I can't remember the last time I struggled so much deciding whether I like a game or not. I'm a fan of ARPGs, and...
The Daily Grind: What informs your cosmetic choices in MMOs?
The days in which it was an active debate whether or not a given MMOÂ should have a system of cosmetics have passed us by,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Finding purpose in Lord of the Rings Online’s Wildwood
In what promises to be quite the busy year for Lord of the Rings Online, the game's first content update -- Wildwood -- arrived...
The Daily Grind: Do you take the path of least resistance in MMOs?
It's been a long-held axiom in the gaming industry that players will always, always pick the path of least resistance toward a goal or...
WoW Factor: Why aren’t we getting more customization options in Shadowlands?
You might be surprised that I haven't written a piece in WoW Factor yet about the BlizzConline announcement that we would get no new...
