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Make them fight.

Vague Patch Notes: MOBAs, battle royales, and shallow genre pools in the online gaming space

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This past week, Nintendo announced Pokemon Unite, and then I had to go to see a doctor because I rolled my eyes so far...

The Daily Grind: How did your early MMOs shape your expectations for the MMOs you play now?

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I was chatting with MOP reader and commenter Bruno Brito a while back when something he said about player expectations in MMOs struck me....

Desert Oasis: Putting Black Desert’s music system in context with other MMOs

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Back in the day, I used to really be into the ukulele. I used to play in open mics and sold them as my...

MMO Cartographer: A stroll through Eternal Magic, the Candy Crush of MMOs

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I didn't catch the first release of Eternal Magic, so the Steam release this past spring seemed like a good time to get into...
The stars are over Dun Morogh.

WoW Factor: How do we make a good Warcraft movie?

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Sometimes, dear readers, things simply do not line up. I really have a long piece I'm looking forward to doing, and then Blizzard does...
When the lights go down in the city.

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are unlikely to survive 2020?

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The thing about surprising MMO shutdowns is that they're just that: surprising. No one expected to lose City of Heroes when we did, even if...

Massively on the Go: Exploring Pokemon Sword and Shield’s Isle of Armor expansion

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I knew from the website shown at the initial announcement that Pokemon Sword and Shield's first expansion, The Isle of Armor, would be more of...

Perfect Ten: What makes me feel welcome when trying out your MMO

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While it's not "standing in front of your high school in your underpants and reciting a difficult Shakespeare passage" level of anxiety, there is...

Chaos Theory: Secret World Legend’s third anniversary and the 2020 MEGAversary event

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Another year has come and gone. (Though we might be glad this one's over.) Secret World Legends, the reboot of the beloved Secret World,...

The Daily Grind: What are the coolest MMO alien races?

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OK, for today's topic, we're going to be limiting ourselves strictly to scifi MMORPGs (sorry fantasy, you'll have to settle for pretty much 95%...

Choose My Adventure: EVE Online’s combat coalesces into something nearing enjoyment

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All right, EVE Online. I'm starting to get you. The mission was to continue with the career path NPCs, and after some more time in...

The Soapbox: No, forced grouping in MMOs isn’t ‘social’

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Thinking back to high school, I'm awash in memories of the many deep, meaningful relationships that spawned as a result of being forced to...

The Daily Grind: Are we plagued by a ‘video game culture reset’?

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Author and academic Ian Bogost recently tweeted something that struck me, particularly since it's a topic I harp on all the time. "Video-game culture resets...
Red means dead.

Wisdom of Nym: Job extension ideas for the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion

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One of the interesting things about each given expansion for Final Fantasy XIV is that we always get new tricks along the way... sometimes...

Not So Massively: My top 10 favorite ARPG classes

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I love me some ARPGs, but in any RPG your enjoyment will depend so much on finding the right class. A game that felt...

The Daily Grind: Would your favorite MMORPG benefit from more servers?

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Back around when Elder Scrolls Online launched Greymoor, I saw an interesting thread on the official forums asking for new servers. For some MMOs,...

The Game Archaeologist: The virtual worlds of the 1990s

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With the increased speeds of modems and the move into 3-D space in the 1990s, some game designers thought it was a logical conclusion...
The vista

The Daily Grind: Do you like collecting trivia about unused MMO content?

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We recently ran a feature all about an iceberg of obscure World of Warcraft knowledge, weird unused parts of the game or old promotions or...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO newbie zone has the best music?

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Yes, it's me talking about MMO music again. You can't shut me up about it. But instead of throwing the field wide open for...
lol

WoW Factor: The time-skip Shadowlands theory and the longing for World of Warcraft 2

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All right, here we go. Normally this is the sort of thing that I wouldn't actually spend a whole week on because believe it...

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