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Longtime commenter and friend to man and beast alike Danny Smith mentioned recently that there's a rumor of Blizzard putting World of Warcraft allied race...

As we approach the first anniversary of City of Heroes' revival on the rogue server circuit, I wanted to take this opportunity to share...

I would very much like any and all MMO developers who are reading this to hear me: Please, please make your user interface as...

If I made a New Year's wish upon a falling star, it wouldn't be far-fetched to think getting new content in Secret World Legends...

So it seems pretty likely at this point that we are going to keep going through the various World of Warcraft expansions with Classic servers...

It's very obvious why Final Fantasy XIV has items like Antidotes. These medicines are consistently present across the series, so they need to be in...

A couple years back (this being the definition where "a couple" means "I can't remember precisely how many"), I was talking with a friend...

This guest Soapbox was commissioned through MassivelyOP's Patreon program and is authored by Steve "Sray" Blouin, a name our longtime commenters will surely recognize...

Not quite a year ago, when Amazon took New World out of alpha and back to the drawing board, I posed almost this exact...

Last December, the Massively OP 2019 Awards gave its "Best Trend" nod to the rise of rogue servers in the MMO genre. Preservation of...

Because I love a good story in an MMO -- I know, I'm rebelling against the cool crowd here -- I particularly enjoy it...

Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga has so far been filled with plenty of nostalgic callbacks to the original Guild Wars’ Eye of the North...

I've written before about MMO economies and how badly handled inflation can wreck them because it's one of my pet favorite topics, but the...

While Funcom's latest investor note focused mainly on DUNE, there was a little tidbit of big import nestled in there about the current IP-based...

Odd as it might be to say, I don't really have a lot more to say just yet about tomorrow's patch for Final Fantasy...

MMOs and RTS are two of the genres of game I play the most. Given that, you'd think I'd be a big fan of...

I know, I know, PC master race and all that. I'm guessing most old-school MMORPG players think of themselves as PC players because that's...

Star Trek Online has a bit of an advantage when it comes to giving me a place to hang my hat - it's really easy...

It's finally time: We're heading back to Rohan. On Lord of the Rings Online's progression servers, at least -- the live servers have hosted...

Thanks to the DikuMUD model, MMO players have fought many, many bosses in their gaming careers. New dungeons primarily are introduced by how many...