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It's an alphabet soup of good (MMO) vibes this month! While many may have returned to the school of hard knocks this fall, plenty...

If we get more than two more expansions in Final Fantasy XIV, we're going to be moving into some interesting territory: Players are at level...

A mere fortnight ago, the team behind Ashes of Creation took its MMO combat testing ground known as Apocalypse and opened the doors on...

Do you ever have one of those moments where somebody asks you something that's just ever so slightly adjacent to your field of work...

It is fairly rare for an MMORPG to sell an official soundtrack these days unless the game is fairly prominent (i.e., Final Fantasy XIV...

It was a few years back when my wife decided to give Final Fantasy XI another shot and finally found it really clicking for her....

Today's Ask Mo is not really about comment moderation, but it's where I want to start. Over the years of trying to cat-herd Massively OP's...

You all know that I love my hypotheticals by now, so here's another one for our daily discussion period. Imagine that you have the...

The night after my last entry, Ceilidh took me out to the shores of Loch Modan. It wasn't for an occasion or anything; we...

Infomercials are the worst. There's nothing quite as infuriating as turning on the TV only to find a 30-minute commercial about how people can't...

There was a neat thread on the MMORPG subreddit a few weeks back about how to organize MMO guilds across multiple timezones. If you...

So... this was honestly not the story that I had expected to have wound up coming out of Eternal Magic. I'd been expecting that "beauty...

What kind of hero are you going to be today? In most MMOs, that question and its possible answers are watered down and homogenized, but...

Battle royale games are both the newest flash-in-the-pan and one of the oldest genres out there; it's not exactly a new idea to put...

When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce...

If you can work around the complexities of multiple people's schedules, there's a delight to be found in scheduling a regular group night every...

Sometimes, you’ve just got to run around and blow up hordes of enemies with big flashy skills and hoover in the goodies. You have...

I’ve noticed a common complaint bouncing around the Guild Wars 2 community, one that I believe to be a myth. Today, I’d like to...

I tend to be the kind of person who keeps MMOs and other video games installed a long time, especially if I've gone to...

So how, exactly, are we making this thing this time? That's what I want to know. It's not exactly a secret that Final Fantasy XIV's initial...