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Vague Patch Notes: How to make your points and exit gracefully from online debates

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It's 2019, people. Let's do this. And by do this I of course mean learn to actually debate things in a way that might wind up changing...

The Daily Grind: What MMO has the brightest future looking into 2019?

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One of the most popular roundups we do every single year is about the healthiest MMORPGs in the genre. I love it because it...
Kerstab.

Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2018

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A not-inconsequential part of me misses the days when every MMO would pump out boxed expansions. I like buying boxes of stuff I like...

Choose My Adventure: Sorry, everyone, but I had fun in Star Citizen

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In spite of best efforts and even better advice, it's often pretty easy to have other folks bring you down for enjoying something. We...
Dropping an album.

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO freebie you’ve ever gotten?

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I, like 99.99% of the world's population, loves free swag. I love me dorky t-shirts I'll never wear, I crave stress balls that pop...

The best Massively OP community Daily Grinds of 2018

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Assuming the archives are correct, the first Daily Grind ever was penned by Krystalle Voecks on November 3rd, 2007, a day after Old Massively...
Burn it down!

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s 2018 in review

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Sometimes I wind up starting these a bit early because there's just not much to write about; other times I'm writing well in advance...
THE LAW

The Daily Grind: Do you have any MMO resolutions for 2019?

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So here we are in 2019. It looks a lot like 2018, really. But it's a new year, and this is usually the point...

The Stream Team: Hunting santas in TERA

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Usually beating up on santas is frowned upon. Take our word for it. In the case of TERA, however, it's not just acceptable but...
It's Lord of the Rings. There's your elevator pitch.

LOTRO Legendarium: Eight tips for leveling up in Lord of the Rings Online

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Typically around this time of the year, I'll offer up my wish list of features and changes that I'd like to see happen in...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG studio had the best communication in 2018?

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This past fall, Star Citizen's Chris Roberts raised more than a few eyebrows when he claimed that "no other game shares as much information...
Strawberry fields forever.

The Daily Grind: Do you have any MMO regrets from 2018?

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We talk a lot about how we feel about the year that's past and our resolutions for the next year, but we don't tend...
Going nowhere, going nowhere.

The Daily Grind: What was your greatest MMO gaming accomplishment in 2018?

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It is always good to pause and take stock of the year-that-was before you turn a corner into a fresh calendar. We've had 12...
Nothing else has worked.

WoW Factor: The zones that changed the most from Classic, Kalimdor edition

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Yeah, so Kalimdor has changed a bit in World of Warcraft. I'm going to be honest and say that I've never actually liked Kalimdor very much...

The Daily Grind: Will you kickstart any MMOs in 2019?

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Last year, I realized that I hadn't backed any video games. I didn't back any this year either. Oh, sure, some of the games...

EVE Evolved: How mass surveillance is improving EVE Online

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When developers get on stage at an event and start talking about things like big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud solutions, it often sounds...
Oh, right, you.

Vague Patch Notes: The complexity of classic preservation for MMOs

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Here's a fun question to kick things off. Should old black-and-white films be colorized? The key word there is "old," because there are a...
gonna dress me up

The Daily Grind: Do you feel the need to do MMO holiday events on every character?

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Every new holiday event in Final Fantasy XIV prompts the same reaction from me, a question of which of my characters will be sad if...

Choose My Adventure: Star Citizen’s missions and their bugs

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Before I begin, a bit of a program note for this edition of CMA: I kind of had to break from the voting selections...
That is definitely a thing.

Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2018

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Everyone loves surprises, right? Not always. Even good surprises can be a disruption of our comfortable routines, and bad ones can downright ruin a...

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