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Every MMO has character classes. Every single one. You might rail against this by pointing out that there are several games out there with...

I have long been a proponent of roleplaying in MMOs. I’ve often been the roleplayer’s spokesperson on different podcasts and new media broadcasts. I’ve...

The cross-class system in Final Fantasy XIV is not good. It functions, yes, but the mixing and matching of abilities from other classes is...

Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, the space in which I get together with the MOP commenters to help a reader in need...

The impact of Myst's launch in 1993 was akin to an atomic bomb going off in the PC gaming world. The leap forward in graphical...

The past few weeks have been pretty well packed, both in a personal and in a professional sense, so it's easy to sort of...

With last week's release of GU100 in EverQuest II, an interesting conversation reared its head again -- a not necessarily flattering one for Daybreak. While...

"This is how the world ends," T S Eliot wrote in his famous poem, "not with a bang, but with a whimper." That might well...

In the history of MMORPGs, City of Heroes might well go down as having one of the most passionate communities in the genre. People didn't...

I don't know why, but I was kind of surprised by the sheer volume of discussion about Final Fantasy XIV patch 3.3 in the...

It's become almost a running joke in the comments of articles that EVE Online is a great game to read about but not nearly...

Today, City of Heroes turns 12 years old. Except it doesn't; the game shut down three years ago, it never lived until it reached twelve,...

I've been thinking. (A dangerous pastime, I know!) And I think I have come up with a solution to a number of the things...

If any of you played the Dark Brotherhood quest in Skyrim, you likely thought very little of the Black Sacrament being performed by the...

The funny thing about Final Fantasy XIV, in some ways, is that the game could actually get away for a reasonably long time without...

Every so often I get requests to cover such-and-such game in this column. These are often incredibly obscure titles, even to me, and when...

I usually keep MMO Mechanics quite general by looking at several games as examples to highlight my point regarding the mechanics of choice in each article,...

How many cooperative airship piloting simulators are there in the marketplace at the moment? The answer is that there's basically just the one, and...

Dungeons and Dragons Online was a very strange game at first glance. Ten years ago, I ventured into Stormreach with no more motivation than a longstanding...

WoW is stupid. Yes, I said it. World of Warcraft is dumb. More accurately, I should say Blizzard is stupid. The reason? Its stance...