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Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s awful patch 3.2.1 Marauder and Sentinel changes

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I like to consider myself a measured person. I try not to give into overblown rants and statements that I cannot take back. Too...

Not So Massively: Diablo III thieves sentenced; LoL begins automatic bans

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League of Legends launched a new system to hand out immediate automatic bans for chat infractions this week, leading to many claims of unfair...

Sword and Bored: Ninja Loot

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Mo downs his first miniboss, only to see one of his "friends" abscond with the loot.

EverQuesting: Learning about Landmark’s dungeons

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I thought I saw a dev dungeon reference. I did! I did see a dev dungeon reference! And it's about time. I have to admit...
It's not just me, right?

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV is ready to expand

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There's a phrase that gets passed around my house frequently these days, and the phrase is "expansion mode." I have two characters locked into...

Guild Chat: The layout, usage, and manners of voice chat

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Welcome along to Guild Chat, my own wee place in the 'webs in which we can discuss all things guilds and club together to...

LOTRO Legendarium: Eight years, eight pictures, eight stories

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I might be a little tardy in doing this, but every spring since I started to write about Lord of the Rings Online, I've...

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s endgame dungeons, from launch to present

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It's crazy to realize that Final Fantasy XIV has added more dungeons via patches in a year and a half than World of Warcraft has...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Expanding into Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns

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When Guild Wars 2's expansion was announced, most of the questions on our lips were permutations of "What's the new level cap?" and "What...

Tamriel Infinium: What we know about Elder Scrolls Online’s Imperial City

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Even before the PC launch of the Elder Scrolls Online last year, there was something the community pined for: the Imperial City. In my first trip...

Not So Massively: Blizzard’s $1.2 million tourney; X-Wing successor hits Kickstarter

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In a bizarre coincidence, four separate MOBAs announced new champions this week. SMITE revealed an adorable Norse squirrel god named Ratatoskr and officially launched...

Sword and Bored: Boss fight

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Mo takes on an unimpressed crab miniboss with his newfound companions in his very first PUG.

EVE Evolved: Building your own empire

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When CCP announced its far-reaching plans to overhaul EVE Online's territorial warfare gameplay, players were cautiously optimistic but understandably guarded. EVE's old sovereignty system...

The Game Archaeologist: Multiplayer BattleTech

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It was the 31st century, where feuding factions decided to settle their differences by throwing multi-ton war robots at each other. It was also...
GTA Online

Quick tips for maximizing your GTA Online fun

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I've been playing GTA Online for 50-something hours now, and while I'm by no means an expert, I'm a lot smarter about the game...
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WoW Factor: A three million loss lesson

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It's been a little while, hasn't it, friends? In the time since I last penned WoW Factor (which missed an installment purely due to...

EverQuesting: Life after Landmark’s big wipe

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It was just over a week ago that Landmark's servers went offline in preparation for a major upheaval that affected nearly every system in...

Perfect Ten: Future MMOs that I can’t wait to play

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I imagine that most of us have a future bucket list of MMOs that we wish would get here already. It wasn't but a...

Ask Mo: The trouble with roleplaying in MMORPGs

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Long ago on Massively-that-was, a reader named Avaera sent in a long list of fabulous questions worth addressing. I'm tackling another in today's edition...

Jukebox Heroes: How Elite: Dangerous’ music put me into a mild coma

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You know what gets me righteously angry? I shall tell you. I shall tell you, and then you shall share in my anger, you...

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