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EverQuesting: The gaffe of gating EverQuest II’s content behind a sub
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...
Perfect Ten: The final minutes of beloved MMORPGs
"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...
Jukebox Heroes: City of Heroes’ soundtrack
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...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s first patch 3.3 live letter
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...
EVE Evolved: Fixing EVE’s New Player Experience (again)
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...
Perfect Ten: Ten City of Heroes systems every MMO should have stolen by now
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,...
Chaos Theory: The Secret World survival game
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...
Tamriel Infinium: The Dark Brotherhood of Elder Scrolls Online
If any of you played the Dark Brotherhood quest in Skyrim, you likely thought very little of the Black Sacrament being performed by the...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s deepest dungeon, Palace of the Dead
The funny thing about Final Fantasy XIV, in some ways, is that the game could actually get away for a reasonably long time without...
The Game Archaeologist: Saga of Ryzom
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...
MMO Mechanics: Innovating mechanics to refresh Guild Wars 2
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,...
PAX East 2016: Guns of Icarus shows off its new ships, new guns, and new maps
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...
Perfect Ten: What I loved about Dungeons and Dragons Online
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...
EverQuesting: Daybreak is on the right side of the MMORPG legacy server debate
WoW is stupid. Yes, I said it. World of Warcraft is dumb. More accurately, I should say Blizzard is stupid. The reason? Its stance...
Jukebox Heroes: Six cover songs of popular MMO tunes
There's a dedicated subcommunity of video game music afficionados out there that love these soundtracks so much that they devote considerable effort to producing...
Hyperspace Beacon: Why SWTOR gamers are so stoked for the return of Vette
The first two chapters of Knights of the Fallen Empire after the break kind of left the Star Wars: The Old Republic fanbase feeling...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Everything you need to know about Guild Wars 2’s April 2016 update
Today is the day, people: I'm hoping you're all willing and able to log in and follow along with the Q2 update patch notes...
Wisdom of Nym: What we should (and shouldn’t) expect from Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion
We all know that this year's Fanfest is going to include an announcement of a new Final Fantasy XIV expansion. "Know" might be too...
EVE Evolved: What to expect from EVE Fanfest 2016
Ask the average gamer what he knows about EVE Online and after the word "boring" and a spreadsheet joke or two, he'll probably talk about stories...
Working As Intended: Busting up the MMORPG nostalgia party
Last week, a clever Massively OP commenter, SC_Deadline, neatly summed up the ongoing Nostalrius emulator shutdown as Blizzard "bust up someone's nostalgia party," which...
