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The Daily Grind: How can MMO devs make tank classes more interesting?

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Sometimes Daily Grind topics blossom from extended conversations in the Massively OP office. And indeed, the other day we were tossing back and forth...

Massively on the Go: October brings new treats to Pokemon Go

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Pokemon GO's Season of Light continues into October, and while a lot of the announced content looks as familiar as that candy corn you...

Choose My Adventure: Temtem is just not for me

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I'll open with a little personal opinion: I've never liked the baseline Pokemon games. It never appealed to me when it first released, the...

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have had the most successful monetization turnarounds?

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Up until the last couple of years, I would've said Lord of the Rings Online's monetization was... not good. In fact, even though plenty...
Kershadow

Wisdom of Nym: Sorting through Final Fantasy XIV’s current balance state

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So right now, some jobs in Final Fantasy XIV are performing better than others. In other news, water retains its moisturizing properties. Early reports...

Vitae Aeternum: The New Secret World

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Comparisons between New World and The Secret World have existed pretty much since the earliest teases of NW. It's what put the game on...

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs push players through different content types?

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MOP reader Slava recently wrote to us with an interesting question about wildly different content types and the MMOs that either nudge or force...
We know, guys.

The Daily Grind: What things do MMOs do pre-launch that look like a red flag to you?

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Working in this industry for more than a decade has not, in fact, given me the ability to see the future. But it has...

Some Assembly Required: What to expect from Dual Universe’s September 27 wipe and launch

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Having trouble logging into Dual Universe? That's because Novaquark shut down its servers on the 22nd. But don't worry, the space sandbox did not...

The Daily Grind: What makes for a good MMO shindig?

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Originally I wrote, "What makes for a good MMO party?" but that can obviously be construed in a more business-like, less get-down-and-funky sense. In...
Yeah, this is a thing.

WoW Factor: Just be honest about what WoW Classic is now

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So here's something funny to consider: No matter what happens, Blizzard has collectively backed itself into a corner with World of Warcraft expansions over...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most unloved class in your favorite MMO, and how would you fix it?

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I was trundling around playing on my Lord of the Rings Online server the other night when someone advertised for a Burglar for some...
This non-game sucks, Beavis.

Vague Patch Notes: The perpetual MMO crowdfunding engine

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Do me a favor right now and navigate over to the Star Citizen webpage. It's possible that this has wildly changed in the time...
FLY

The Daily Grind: Which MMO with flight would be better without it?

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Flight is one of those movement tricks that a lot of MMOs use because let's be honest, flying is awesome. We are naturally land-bound...

Perfect Ten: 10 strategies to avoid getting fleeced in F2P MMOs

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"Nothing is ever truly free," my grizzled Uncle Trigger once told me. "So you got to pay for that there air! Pony up, boy!" While...
Fight me, coward.

The Daily Grind: Do you prefer costumes over transmog in MMOs?

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You know what's an interesting feature that both Elder Scrolls Online and Guild Wars 2 share? They both offer two different approaches to dressing...

Choose My Adventure: The joy of hunting for new critters to add to the Temtem collection

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I'm going to be honest, the initial worry when I saw what won last week's Choose My Adventure poll was that I had already...

The Daily Grind: Are isometric-ish viewpoints in MMOs a turnoff?

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When we did our roundtable on the biggest MMORPGs in 2022, I included Albion Online among them, and I stand by that inclusion. Regardless...

Fight or Kite: Warspear Online is a retro MMO that left me asking questions – mainly, ‘why?’

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I absolutely love and adore retro and retro-inspired games - games from the 8-bit era are my bread and butter. The NES was my...
Red means dead.

Wisdom of Nym: Where Final Fantasy XIV’s tutorials really fall down

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I don't think there's really a question to be asked about whether or not Final Fantasy XIV wants new players to join the game....

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