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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite healing style in an MMO?

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If I could only pick one healing style forever in an MMO, it's anything that hooks me up with a Grid-like healing tool. That...

Not So Massively: Nothing can prepare you for Craftopia’s weirdness

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While I like many survival mechanics, I've struggled to get into actual survival games. Despite that, I've kept one eye on the early access...
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Wisdom of Nym: Deep-diving Final Fantasy XIV’s new adventurer plates

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One of the things that I think is important to note about Final Fantasy XIV's new adventurer plates is that they are in an...
This is not that story.

The Daily Grind: Why did you leave the last MMO guild you left?

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Earlier this spring, Justin penned a Global Chat quoting a blogger who discussed the dissolution of an MMO guild. I don't think the working...

EVE Fanfest 2022: Fanfest attendees have already begun testing positive for COVID

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(We've updated this post at the end with the latest counts and info.) EVE Fanfest 2022 in Reykjavik is barely over, and the first cases...
Still.

The Daily Grind: What’s your ideal ‘throwback’ MMO?

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So I was recently doing a piece about Ethyrial and noting its promise of being a throwback to the golden days of MMOs, deliberately evoking...

EVE Fanfest 2022: The EVE Online universe FPS is still in development

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EVE Online developer CCP Games has had its eye on the first-person-shooter genre for over a decade at this point, starting with its PS3-exclusive...

LOTRO Legendarium: Remembering 15 amazing years of Lord of the Rings Online

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Server performance issues aside, Lord of the Rings Online's 15th anniversary has been a smashing success. It's been far greater an event than I...
ADVENTURE

The Daily Grind: What MMO pets are you rocking these days?

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Recently in Lord of the Rings Online, the game's 15th anniversary added lil' corgis to the game world for the first time as vanity...
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Vague Patch Notes: The negatives of MMORPG rogue servers

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Last week, we began a discussion about the ups and downs of rogue servers in the MMO space, by which I actually mean we...

EVE Fanfest 2022: EVE Online is getting a Spanish client

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EVE Online has been an intensely international game throughout its lifetime, with significant audiences across the US, Europe, and Russia. Most players are stuck...

EVE Fanfest 2022: EVE Online puts spreadsheets in your spreadsheets

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While EVE Online's nickname of "spreadsheets in space" was intended as a joke, the developers behind the game are really leaning into it. CEO...
Plue Brotocol.

The Daily Grind: Do you still try to make new friends in MMOs?

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Today's Daily Grind was inspired by a Reddit thread from a user who said he was experiencing a bout of loneliness in MMOs, essentially...

Wandering Wraeclast: Path of Exile’s Sentinel update enhances endgame with new passives and mob modifiers

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Earlier this afternoon, Grinding Gear Games announced Path of Exile's foray into in-game "pets" (with a twist!) coming with the new Sentinel league that...

Wandering Wraeclast: Pets pounce into Path of Exile’s new Sentinel league

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Two things I absolutely love in games are housing and pets. And having both just makes a game better! Path of Exile already has...
True strength is inside. But leveling should really help.

WoW Factor: Is dragon riding in World of Warcraft Dragonflight borrowed power?

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So there's a whole lot of stuff to talk about right now when it comes to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight; that's not under debate....
Aw, that's boring.

The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs you want a mobile spinoff from?

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I feel like Warcraft Arclight Rumble was at once exactly what I expected from the promise of a mobile Warcraft title and yet simultaneously disappointing. Like,...

Perfect Ten: Why we need more post-apocalyptic MMOs

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Ever since playing the original Wasteland back in the late '80, I've had a high fascination with post-apocalyptic settings. Yet it's not been the...

Fight or Kite: CRSED FOAD aka Cuisine Royale is a mouthful of an ‘MMO’

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In my ever-widening search for a game that sticks with me for longer than a few weeks I have stumbled across a battle royale...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best way for MMO studios to handle reveals?

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One of the follow-up discussions after the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight reveal the other day didn't concern the content of the talk so much...

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