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The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMO beginner zone?

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When it comes to MMO nostalgia, is there anything greater than the places where you first stepped foot into the game? Beginner zones not...

Choose My Adventure: The Secret World proves to be a familiar yet lonesome place

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It has been a very long time, old friend. Yet still, here you are, simply existing. Nesting in silence. Disassociated, forgotten, but still just...

The Daily Grind: What’s the quickest way to derail an MMO expansion?

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I think that if I polled veteran MMORPG players about expansions that bombed, they'd probably point to Star Wars Galaxies' Trials of Obi-Wan and...
Sad elk in snow.

LOTRO Legendarium: Why people bounce off Lord of the Rings Online

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Any time that you are deeply invested in an MMORPG, it's perhaps one of the most disheartening and frustrating experiences to watch your friends...
Voyage onward.

Wisdom of Nym: Everything we know (so far) about Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 6.1

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Here we are with our first live letter for the start of a new patch cycle in the bag! Are you excited? I'm excited....

Fight or Kite: Lost Ark’s PvP is a well-designed experience for Lost Ark players

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Lost Ark was a game that may as well have been vaporware for so many years. It plays basically like a Diablo game, although...

The Daily Grind: Is the MMO market too segmented?

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Back in November 2021's Activision-Blizzard quarterly investor call, Blizzard's Mike Ybarra spoke about the company's vision for the Diablo franchise. He essentially said that...
Here we are again.

The Daily Grind: What’s your biggest fear about your favorite MMO?

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We all have things that worry us about our favorite MMOs. It's natural. You worry that another update might break the things you enjoy...
There's... yeah, there's a lot.

The Daily Grind: How much do you take advantage of MMO XP events?

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It feels like every weekend, one MMORPG or another is running some sort of bonus XP event. This sort of thing whips the community...
Unseen.

WoW Factor: Beyond the Spires, a speculative WoW expansion exercise

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Let's get something weird going here for the last of these speculative exercises. I could keep doing this for a while now, if we're being...

MMO Cartographer: Exploring ‘tiny MMO’ Book of Travels

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On its website, Might and Delight describes Book of Travels as a "Tiny Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game," but that is an inadequate description of this...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO that you’re not playing?

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The reality of the MMORPG genre is that even when the genre was small, there weren't enough hours in the day to play everything....
Lock'd

Vague Patch Notes: So why do MMO developers gender lock?

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Last week's Vague Patch Notes on MMO lore and its impact on design decisions produced a lot of good comments along with a smattering...
Ooh, it's meat time.

The Daily Grind: Have you ever bought something in an MMO cash shop you regret?

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Ah, buyer's remorse, how sweet you taste. That moment when you've put down your money, you're examining your purchase, and that thought runs through...

Choose My Adventure: Experiencing Zenith’s Blademaster and the overall sensation of VR MMO gaming

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So, the Blademaster's way more fun. Rolling a new character in Zenith ended up being a great decision all in all because the Blademaster class...
I'm the villain, too?

World of Warcraft reveals Anduin’s ultimate fate in a new raid cinematic

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All right. If you need to be told this from the header, this post and this cinematic is into El Spoilero territory. These are...

The Daily Grind: What mouse and keyboard do you use for MMO play?

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Last week, my keyboard died. Well, it didn't die so much as "was brutally murdered by kids spilling juice all over it," but the...

Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go March and Season of Alola

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It's officially March now, and in Pokemon Go that means we'll be experiencing both a new month of content and shift seasons, so say goodbye to that...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Spoiler-free first impressions of Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons

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Remember when "Cantha confirmed" was a Guild Wars 2 meme? I, along with many other players, never thought we'd actually see Cantha in the...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO suffers from the worst inflation?

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Last week, I got a pingback on my old personal blog: Another site had linked to my 2011 article about inflation in five MMOs...

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