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The Daily Grind: How many scams will it take before MMO players stop falling for it?

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A couple of years back, MOP's Eliot wrote a lovely thinkpiece about MMO scams. He pointed out that it's genuinely hard to tell incredibly...
Yeah, this is a thing.

WoW Factor: Flights Rising, a speculative WoW expansion exercise

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The Dragon Isles are quite the storied location in World of Warcraft in that it's easy to pull them out and dust them off whenever...
WRONG KIND OF SHINE

The Daily Grind: What’s a big MMO update everyone loved that you don’t?

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So there's a big update for an MMO you like, or you liked in the past, or whatever. It's an update everyone thinks is...

Pokemon Go’s Johto Event adds twist to shadow issue, plus new Community Day dates revealed

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While we're still waiting for Pokemon Go's hourly pokemon spawns for February 26th's Johto Tour event, Niantic released a surprising update concerning the Masterwork...

The Game Archaeologist: Dark Eyes, a forgotten Japanese MMO from 1999

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For a country that was the epicenter of video games (and, in many ways, still is), Japan never quite latched onto the MMORPG genre...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: What I expect from MMO character cosmetics

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There are many reasons to be deeply cynical about the sterile, lifeless morass that appears to be what people like Mark Zuckerberg see as...

The Daily Grind: What are the most inconsequential pet peeves you hold against MMOs?

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When it comes to the topic of pet peeves in gaming, I think there are certainly many valid categories that are deserving of ire,...

Jukebox Heroes: Highlights from Lost Ark’s soundtrack

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It's been a shameful while since I last delivered a Jukebox Heroes column to you, but what better occasion is there for a revival...

Why I Play: Examining why Lost Ark has me so hooked

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Lost Ark has hooked me pretty deeply. I’m just over 30 levels and five or so days into the game right now, which sometimes...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best boats as of 2022?

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In fewer than two weeks, Guild Wars 2 is getting something we've never had before in the game: boats. In fact, you might even...

Massively Uplifting: MMOs show true love through helping kids, planting trees

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Attitudes and thoughts about Valentine's Day vary widely, from crass commercialism to idyllic romanticism to complete indifference. But the fact remains that the spirit...
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Wisdom of Nym: Gaming the system in Final Fantasy XIV

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All right, so we aren't going to have a new live letter until Friday, which means that now I'm going to actually pick down...

Not So Massively: The Anacrusis is nowhere near ready for launch

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The Anacrusis is a four-player co-op shooter intended to be a spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead. I was never a particularly big L4D...
Yep, we're going here, too.

The Daily Grind: Do you take a lot of screenshots in your MMOs?

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I spent a lot of time training to take good screenshots in Final Fantasy XIV specifically because I knew I would want that for this...

The Daily Grind: Do you make your MMO characters look a little too perfect?

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Whether an MMO gives me six options or six hundred when it comes to picking a character's looks, I admit that it's awfully hard...
AHHHH

WoW Factor: Winds of Change, a speculative WoW expansion exercise

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We still have no idea what the next expansion for World of Warcraft will look like, which is kind of absurd. We didn't even have...
Donkeys cannot use horse gear.

The Daily Grind: Do you make use of ‘mule’ characters in MMORPGs?

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Back in the long long ago, the concept of a mule in an MMO - that is, a character you rolled but didn't really...

February’s Nintendo Direct shows Nintendo further embracing multiplayer online play

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No Man's Sky coming to the Switch wasn't the only big announcement at February 9th's Nintendo Direct. Nintendo will be further beefing up Mario Kart 8 with...
Back when it all began.

Vague Patch Notes: Looking back on the MassivelyOP magic, seven years in

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As of tomorrow, we're seven years out from the launch of this site. This means that we're actually into the point when I've been...
You are bad and you should feel bad.

The Daily Grind: Do you ever hope for an MMO project’s failure?

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It wouldn't have been long ago that my personal answer to this question would have been a flat and unambiguous "no" because even when...

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