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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...

In a previous column, I wrote about how gender-locking classes is bad. This is because it is bad. It is bad in all conceivable...

You can't swing your arms at this point without hearing about "the metaverse" in some capacity, which is supposedly the reason why Facebook changed...

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...

Back when Guild Wars 2 announced the Bladesworn elite spec for Warriors, I had a little fun with the idea because... well, let's not...

Good afternoon, readers. Do you remember not so long ago when I talked about the fact that MMOs are perfectly fine as just games...

Well! It has been a week, that's for darn sure. And amidst everything else going on this particular week, it would've been easy to...

So the other day, we were reminded that Squadron 42 - which was supposed to be released back in 2014, if you can believe that...

It probably hasn't escaped anyone who has been reading my writing over the past several years that I have something of a vendetta against...

So there were some surprises when Fractured announced that it had secured a publishing deal with Gamigo, or rather that Gamigo announced that Fractured was...

It's well past time for me to get something off my chest. MMOs are dumb. MMOs are full of weird stuff. This genre is weird...

So Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen doesn't want to be seen as a niche game. Visionary Realms' recent interview saying so was clearly bewildering to...

There is a certain stripe of Final Fantasy XIV fan that is exceedingly prevalent at this point, and that type is the rigid partisan... against World of...

This is going to be a little more ranty than usual. Apologies for that in advance, but... well, we're talking about NFTs. NFTs are...

So for some reason right now, I'm thinking a lot about expansions. It might be because we've got Final Fantasy XIV's next major expansion in...

Here is my hard-hitting New World review: I haven't played it and don't have any urgent impetus to do so, but maybe it's great. It...

One of the intentions of the Vague Patch Notes column is to have a place to share things that we're going to need to...

The other night, I found myself inevitably funneled into a mistake. There wasn't much I could do about it, sadly; Guild Wars 2 had decided...

One of the nice things about Final Fantasy XIV is that it is explicitly designed by someone who thinks that it's not just reasonable but expected...

We have talked before in this column about lies and the lying liars who tell them. Those rotten, rotten liars. But the other day,...