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WoW Factor: The pros and cons of stripping timer requirements from World of Warcraft’s Mythic+ runs
So the other day, an interesting topic came up in our feeds: Apparently, at least if you go by the survey, World of Warcraft's...
Casually Classic: Putting a cap on WoW Classic’s crazy 2024 run
While it got overshadowed by World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary this year, WoW Classic's fifth birthday was a thing that happened as well. It...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Path of Exile 2 is adding inter-map fast-travel and a bunch of buffs and nerfs in its next update
As I type this, more than half of Path of Exile 2's peak Steam concurrency was playing the game - well over 300,000 humans...
Vitae Aeternum: Analyzing New World’s 2025 ‘living roadmap’
Covering New World's new "living roadmap" for 2025 seems like something I should have gotten to sooner, but in my defence I've been battling...
Wisdom of Nym: Reflecting on Final Fantasy XIV’s custom delivery clients
Tomorrow's patch will mark the latest in the long line of custom delivery clients in Final Fantasy XIV, but oddly enough I don't think...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2024
You know, this traditional end-of-the-year roundtable shouldn't be a thing. We've been doing this such a long time and getting so much coverage on...
Brighter Shores AMA confirms updates for combat, professions, and co-op play are en route
It looks as if the devs of Fen Research have plenty of updates planned for Brighter Shores, at least according to an AMA the...
Path of Exile 2 plans to change dodge rolling, rewards, and checkpoints as it nerfs an over-performing build
Path of Exile 2 is in early access, so obviously things are going to change; it's just a question of whether or not those...
Fantastic Pixel Castle shares new prototype gameplay and dev plans for its Ghost MMO
Fantastic Pixel Castle's upcoming MMO codenamed Ghost (aka Greg Street presents Ghostboi Adventures Online starring Bobby Battle Crab™) is wrapping up its year of...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best fashion in 2024?
Fashion is the true endgame of MMORPGs, unless you've fully embraced your inner murderhobo. And personally, I have a very specific aesthetic in MMOs....
Massively Overthinking: The top three MMOs we played in 2024
I know from experience that when I list out the MMOs I want to play in a given year, it is an aspirational list....
Fallout 76 just launched its ‘most demanding content’ ever with the Gleaming Depths raid
Remember earlier this fall when Bethsoft surprised everyone by announcing raids for Fallout 76? Well, you can fight over whether these four-person content runs...
Elder Scrolls Online is giving away class style packs for its anniversary – but there’s a catch
As Elder Scrolls Online pushes into the final month of its year-long 10th anniversary celebration, it has one more promo for players... or at...
New World has enlisted rapper T-Pain and other influencers for a ‘T-Party’ Aeternum stream today
If you can remember back to the fall of 2021 when Amazon's New World first launched, it was pretty bewildering: Amazon had New World...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MOP stories of 2024
As you're reading this, it's Thanksgiving night, and the end-of-the-year insanity is about to begin. You're going to be treated to a whole ton...
Perfect Ten: Lessons from unsuccessful MMORPGs that I wish designers would learn
I have been writing about this genre for far too long now and seen far too many games with genuinely good elements completely fail...
New World drops a roadmap, season 7 outline, and new ‘seasonal worlds’ plan
Our anxious calls for a roadmap have finally been answered: Amazon has finally granted New World fans a peek into the future of the...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s Crossroads story beats are decidedly odd
While I definitely have enjoyed the content we have gotten in Final Fantasy XIV's latest patch so far, it's also very decidedly an x.1...
Perfect Ten: The allure of a fresh start MMO server
This week, WoW Classic activated another set of "fresh start" servers -- something that it's been doing pretty much annually since 2019. Yet even...
