endgame
Diablo IV outlines updates to items, stats, and classes arriving with Season of Blood
Yesterday saw another campfire chat livestream from Diablo IV, which brought on several devs to discuss a variety of updates to items, resistances, damage,...
Pax Dei discusses classless characters, consensual PvP, and grueling corpse recovery post-death
Last summer, the devs of sandbox MMO Pax Dei asked players for "patience" regarding an alpha date and promised more info about the PvE...
Vague Patch Notes: Why people can’t just ignore things they don’t want in MMORPGs
As I often do, I'm going to start this column with a bit of history. But in this particular case, it's a bit of...
Diablo IV launches on Steam alongside Season of Blood on October 17
Who had Diablo IV as the next Blizzard game to flock to Steam for more players? Probably most of us, honestly, given how the...
MMO Burnout: Non-MMOs that scratch my MMO progression grind itch
There are plenty of reasons people play MMORPGs, whether it's to experience a story (yes, those exist), run in some PvP wars, or grind...
Massively Overthinking: The impact of jump start servers in MMOs
With Chris' Choose My Adventure run on Lost Ark - specifically, on its jump-start servers - coming to a close, I thought it would...
Interview: New World’s Scot Lane on the MMO’s past, future, and upcoming dungeon finder
New World launched two years ago today. While it may have stumbled out of the gate, I believe it has since evolved into one...
Palia’s latest open beta patch scorches cooking (and cake parties) with big nerfs
It was a bit delayed this week, but Palia's 0.169 patch did indeed roll out last night, bringing with it a theme of change...
Choose My Adventure: Wrestling with disappointment, boredom, and comfort in Lost Ark’s jump start server
It was probably asking a lot of myself to cut through Lost Ark as quickly as possible so that I could get to the...
Vindictus opens up its new Hall of Fallen Knights raid in latest update
Endgame players of Vindictus hopefully have something to be pleased about as last week saw the introduction of a new raid to take on...
Vague Patch Notes: So what actually kills MMO communities?
Since we're busy getting a front-row seat to World of Warcraft adding the dungeon finder again, only this time it's WoW Classic, we are...
Massively Overthinking: Massively Overwhelming content in MMORPGs
This past weekend, I picked up my first premium house in Lord of the Rings Online after much hemming and hawing. I didn't expect...
New World offers advice for newbies, returnees, PvE, and PvP players heading into Rise of the Angry Earth
Amazon's New World has two chunks of news for players eager to head into Aeternum before the Rise of the Angry Earth expansion in...
Choose My Adventure: Exploring Lost Ark’s jump start server and a regular XP-boosted character
Last week was a close vote here in Choose My Adventure World Land slash Waffle House. The vote came down to one person casting...
The Daily Grind: What would be the perfect MMO cosmetic transmog system?
As the saying goes, the real endgame for MMORPGs is fashion wars. Everyone loves looking their best through creative wardrobe selections, after all. If...
Lost Ark’s jump-start servers arrive tomorrow with the Jump to the Endgame patch
Are you over last month's massive Lost Ark outage that kept the servers offline for a whole day following the EU region merge? With...
Choose My Adventure: Slayer time with slightly boosted XP in Lost Ark
So I kind of made a mistake in my comeback to Lost Ark. I apparently did have at least one Powerpass to burn up,...
Lost Ark’s jump start servers open up on September 13 – here are the details
Fans and followers of Lost Ark already knew that jump start servers were headed to the MMOARPG in September, but now Amazon Games has...
Global Chat: What makes an ‘MMO’ an MMO?
Pulling back to look at the very big picture of it all, Tipa at Chasing Dings asks a pretty relevant question in this ever-shifting...
Choose My Adventure: Trialing and testing in Trixion before returning to Lost Ark
I'm going to preface my return to Choose My Adventure by noting that I've had a very busy few days. It's been a good...
