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The Daily Grind: What type of fashion does your MMO characters wear?
As the truth-in-comedy joke goes, the real endgame for MMORPGs is fashion wars. Whichever player creates the best cosmetic outfit from collected pieces and...
The Stream Team: Healing for actual humans for the first time in Final Fantasy XIV
MOP's Chris has achieved a fairly large number of things in his time in Final Fantasy XIV. He's beaten stories, cleared raids, managed to...
Vitae Aeternum: Previewing New World’s first season and updated 2023 roadmap
Last week, Amazon Games invited members of the press to a presentation where it unveiled its plans for a new seasonal content model for...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the ideal content cadence for an MMORPG in 2023?
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 revealed a major shake-up of its content delivery cadence. Studio ArenaNet suggested that the traditional living world cadence...
Albion Online’s Beyond the Veil Patch 4 is live with ZH/IN language support and combat balancing
Yesterday saw a major planned outage for Albion Online as studio Sandbox Interactive pulled the servers offline for patch 4 and preparations for the...
Destiny 2 plots adjustments to seasons, challenge, and activities to fight against perceived predictability
According to game director Joe Blackburn, Destiny 2 updates have become a bit too consistent, leading to the sense that updates are predictable and...
War of Dragnorox talks UE5 upgrade, monetization, and ‘dangerous’ and ‘highly intellectual’ combat
Back in December 2021, we reported on War of Dragnorox, a developing sandbox MMORPG from Triune Studios that hung its hat on having "dynamic...
Tamriel Infinium: 18 activities to do at max level in Elder Scrolls Online
As they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and so it's been with the past six months between me and Elder Scrolls Online....
The MOP Up: SMITE delivers a ‘bonus’ update full of nerfs
SMITE delivered a "bonus update" to the MOBA's community this past week with several downward adjustments to various features. Speed buff got nerfed "by...
Open world mobile MMO Hero of Aethric leaves early access with its Towers of Olympia update
Last week we reported on the development of Hero of Aethric, the open world mobile MMORPG from Northern Forge, the studio behind the mobile...
V Rising’s long-delayed first major update will finally arrive in May as a free expansion
So Stunlock Studios has good news and bad news for V Rising fans today. The good news is that it's talking more about its...
Hearthstone’s Mercenaries mode will get one last major patch that adds new mercs, mechanics, and endgame
If you're a regular player of the Mercenaries game mode in Hearthstone, then we have good news and bad news: The game is going...
The Daily Grind: Do you leave MMOs when your friends do?
MOP's Carlo was chatting about the modern endgame situation in World of Warcraft the other day and I had a sharp realization that I...
Massively Overthinking: What MMORPG content requires the most skill – and why?
Back in January, there was an inflammatory thread on the MMORPG subreddit that argued that anyone using rotation mods in endgame MMO content was...
WoW Factor: The state of World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight, two months in
On Monday, I talked with MOP's Bree about the idea of doing a piece this week about how World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was doing...
The Stream Team: Feeding the altoholic need in City of Heroes Homecoming
It's a long understood fact that creating alts for City of Heroes is the true endgame, and MOP's Chris is going to partake in...
World of Warcraft 10.0.7 returns players to the Forbidden Reach, proliferates the Monk class to more races
Yesterday, we speculated that with Activision-Blizzard's Q4 financials looming and bad news for Blizzard happening pretty much every day now, we'd likely start seeing...
Lord of the Rings Online’s 2023 roadmap teases Corsairs of Umbar expansion theme
Earlier this week, we remarked on the MOP Podcast how it was to see Daybreak's EverQuest and EverQuest II roadmaps - and wouldn't it...
The Daily Grind: Do you have any regrets about your past behavior in MMOs?
A few weeks ago, Justin and I answered a question on the MOP Podcast about bad habits engendered by MMOs, and both of us...
The Cycle Frontier announces March 29 launch date for Season 3, the end of server wipes, and economy changes
When a new season begins in the PvPvE survival shooter The Cycle: Frontier, change is already expected. However, when Season 3 begins on Wednesday,...
