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Perfect Ten: How The Burning Crusade changed World of Warcraft forever
We're kind of thinking about the first World of Warcraft expansion around these parts this week. No particular reason, especially in my case; I'm not...
Grinding Gear Games collects Path of Exile 2 reveals ahead of April 8 livestream, doesn’t see beta until 2022
As we've reported, this coming Thursday, April 8th, will have a new livestream for Path of Exile, which will showcase a new look at...
Ramen VR CEO talks about Zenith’s combat, social features, world scale, and potential to ‘set a tone’
With "early bird" alpha set to arrive next month for the VR MMORPG Zenith, there's plenty for Ramen VR CEO Andy Tsen to talk...
Wisdom of Nym: The experimental nature of Final Fantasy XIV’s Blue Mage
One of my half-serious predictions during the initial batch of predictions for Final Fantasy XIV's big reveal showcase was that we'd learn about a...
DreamWorld promises an ‘infinite open world MMO,’ seeks $10K on Kickstarter
DreamWorld Realities, Inc. says its new MMO, DreamWorld, is "the last game you'll ever play," and we're not sure whether that's a threat, but...
New World’s latest alpha update adds Ebonscale Reach, flags all gear BOE or BOP
Amazon Games' New World is inching toward its new-new launch with a new patch unleashed on the alpha. The update includes the brand-new level...
New World sets the scene for its Ebonscale Reach endgame location with a lore post
The last thing we heard out of New World was from this past February, and that was to let players know that the game's...
Path of Exile’s upcoming nerfs to Harvest crafting sets the community on fire
According to the devs of Path of Exile, the crafting mechanics introduced in the Harvest league, even after adjustments made in update 3.13.0, made...
Massively Overthinking: Picking the ‘wrong’ MMORPG class
Last month, the MMORPG subreddit slept on a good thread about picking classes in MMOs. Let's wake this sucker up. "Am I the only...
Vague Patch Notes: The sneering elitism of the MMO term ‘welfare epics’
A few weeks ago, I saw an MMO player unironically complaining about "welfare epics" here in 2021. This is basically the equivalent of saying,...
Casually Classic: How Burning Crusade revolutionized WoW questing
While it's been a blast stepping back into an era where I can re-experience World of Warcraft as it once was, playing WoW Classic...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s forced grouping serves an important purpose
It's not exactly a secret, but just in case you didn't know this, Final Fantasy XIV has dungeons that are absolutely necessary to progress...
WoW Factor: Will most WoW Classic players genuinely move on to The Burning Crusade?
So as much praise as I had for the WoW Classic side of the World of Warcraft equation last week, there's something that was interesting as...
Dark Age of Camelot plans Catch Up in Calendonia fast-leveling event, Ultima Online previews Publish 110 and New Legacy’s map
Broadsword's antique MMORPGs are still chugging along, both with news of note this week.
In Dark Age of Camelot, players are being invited for a...
Not So Massively: A eulogy for Anthem and Defiance
Last week was a bloodbath. In a single day, we saw Electronic Arts consign one game to eternal maintenance mode, and Gamigo announced closures...
Choose My Adventure: In search of RvR in WAR Return of Reckoning; first steps in Darkfall Rise of Agon
The Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning has effectively transformed into me doing two games at once for Choose My Adventure. Let me explain.
First, I...
BlizzConline 2021: Everything we learned from the Diablo Q&A
With the Diablo II remaster hot on everyone's minds and still lots to talk about regarding Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal, there were lots...
LOTRO producer Q&A: Legendary item revamp, closed world transfers, difficulty sliders, and more
Executive Producer Rob Ciccolini joined the Friday Lord of the Rings Online livestream this week to do a seat-of-his-pants Q&A with fans who showed...
Vague Patch Notes: The challenge of the average MMO player
Pick an MMO, any MMO you know pretty well. Pick an MMO where you have a good sense of how much content there is...
Temtem confirms new islands and tutorial tweaks for final release
Temtem still has some work to do before it leaves early access, and a bit of information about some of that planned work was...
