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Perfect Ten: 10 small Guild Wars 2 details that make it special

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I find that there's this special window of time that happens when you return to an old favorite MMO that shouldn't be missed. It's...

Jukebox Heroes: Six great EverQuest II expansion tunes

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When's the last time you stepped back and realized just how big and expansive some of your MMORPGs have become over the decades of...
FEAR ME FOR I AM IMPORTANT

Vague Patch Notes: MMO events are not for the high-level playerbase

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Let me start with a statement of fact: I actually really like limited-time events in MMORPGs. I don't like them as a means of...
Zone!

Perfect Ten: 10 things I really dislike about Final Fantasy XIV

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Sometimes, when I have a series of columns planned, I start off by saying, "Hey, here's a series of columns I plan." And sometimes...

LOTRO Legendarium: Why flying would have ruined LOTRO’s Middle-earth

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Despite the title up there, this column isn't really about flying. I'm just getting that out of the way right here. I actually have...
Ogre, without layers

Design Mockument: In which we do not design World of Warcraft 2

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Over the course of my professional writing career on this site and that site we used to run before AOL screwed us all over,...
aw hell

Vague Patch Notes: The three kinds of sunset in the MMO space

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Not all sunsets are the same, no matter how much you may like a given game. This is one of the things that tends...
KITTY!

Tamriel Infinium: How Elder Scrolls Online’s quests go above and beyond the MMO norm

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There are some MMOs you play because of and some you play in spite of, if you catch my drift. These titles have great...

Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best

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When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...

Tamriel Infinium: 18 activities to do at max level in Elder Scrolls Online

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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....
What.

Vague Patch Notes: Diversions are what makes the MMO

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I am going to put forth a theory today in the Vague Patch Notes column. It is potentially an odd theory, and as sometimes...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: 10 things I really dislike about Final Fantasy XI

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You don't have to dig very far to find my articles saying nice things about Final Fantasy XI. I say them often. I'd be...

Some Assembly Required: My journey through the housing system of Final Fantasy XIV

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It took me years - literal years - but I landed a personal house in Final Fantasy XIV. Not an apartment, not a room...

Perfect Ten: 10 dead MMOs that should be revived for a second chance

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I have always felt that it's such an enormous waste of everything when a live MMORPG is sunsetted and access to it is gone...

Vitae Aeternum: Obsessing over New World’s population numbers is a waste of time

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New World is a bit unique in that it is the only major Western MMORPG that is playable only through Steam. The others are...
But what awaits...

Vague Patch Notes: Floaty, samey, and janky – a treasury of MMO terms for bad combat

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Any time you bring up The Secret World or Secret World Legends's bland, floaty combat, at least one person is going to chime in...
Fighty fight fight.

Perfect Ten: Tutorial topics every MMO really needs to cover

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Tutorials are important in MMOs. No MMO has a great one, unfortunately. I don't just mean in the cases where returning players could use...

Perfect Ten: Why it’s better than ever to be an MMO fan in 2023

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Welcome to 2023! You probably didn't need that heads-up, but you're getting it even still. I'm quite excited about the year to come in...
Crucial.

Vague Patch Notes: Stop taking your released MMOs back to the drawing board

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This is not a column about Kingshunt, but it is. It's not a column about Crowfall or Deathverse: Let it Die or even Crucible....
ow

Vague Patch Notes: Embracing limited-time content modes in MMOs

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Today's column was inspired by a discussion in work chat about limited-time game modes - specifically, the idea of something like that in World...

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