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Perfect Ten: 10 MMO haunted houses to explore – if you dare….
Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s original Manderville Man
There are some divisive characters in Final Fantasy XIV, but in some ways Hildibrand Helidor Maximilian Manderville stands above all of them - not...
LOTRO Legendarium: Four options for character leveling in LOTRO
One of the unsung benefits of maturing MMORPGs is that they generally offer far more options for leveling and adventuring than what was present...
WoW Factor: Was the faction split ever good for World of Warcraft?
Before I had played World of Warcraft and back in the time when I allowed myself to speculate more freely on what games would...
Four Winds: The refinement of item enhance systems in MMOs, from Granado Espada to Black Desert
Itemization is a foundational system in many modern MMOs. After players reach the level cap, item levels largely drive the measurable progression of a...
Vague Patch Notes: Finger-pointing in the MMO and multiplayer games industry
I know for a fact that I've already made the joke at this point about how Babylon's Fall just straight-up Babylon Fell, but the...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that went through complete technical clownshows
I've gone on record multiple times to state that when you get right down to it, MMOs look pretty darn complicated. There are a...
Vague Patch Notes: Why are mobile MMOs Like That?
If you have read my writing a bunch over the years, you have probably observed me mentioning how much I like Final Fantasy Tactics...
Working As Intended: My 25 years of Ultima Online
Twenty-five years ago my boyfriend, Paul, and I walked into a shop to find a new game to play together. He picked up this...
Vague Patch Notes: Mandatory content and game design in MMOs
Let me tell you about my second roommate in college. He was named Kyle, and he was benefiting from the fact that I had...
Perfect Ten: 10 Final Fantasy XIV musical tracks that absolutely slap
Everyone knows that people who play Final Fantasy XIV will not shut up about the game's music. This includes me. I will not shut...
Casually Classic: The Death Knight starter experience is still the best WoW ever did
Recently, along with what seemed like half the population of the globe, I rolled up a brand-new Death Knight in WoW Classic to take...
Vitae Aeternum: The New Secret World
Comparisons between New World and The Secret World have existed pretty much since the earliest teases of NW. It's what put the game on...
WoW Factor: Just be honest about what WoW Classic is now
So here's something funny to consider: No matter what happens, Blizzard has collectively backed itself into a corner with World of Warcraft expansions over...
Vague Patch Notes: The perpetual MMO crowdfunding engine
Do me a favor right now and navigate over to the Star Citizen webpage. It's possible that this has wildly changed in the time...
Perfect Ten: 10 strategies to avoid getting fleeced in F2P MMOs
"Nothing is ever truly free," my grizzled Uncle Trigger once told me. "So you got to pay for that there air! Pony up, boy!"
While...
Vague Patch Notes: Queues do not tell the story of an MMO’s success
It's time to talk about queues to log in to a game, and you know what game we have to talk about in this...
Perfect Ten: An MMO sunset tour for 2022 to date
MMO sunsets can be weird. I am never happy when a game that people love goes away. It always represents a lot of lost...
The Game Archaeologist: The legacy of Ultima Online
Last week in The Game Archaeologist, we traced the history of Ultima Online’s origin, development, and testing -- not to mention one pesky in-game...
WoW Factor: What makes World of Warcraft in particular appealing?
I've been covering MMOs professionally for about 13 years now. That's a long while. And it's kind of strange to me that I've been...
