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When I returned to World of Warcraft Classic in 2019, I steeled myself to be vastly underwhelmed by the visuals. I'm not a graphics...

Most of us probably weren't expecting to see Diablo II once again propelled into the spotlight in the year 2021, but the BlizzCon announcement...

Believe you me, I know quite well the arguments that have been rehashed over the years about how the MMORPG genre and these online...

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...

A few weeks ago, I saw an MMO player unironically complaining about "welfare epics" here in 2021. This is basically the equivalent of saying,...

Probably the biggest question any Lord of the Rings Online player has to ask him or herself is whether to go subscription or free-to-play...

A few weeks back, I talked about why a given MMO might have failed even when it possessed good qualities. It was a response...

Having finally clicked hard with Elder Scrolls Online this winter, I find that it's difficult to restrain myself from gushing about pleasant discoveries (and...

Last week was a bloodbath. In a single day, we saw Electronic Arts consign one game to eternal maintenance mode, and Gamigo announced closures...

I sized him up from where he sat across from me. He was intelligent, that much I could tell just at a glance -...

Since beginning my Elite Dangerous journey, I’ve been impressed and delighted to find many community-supported tools available to aid Elite players in navigating the...

MMORPG developer Raph Koster recently put this neat article by experimental game developer Nicky Case on my radar. Case notes that common wisdom is...

Pick an MMO, any MMO you know pretty well. Pick an MMO where you have a good sense of how much content there is...

We have all been there. You've been gaming in your standard comfort MMOs when one day you hit that wall of burnout. You feel...

Lord of the Rings Online has so much to offer players, from an expansive world to thousands of quests to, um, chicken soccer. But...

To the surprise (or at least disappointment) of many, it turns out that some players in Elite: Dangerous found an exciting and fresh way to...

Guilds! They're remarkably consistent features of MMOs because developers have long realized that they are an unparalleled engine for creating drama, arguments, and recriminations....

Probably like many of you, I have gone through the initial zones in Lord of the Rings Online more times than I can count...

Last week, there was a provocative discussion on the MMORPG subreddit about the genre. I don't want to get tangled up in the whole...

Your mission today, should you choose to accept it, is to participate in an experiment. I want you to write up a nice long...