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Desert Oasis: A guide to open PvP and grindspot etiquette in the world of Black Desert

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Back in my classic Guild Wars days, I was so happy to have the scrimmage system. It was a great way to solve arguments....

LOTRO Legendarium: The first year of LOTRO’s operation

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It was April 24th, 2007. World of Warcraft players were deep into The Burning Crusade, SOE had just launched Vanguard, and the indie MMO...

Lawful Neutral: Mr. Krabs’ Wacky Bucks and currency in online games

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I used to watch Spongebob religiously. I loved the days when I could put on Nickelodeon and have Spongebob on for hours. One of...

The Soapbox: The counterproductiveness of limited-time content in online games

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While thoroughly enjoying playing Astroneer's special event in honor of Apollo 11's moon landing 50th anniversary that's happening now through August 31st, I was...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG zones of all time

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I once heard it said that a popular studio - I think it was Blizzard - made it a point of asking prospective developers...
Go pew.

Vague Patch Notes: Keeping it simple, oversimplification, and MMO design

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People who have read my work for a while know that I really like tabletop roleplaying, and I have copies of two of my...

Perfect Ten: Great MMOs that will run just fine on your old computer

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The other day a friend was telling me that he used to play EverQuest Online Adventures very regularly back in the day, but fell...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Why Guild Wars 2 is the ideal starter MMO

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When I met my wife, she was a console gamer, but she had never played an MMO. She was interested in giving some of...

Jukebox Heroes: The best of FFXIV Shadowbringers’ soundtrack

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I don't see a lot of chatter about it, but from talking with some of my Final Fantasy XIV-playing friends, Stormblood was at best...
Level out.

Storyboard: Never forget that all MMO lore is made up

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Let's take a trip back to the dewy slopes of June 2006, when Chris Metzen addressed the question of how the lore of the...
Oh my.

Into the Super-verse: A possible glimpse into City of Heroes 2

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In 2010, popular video game network MTV noted that NCsoft had filed an interesting trademark for a possible City of Heroes 2. While companies...

MMO Cartographer: Riders of Icarus is a very tame MMORPG

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I have a few vices, and one of them is a mild to moderate obsession with game pets and mounts. I am pretty sure...
kaboom

Vague Patch Notes: Datamining, leaks, unforced errors, and messaging

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So now that Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers has been released, basically everyone playing the game has completely forgotten that the expansion actually prompted some...

Lawful Neutral: Dance studios, canvas bags, and ‘false advertising’ in the MMO industry

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As I was writing our Lawful Neutral expose of Nerd Kingdom a few weeks ago, I was pretty bothered by the conduct of the...
Who could have seen this coming.

Vague Patch Notes: Why live MMOs struggle to onboard new players

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There are, at the time I write this, two basic approaches for getting new players up to speed in existing MMOs. Both of them...
It's fine, everything is fine, this is fine.

Perfect Ten: Reasons why I quit your MMORPG

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We have all been there with subscription MMORPGs, where we go to unsubscribe and after a mild guilt trip, the cancellation screen asks us...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Living World is a barrier to entry

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I have really liked Guild Wars 2’s story in the last few years. Quite honestly, I wasn’t crazy about a lot of the base...

Not So Massively: Gaming genre elitism isn’t a good look on anyone

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As I noted when I first took over the Not So Massively column this past spring, we live in a time of great change...

Massively Overthinking: Do you even *like* MMO expansions?

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This seems like an absurd question on its face, right? MMO players are supposed to like MMO expansions. They're progress. They're content. They're fresh...

Massively Overthinking: Always be achievin’ (in MMOs)

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A while back, my husband and I were idly chatting about MMO achievements. Neither one of us is much of an achievement hunter, or...

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