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Unity has fallen. Oh, sure, the company has rolled back the worst parts of its incredibly boneheaded "give us money for your successful game"...

If we ever think of an MMO's user interface, it's either when we're getting settled into a new game or when a title decides...

Since we're busy getting a front-row seat to World of Warcraft adding the dungeon finder again, only this time it's WoW Classic, we are...

Last week's column about World of Warcraft prompted some really interesting comments that I think are worth talking about; in fact, I very nearly...

Falling into obscurity and then being completely forgotten is the nightmare of any creative artist. This tragic scenario is compounded when it comes to...

I vividly remember back when Lord of the Rings Online launched its first legendary server, Anor, in 2018. Like many of you, I got...

One of the things I've taken on multiple times in this column is the concept of gender-locked classes, which are bad, and if you...

Launch time is a difficult time for every MMO, and honestly, I have nothing but sympathy for the teams launching a new game at...

So before I start this column, I want to make something very clear: I do not for one moment, in my heart of hearts,...

You meant a lot to me when we knew one another. I wonder if you ever really understood that, or if I even communicated...

The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...

If you ever need to understand why MMORPGs today look so different from how they looked back in 1997, there are a lot of...

Once upon a time there was an MMORPG called Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. It wasn't the most popular MMO, but it did cultivate a...

Here is a very reasonable question: How many subscribers does Star Wars: The Old Republic have? Not how many players, but how many subscribers....

Maybe I'm the only one to have stopped to think about it, but a great deal of the MMOs that we enjoy are based...

A week ago, we all sounded off on the best way to save a small-to-mid-size MMO that was struggling, as prompted by a discussion...

For a long time, I have been considering this particular column just because, well, it's an obvious one. If you have a column whose...

J.R.R. Tolkien famously loved nature, and that passion seeps into his creation of Middle-earth. To him, the great outdoors was not something to be...

Everyone who has read my work here for a while knows that a Transformers MMORPG is a longstanding element of my pie-in-the-sky wishlist. This...

Believe it or not, MMOs get off easy when it comes to notorious marketing campaigns. Anything on the following list, good or bad, is...