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Design Mockument: What would a Transformers MMORPG even look like?

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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...

Perfect Ten: 10 memorable MMO marketing campaigns from the genre’s past

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

Vague Patch Notes: Culture doesn’t excuse poor design choices in MMOs

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So Tarisland has heard that people don't like gender-locked classes. This is the correct feedback because gender-locked classes blow, and every game that has...
What can I say except ''you're welcome''

Perfect Ten: We’ll always have Glorbo

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Yes, folks, you've all heard the news by now about how Glorbo is finally being added into World of Warcraft. You may, of course,...

The Soapbox: Why Cryptic’s MMOs are the epitome of comfort gaming

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They say you never forget your first kiss. I honestly can't recall much about mine, but I do vividly remember the day that I...

The Soapbox: The day my son lost his first online video game to a sunset

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It was a few weeks back that I walked into our family room and saw my 14-year-old son crouched over the iPad with a...

The Soapbox: Why The Secret World really failed

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We're back with part two of my long-overdue post-mortem of The Secret World, my favourite MMORPG of all time. In the first part I...
Yo.

Vague Patch Notes: Whaling is a death spiral, especially in MMOs

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Here we are again with another one of my "let's put down some important industry notes" columns, and this time we're talking about whaling....

The Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs and online worlds with super cozy vibes

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In this age of increased anxiety and friction, there's a natural desire to retreat into safe spaces. And yet not all of us have...
Finite.

WoW Factor: Infinite (Dragonflight) frustration and the time-travel problem in World of Warcraft

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Sometimes, you just gotta rant about lore. And that's the case this week because World of Warcraft has finally wrapped up the long-standing plot...
I TRUSTED YOU

Perfect Ten: 10 things I really dislike about Star Wars The Old Republic

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So we're all talking about Star Wars The Old Republic lately, and hey, that's understandable. We have not come to the end of the...
Geblons

Vague Patch Notes: Which players count in an MMO?

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When I first started playing Final Fantasy XI some two decades ago, I went in with no illusions about one thing that seemed clear...
Nothing else has worked.

WoW Factor: And now we ruin the Trading Post

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Those of you who have read my work in WoW Factor for a while will know that I tend to be very cards-on-the-table about...
THE MIDDLE!

Vague Patch Notes: The power of the middle bit in MMOs

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I knew that Tales of Arise wasn't really working for me like its immediate predecessor when I started kind of avoiding combat. Now, to a...

Perfect Ten: Why SWTOR is still a lot of fun to play today

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In a time of great uncertainty and some short-term chaos as Star Wars: The Old Republic moves from BioWare to Broadsword, one might assume...

The Soapbox: A belated The Secret World post-mortem

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This weeks marks the eleventh anniversary of the launch of The Secret World. While the game is still playable (for those with existing accounts),...
Well, this was a little on the nose, wasn't it?

The Daily Grind: How do *you* pronounce ‘MMORPG’?

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OK, so here's a fun Daily Grind for a holiday when most of our readers aren't at work! Let's talk about how to pronounce...

LOTRO Legendarium: How to avoid burning out in LOTRO (and other MMOs)

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When Lord of the Rings Online kicked off its head start in April 2007, little did I know that I was logging in for...

Lawful Neutral: Freedom of speech in MMOs

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I don't think a day goes by without gamers ranting on Reddit or Twitter or forums or comment sections about how their freedom of...
It's a NICE DOOR.

Massively Overthinking: Why don’t MMOs try harder to foster great guilds?

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MOP reader Mahaf1089 posed an interesting question beneath a WoW Factor column earlier this month, one that clearly resonated with our readers because it...

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