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The Daily Grind: How did your early MMOs shape your expectations for the MMOs you play now?
I was chatting with MOP reader and commenter Bruno Brito a while back when something he said about player expectations in MMOs struck me....
LOTRO Legendarium: 6 tips for fun and profitable deed hunting
Just because you've hit the level cap or come to the end of available quests in Lord of the Rings Online doesn't mean you've...
WoW Factor: How World of Warcraft’s elite progression obsession hurts progression players too
Here's a statement that I think few people will disagree with:Â World of Warcraft has increasingly focused on raiding and high-end progression as the only...
Massively Overthinking: Deleting pieces of MMOs to save them
Two ideas floated across my virtual desk in recent weeks, neither directly relating to MMORPGs, but they put the nugget of an idea in...
Path of Exile’s take on Farmville blooms on June 19 with the Harvest League
After seemingly countless quarterly updates and leagues, you might think Grinding Gear Games would eventually run out of ideas for Path of Exile. Not...
Ashes of Creation partially lifts its NDA, discusses open world housing and caravans in a livestream
Things appear to be going rather swimmingly for Ashes of Creation. During the game's most recent developer livestream, the team touted an eight hour-long...
Voxelbox Boundless’ latest update is sparkling with gleambows
Spring has been busy for the blocky sandbox MMO Boundless, which is following up its April beacon reclaim patch with rainbows this week. Nope,...
WoW Factor: Impressive Influence and the ongoing half-hearted Battle for Azeroth apology
To my great disappointment and chagrin, Blizzard turned out to not catch the same winds (of wisdom) that influenced the extending of experience boosts...
Chinese World of Warcraft players beg NetEase to rescue them from RMT bot infestation
How is World of Warcraft doing in China? If one player's collected account is anything to go by, not well at all. A Chinese...
Wisdom of Nym: What awaits in Final Fantasy XIV’s relic battleground?
We don't know just how long it's going to be before we're all chilling out in the battlefield for Final Fantasy XIV's next relic weapon...
Bungie confirms a sharp rise in Destiny 2 cheating, explains what it’s doing to mitigate it
While this week's update from Destiny 2 has plenty of things for fans to read over, one of the bigger topics is about cheaters....
Massively Overthinking: Would you play a housing-only MMO?
Last week, MOP's Justin put up a neat post on his personal blog about the potential for bringing back just the part of WildStar...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s Loyalty to Lowsec update shakes up Faction Warfare
Between the relative safe haven of EVE Online's high-security star systems and the lawless depths of nullsec where alliances play ping-pong with titans, there...
World of Warcraft adds in Legacy Loot mode for Legion raids and dungeons
As the saying goes, it's better late than never. Adding in Legacy Loot for World of Warcraft's prior expansion (Legion) certainly feels late at...
Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the time he was a gold farmer in World of Warcraft (for research)
Apparently, Gabe Newell -- you know, the billionaire president of Valve who has enough money to, say, throw it into the bonfire of rejiggering...
The Daily Grind: Why is it annoying to group up in MMOs?
I know that MMORPGs are really big on the whole social aspect, but for some people, it seems like "social" only means "grouping up...
Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of the second set of Ishgard Restoration in Final Fantasy XIV
All right! So this is not actually the column topic that I announced last week, but in my defense, I legitimately did not know...
Global Chat: Don’t mess with my GeForce Now
The titanic struggle going on right now between cloud-based game streaming platform GeForce Now and studios who are pulling their titles from it is...
Survival sandbox Population Zero outlines its new 168-hour cycle and account progression
You arrive to the wilds of Population Zero. You have seven days to live. Go. That's, in an extremely unrefined nutshell, the basic gameplay...
Desert Arena: First impressions of Shadow Arena, the Diet Black Desert of battle royales
Did someone just cast Arcane Echo? Because this'll be our second piece on Shadow Arena this week, following its deep-dive by our PvP columnist...
