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The Daily Grind: Do you take part in absurd general chat in MMOs?

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For all that Barrens Chat in classic World of Warcraft has long been considered vile enough to break out the capital letters, it's easy...
Not this.

The Daily Grind: How do people misunderstand your favorite MMOs?

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A couple of weeks ago, I had a column in which I opined that younger me thought of Ultima Online as a place for hardcore...
Something fell.

The Daily Grind: Is an MMO’s shutdown announcement better or worse than shutdown suspicions?

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This is a post about Marvel Heroes. It's also a post about Firefall. In fact, it's a post about all of the games where...
How far we've come yet.

PAX East 2016: Richard Garriott discusses Shroud of the Avatar’s ‘launch’ and future

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It might seem as if Shroud of the Avatar has been in early access for a very long time, probably because it has. Technically, it's...

Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Are MMO communities real or fake?

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We've come a long way in our discussion of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological...
Classic.

The Daily Grind: Are you ever reluctant to get involved in MMORPG group content?

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I have a very difficult time doing group content without group finders. This may come as a surprise to readers, but I'm actually a...
Unbreaking what we screwed up forever.

Tribes: Ascend creative director: ‘We made a lot of mistakes in a lot of different places’

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The history of Tribes: Ascend is a strange one. Like the first few titles out of Hi-Rez Studios, it launched to decent reception, had...
To be fair, it's this way all over.

Trion shuffles community managers for ArcheAge and its secret project

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There's a new name on the community team for ArcheAge this week. Evan "Scapes" Berman has posted his farewell letter on the game's official forums, announcing his...
You can buy me!

The demographics and realities of selling games on Steam

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Steam is one of those things that we think of as almost ubiquitous as a gaming platform. You can buy many MMOs on it, it...
Ice cold.

TERA is getting region-locked on Steam

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If you want to play TERA in Russia, you certainly can, as the game has a Russian publisher. The game is also available on...
So it goes.

Reddit’s Button is over

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On April 1st, Reddit's big gag for the year was "The Button." It was a button that started a 60 second countdown, and when...

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