global chat

The MMO blogosphere is bigger than Massively Overpowered. Join Justin Olivetti on his epic quest to find and elevate the best MMO blog posts of the week. [Follow this feature’s RSS feed]

Global Chat: Getting a hit of that EverQuest nostalgia

5
Ahh... smell that? Smells like a new batch of EverQuest nostalgia, served up to us as a fresh progression server. For some of the...

Global Chat: Freaking out over Destiny 2

2
Ever since the Destiny 2 reveal, everyone seems to be freaking out about this follow-up MMO shooter. Will it be the new hotness or...

Global Chat: Saying goodbye to The Secret World

28
With the move to put The Secret World in maintenance mode and shift focus to the rebooted Secret World Legends, one MMO blogger decided...

Global Chat: Is Ashes of Creation worth backing?

37
With all of the hullabaloo going on concerning Ashes of Creation and its Kickstarter campaign, a few bloggers are asking themselves whether or not...

Global Chat: Die inventory management die!

21
Do you have inventory management with the passion of a thousand burning suns? Have you lost most of the vision in your left eye...

Global Chat: Happy 10th birthday, LOTRO!

0
With Lord of the Rings Online hitting its 10th anniversary this past week, plenty of bloggers are enjoying the festivities and recalling some of...

Global Chat: Which MMO developer do you most appreciate?

34
Recently, Ravalation carried on an annual blogger tradition called Developer Appreciation Week. During this week, gamers would put aside their usual vitriol and criticism...

Global Chat: The fallout over Secret World Legends

66
The fallout over The Secret World's reboot into Secret World Legends has spread far and wide over the MMO blogging community, with many expressing...

Global Chat: Fare thee well, Landmark

12
Believe it or not, there were actually people who played and enjoyed Landmark -- and were saddened to see it taken offline. To kick...

Global Chat: What powerful memories come from playing MMOs?

6
Upon seeing how a friend was becoming disenchanted with MMOs, blogger Ravalation hypothesized it was because he was shying away from other players too...
I HAVE TO RENEW MY HOUSE COME ON

The Daily Grind: Is an MMO still an MMO if it lacks chat?

86
In the comments of Andrew's last Soapbox on whether or not Pokemon Go properly constitutes an MMO, veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster argued provocatively against...

Global Chat: Get over the lockbox debate already

84
One of the largest and most enduring arguments of the MMO genre is the purpose, legality, and profitability of so-called lockboxes in games. We've...

LOTRO’s housing changes arrive on Monday

14
One of the biggest changes to Lord of the Rings Online's housing system in years is arriving on Monday, giving Hobbit interior decorators something...

Global Chat: Interior decorating in MMORPGs

0
With Elder Scrolls Online's new housing system coming early next month and LOTRO testing out some much-needed housing improvements, homemaking seems to be a...

Global Chat: Elder Scrolls Online renaissance

0
As I peruse a hundred or so community blog posts every day, it's fascinating to me to see what games the MMO blogosphere as...

Global Chat Extra: In remembrance of Landmark

0
Obviously, the reverberations of the news of Landmark's closure continue to be seen across the MMO community, including in our own comments sections. The...

Global Chat: The Standing Stone standoff

0
Following the announcement of LOTRO and DDO's new studio and the subsequent cancellation of the Asheron's Call games, you can better believe that the...

Global Chat: Boobs and wrinkles edition

0
Is the infamous "chainmail bikini" slowly disappearing from western RPGs and MMOs? Pete at Dragonchasers thinks that it is... and he kind of laments...

Global Chat: Knights of the Eternal Throne debate

0
With the arrival of SWTOR: Knights of the Eternal Throne, the MMO blogosphere lit up in lively discussion about the expansion, its story, and...

Global Chat: Evaluating the latest MMORPG expansions

0
This week in our tour through MMO blog posts, we're going to witness a lot of evaluations of recent update and expansion launches that...

ADVERTISEMENT

THE LATEST POSTS

TOP CONTENT