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Diablo IV plans 13-page patch while players advocate for missing features
With some of the launch week insanity already dying down in Diablo IV, the dev team took time to sit down for a "campfire...
Global Chat: MMO players’ reactions to Diablo IV’s launch and SWTOR’s studio move
As the online community once again gets swept up into the hellscape of Diablo, there are no shortages of opinions about the quality of...
Global Chat: How insistent are MMOs that you group up?
In a recent essay over at Inventory Full, the author looks back at a couple decades-plus of MMO gaming to recall how fast and...
Global Chat: How do you play older MMOs?
It's always a challenge -- sometimes an insurmountable one -- when you jump into older MMORPGs after being conditioned by modern experiences. To help...
Global Chat: Black Desert is the MMO sandbox to beat
Those who wrote off or skipped by Black Desert on the way to other MMOs may be missing one of the best sandboxes on...
Global Chat: Do MMOs need help from artificial intelligence?
With tech news becoming more and more dominated by the sophistication and place of artificial intelligence, blogger Tobold asks if AI might be the...
Global Chat: Diablo IV is an MMO, change my mind
Besides melting GPUs, ejecting colors into the sun, and being more grim than your unapproving Aunt Kelka, Diablo IV's becoming known for actually being...
Global Chat: Are we gaming in the ‘Age of Diablo?’
With Diablo II's remake on the market, Diablo III's continuing seasons, Diablo Immortal's patches, and Diablo IV on the way this summer, it's not...
Global Chat: How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine impacted EVE Online?
While the effects of real-world events on video games certainly isn't as important as the lives, livelihoods, and freedoms of actual people, it is...
Global Chat: Where does WoW Classic go from here?
As Wrath Classic gets closer to its preordained expiration date, Priest with a Cause is asking a question that a lot of people are:...
Choose My Adventure: Global Agenda provides a classic MMO ass-beating
I'll be one of the first to admit that in spite of my desire to get into a shooter MMO/multiplayer game this month, I'm...
Global Chat: The seductive appeal of New World
Over a year since its launch, New World remains as rocky and controversial as ever. And while it has its critics, Amazon's MMO also...
Global Chat: Is Dragonflight living up to expectations?
While first impressions are all well and good, the mark of a solid MMO release is whether or not it can sustain interest and...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen discusses development plans for the first portion of 2023
It's a new year and a new lineup of work for the developers of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, which is the primary focus...
Global Chat: The MMO blogs you should be reading in 2023
Welcome to a new year of Global Chat -- and with it, the anticipation of a great assortment of MMO blog essays, questions, guides,...
The Daily Grind: What MMO hill would you die on?
As this is the internet, everyone is absolutely required to have an opinion on everything. There are degrees of conviction, of course, and how...
Global Chat: Would Secret World have done better if it had been set in the 1920s?
Thanks to a recent piece by MMO Folklorist, I learned something that I had never known about The Secret World: Apparently, in early development...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2022
2022 marks the fifth year in a row we've done this roundup, but the Daily Grind has been a recurring mini-column here on MassivelyOP...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best player community as of 2022?
Here's the thing about MMO community: There exists no perfect one. Every single one of them has bad elements. Some of them are out...
Desert Oasis: Black Desert’s Jaehee Kim and Jesse Joo on accessibility, community, and playing their own game
Attending the first Calpheon Ball in the US was an awesome experience. Getting to see fellow Black Desert fans, watching the joy in peoples' faces...
