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Global Chat: Shopping for a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server
Interested in going back to Star Wars Galaxies -- or trying it out for the first time -- but you find yourself paralyzed with...
Global Chat: The dawning of a new great MMO era
The next great era of MMORPGs is in the making right now and will dawn on us shortly -- or so postulates MMO Folklorist,...
Global Chat: Turkeys terrorize New World
While y'all eat turkeys this week, in New World, the turkeys terrorize you! Heartless Gamer navigated the gobble massacre in excruciating detail.
"Over all the...
Global Chat: Do SWTOR’s companions carry the player?
Due to issues of pride and fear of snarky comments, most of us might not admit to ever being carried through MMO content. But...
The Daily Grind: Should all MMORPGs include guild recruitment boards?
As someone who has made a hobby out of jumping around MMORPGs like Frogger, I've spent more time looking for guilds than I would...
Global Chat: Are you an MMO lone wolf even though you’ve tried to be social?
A recent post over at Words Under My Name resonated as the author shared how, despite multiple efforts to be social in MMOPGs, sooner...
The Daily Grind: How do you set up your MMO chat window?
While we often use it to talk, we almost never talk about chat windows in MMORPGs. Those unassuming boxes are the workhorses of our...
Global Chat: Landing boots on WoW Classic’s Wrath shores
With WoW Classic's Wrath expansion officially out, plenty of veterans of the Northrend Wars of '08 returned for another tour of duty. Among these...
Global Chat: What gets you back in an MMO you previously dismissed?
We've all been there: We try out an MMO, find that it isn't doing it for us, and abandon it. But then down the...
Global Chat: Warming up to story-driven MMORPGs
Do you play MMOs for the narrative or ignore the story altogether? There's a sharp line dividing the community on this issue, but MMO...
Fractured Online’s latest patches stabilize the game, squash bugs, and close up a duping exploit
Now that Fractured Online has hit the seas of early access, it's time for the inevitable bug patching and stability improving updates that invariably...
Global Chat: Torchlight Infinite’s infinite challenges
The upcoming Torchlight Infinite is starting to build some positive buzz for this multiplayer ARPG, and Battle Stance was on the scene to check...
Global Chat: How can MMOs help us navigate better?
Contains Moderate Peril recently tackled a subject that is very near to my heart, which is the tools, difficulty, and art of navigating around...
The Game Archaeologist: How Ultima Online got made
You know how there’s that yokel in every global chat channel that likes to troll players by claiming that World of Warcraft was the...
Global Chat: How is WildStar’s rogue server doing?
Plenty of people both here on Massively OP and out in the MMORPG community continue to hold a torch for the late, great WildStar....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the worst chat interface?
No, this piece isn't about Barrens chat or unmoderated toxicity! This is about the chat experience and interface itself. MOP's Justin recently joked that he...
Global Chat: Will World of Warcraft ever give up its raiding fixation?
MMO blog Kaylriene posted a lengthy article recently examining the state of the non-raiding scene in World of Warcraft while comparing it to Blizzard's...
The Daily Grind: Do you leave MMO global chat on or turn it off?
Ah global chat -- or world chat, as we sometimes call it. Trade chat? Whatever, it's the chat channel that goes out to everyone...
Global Chat: When you can’t ignore the MMO meta
As we kick off another column on recent MMO blog essays, Galactic Antics uses a recent situation in Star Wars: The Old Republic as...
Global Chat: Dispatches from Blaugust 2022
By now, you may have caught wind of Blaugust 2022 -- the latest season of a community effort to encourage, promote, and educate new...
