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Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020
This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...
Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020
There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2019
The down side of doing these columns at the end of the year every year is that there's a certain challenge of writing the...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2019
When we sit back to look at the biggest headlines of the year, we don't have to look far. These are the stories that...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2019
Everyone is healthy! Good news! Every game is super healthy and absolutely no one has a terminal playerbase disease that may result in the...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2019
After 10 years of covering MMORPG news, I can assure you that I am still fired up to keep doing this. One of the...
Perfect Ten: How to show and share gratitude for your favorite MMO
So you've found an MMO you like. You're thankful that it exists. It's fun, it caters to your personal tastes, and it may not...
Perfect Ten: When MMO lore is at odds with the game
Lore is made up. We all know that. People who write the lore for games are not doing research into the real story and...
Perfect Ten: Counting Fallout 76’s many post-nuclear flubs
I'll admit that I was the first one out of my seat, applauding wildly, when Fallout 76 was first announced at Bethesda's E3 showcase...
Perfect Ten: What I learned about ArcheAge Unchained as a complete newbie
As I was going through my first evening in ArcheAge Unchained, thanks to the new buy-to-play release, I was kicking myself for going into...
Perfect Ten: The many flavors of MMO PvP
Not so long ago (so, at the rate news has come out since then, what feels like decades ago) I wrote a column about...
Perfect Ten: WoW Classic dungeon reviews courtesy of Azeroth’s Yelp
So, you all know that there's a Yelp equivalent in World of Warcraft, right? An awful lot of people forget about that, but Yelpcraft is seriously right there. It's been in the game since beta, which is why you can still look at it and see reviews about how zones would be much better if Paladins had talents and some ancient references to some terrible action star of the 1980s. Can't remember which one. Dolph Lundgren, probably.
Perfect Ten: Kickstarter MMOs that raised the most money
The rise of crowdfunding in the mid-2010s swept a large wave of MMORPGs our way that might never have happened otherwise. For a while...
Perfect Ten: Solo prequel games to MMORPGs
When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce...
Perfect Ten: The biggest moments in Final Fantasy XIV’s storytelling
As has been noted before, Natusko Ishikawa is a treasure. Reading an interview with her about her work on Final Fantasy XIV's latest expansion reminded...
Perfect Ten: Why Fallen Earth was a flawed gem of an MMO
Even though I half-expected it for a while now, the news of Fallen Earth's demise earlier this month made my heart sink. Way back...
Perfect Ten: The many modes of social experience in MMOs
There are two statements frequently made with regard to MMOs that seem like linked clauses, but they're not. "MMOs are social games" is a...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs made by tiny teams
I don't really have to tell you this, but creating an MMORPG is a huge undertaking. These are some of the most complex games...
Perfect Ten: Ten weird things I’m relearning with WoW Classic
It's been a strange week. No - it's been a strange year in MMO gaming, all things considered. As I'm going through old Lord...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that flirted with permadeath
This month, Dungeons and Dragons Online will be venturing where many MMORPGs have feared to tread: into the realm of officially supported permadeath. The...
