mmo design

Now that we're done with Leveling Month in Vague Patch Notes, is there another topic I can turn into a month-and-change of column topics?...

All right. So we are here at long last, at the end of Leveling Month, although it's actually more like Month And A Bit....

We've been in Leveling Month over here in Vague Patch Notes, and I had intended for this particular column to close off that discussion...

Last week, I talked about how slow leveling design could become a problem. In that piece (and the one before it - it's become...

Last week in Vague Patch Notes, I talked about leveling. At the very end of the column, I mentioned that slow leveling or fast...

No matter what you do, leveling in an MMORPG is going to be too fast. It's also going to be slow. It is the...

It was the middle of the night, for us, when we heard the news: Blue Protocol is dead. It will never be receiving a...

A friend and I were talking about an MMORPG's content recently (it doesn't matter which one) and I was pointing out how that particular...

The other day, I was writing about Baldur's Gate 3 celebrating its anniversary with statistics about all the companions that people have smooched over...

Final Fantasy XIV has a player-based mentor program and an automatic guidance network for new players. The idea is that certain players can volunteer...

Today, I want to talk to you about an event that you can no longer participate in within Final Fantasy XIV. It's an event...

In 2009, Dungeons & Dragons Online went free-to-play, which was a pretty big deal at the time. It was especially important to me, since...

For those of you who haven't been reading the site for a while or just don't keep this in your head, I'm going to...

Raph Koster is a smart guy. Not just an experienced one (he's that, too), but a smart one. The man knows his stuff front...

Earlier this week, MOP's Bree and I were discussing my plans in Final Fantasy XIV as part of the Dawntrail early access launch. Now,...

I could play Final Fantasy XIV on my PlayStation 5, but I don't want to. And as weird as it might sound, the reason...

I haven't really had anything to say about Guild Wars 2's upcoming Janthir Wilds expansion thus far because... well, I'm not our GW2 columnist,...

So a few weeks back, I did a column on what the metagame actually is in MMORPG, and then I discussed how noob traps...

We talk a lot about MMOs that fail here on Massively Overpowered. I wrote a whole column about how our standards of success are...

Last year, I was pretty jazzed about Blue Protocol. I've actually been pretty jazzed about it for a while, but last year it looked...