mmo design

The world doesn't need first impressions from me when it comes to Elyon. Why not? Well, for one thing, basically anything and everything I would have...

I don't wind up writing a whole lot of movie reviews. This isn't because I don't watch a lot of movies or don't think...

A couple years ago, an MMO launched named Astellia. It was fine. It wasn't bad. It wasn't good. It was just fine. It was...

If you want to chart the moment when Blizzard stopped being Blizzard, you got a really nice data point when J. Allen Brack stepped...

There was a friend I had at one point who had a particularly annoying habit. Whenever I would bring up something obnoxious that was...

I'm already worried about Crowfall. Not because of personal experiences, mind you; I haven't yet played it or anything, and all I have to...

Test servers are, let's face it, kind of a terrible idea that just keeps getting trotted out there in the MMO space. And the...

So apparently it's been pretty hard to play Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis. I don't know from personal experience (fool me once, shame...

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about burnout. This is due in no small part to the fact that I am majorly burnt out...

I had some thoughts after the most recent bit of news we got from Star Trek Online about how, you know... the game costs...

There's no actual feud between the development teams behind World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XIV. The two teams have congratulated one another on successful expansion...

What are your biases when it comes to MMOs? It's all right, you can be honest about them here. Maybe you're biased against games...

So how do you win an MMO? The general consensus is that you don't. The whole point of an MMO that this is an...

I've mentioned before that this column's title was inspired by the vague patch notes of Final Fantasy XI, and here we are diving into that...

I've heard people say that the idea of "extroverts" and "introverts" isn't really all that accurate to the way that human beings actually behave,...

For those of you who don't know, this column was named after Final Fantasy XI. Specifically, it was named after the practice that particular game...

The other day, I was in the middle of a humanizing anecdote when something happened that was tangentially related to MMOs. This prompted me...

This week, an unusual thing happened to me: I didn't really want to write this column. This may not sound all that unusual to you,...

A few weeks ago, I saw an MMO player unironically complaining about "welfare epics" here in 2021. This is basically the equivalent of saying,...

A few weeks back, I talked about why a given MMO might have failed even when it possessed good qualities. It was a response...