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A major global studio based in South Korea, known in the west for games like WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, among many others.

The Game Archaeologist: The rise and fall of Landmark and EverQuest Next

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The year was 2013. Sony Online Entertainment was still a functioning and seemingly robust MMORPG studio, and its yearly SOE Live convention was a...
I am not supporting this lizard-shooting quest.

Massively Overthinking: The oldest MMORPGs we still play

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When I was still a teenager in my earliest MMOs, the trend in the communities I ran in was to play MMOs sequentially, due...

Guild Wars 2 makes Whisper in the Dark free this week while the community creates an anthology of hopeful stories

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While this free episodic stuff was brought up by us near the end of April, consider this your gentle reminder that Guild Wars 2...

Working as Intended: Sparking joy in MMOs

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On this week's podcast, I mentioned that I'd just finished off Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, something that superficially seems unrelated...
Bye.

Vague Patch Notes: What causes the preponderance of disconnected MMO endgames?

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Yesterday, I wrote a whole column about how WildStar had some really great stuff in it. I did not mention its endgame at all....
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: The top 10 things we loved about WildStar

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WildStar was a really neat game that was run by people who had no idea what was good about it. I'd apologize for that...
Cool guys don't look at explosions.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 270: Words of Warcraft

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Justin and Bree discuss Age of Conan, Defiance, World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2, and COVID-19 delays, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, and Fallout 76, and mailbag topics on Blizzard and freeform character building.
Hey, that's nice.

Guild Wars 2’s No Quarter episode launches May 26 with new map and mastery

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This won't come as a huge surprise, since we already knew Guild Wars 2's next living story Icebrood Saga episode is called No Quarter...
There was something beautiful and wonderful and it destroyed itself.

The Daily Grind: Is there a specific point in an MMO’s development when you know it’s doomed?

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I was tabbing back through one of my favorite Old Massively columns when I bumped into this quote and had to go look up...

Massively Uplifting: Communities and companies bolster COVID-19 relief and mental health support

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April showers of good deeds bring May flowers of comfort and hope. And after the last couple of months, we sure could use a...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO to play if you’re totally broke?

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A while back I saw an interesting thread on the Guild Wars 2 Reddit, in which the player was asking whether he was missing...

Global Chat: Suffering through Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box

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Guild Wars 2 fans have developed a cult following around the seasonal Super Adventure Box, but as much as some love it, others have...

One Shots: Day of the Cats

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As the reluctant owner of a slightly deranged cat, I have nightmares of when felines grow into towering, snide monstrosities and roam the planet...
Uh?

The Daily Grind: Do you play the MMO fashion wars?

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I care about how I look. Obviously not in a real life, because I've chosen to be a short, lumpy gnome of questionable heritage,...

The Soapbox: The sunsetted MMORPGs I miss the most

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I'm pining for the fjords. Not in the way that would assume I'm becoming some jaded and angry MMO fan; I'm never going to stop...
honsing around

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you let your own kids play?

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A while back, in the long long ago when we could still talk to humans in person, I was chatting with the mom of...

Massively Overthinking: Canaries in the MMO coal mine

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A few weeks back on the MOP Podcast, reader Danny posed us such a provocative question that we said right then we were going...

COVID-19 roundup: Rockstar and Jagex help save the UK’s National Videogame Museum and more

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COVID-19 is still very much a thing in most of our staff's and readers' lives, and it's still very much impacting the games industry. A...

Guild Wars 2’s next living story episode, No Quarter, will launch without voice acting thanks to the pandemic

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While business is booming for online games during this pandemic-related quarantine, story-centric MMORPGs seem to be having trouble getting specific types of work done...

Perfect Ten: Underappreciated Guild Wars 2 features

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Guild Wars 2 is not a perfect game, but then again, no MMORPG is. I've had a pull-and-push relationship with the game since its...

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