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Perfect Ten: Ten weird things I’m relearning with WoW Classic

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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...
Squirrel?!

The Daily Grind: What MMO do you not play but would still miss if it were gone?

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I don't play RIFT. I never had, and on the occasions when I have it's kind of just not been my thing. But I still...

Tamriel Infinium: Things we wish were in Elder Scrolls Online’s cash shop (but aren’t)

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Convenience items in the cash shop are nothing new in The Elder Scrolls Online. ZeniMax has been selling experience boosts and mount training accelerators...

Desert Oasis: First impressions of Black Desert on the PlayStation 4 (and the PS Vita too!)

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I needed a break from Black Desert after that disappointing enchant session I recounted in the last edition of the Desert Oasis column. A few...
Less of this and more lantern-y.

The Daily Grind: Are you up for a buy-to-play ArcheAge?

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Last week's news that ArcheAge is prepping a new buy-to-play, anti-pay-to-win server certainly caught a lot of our community's attention -- and divided its...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 235: The one about WoW Classic

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, Legends of Aria, LOTRO, Black Desert, Astellia Online, Elite Dangerous, and EverQuest II, with mailbag topics on progression servers and stream etiquette.

Choose My Adventure: Anthem kept crashing, so here’s what happened in Destiny 2

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This past weekend, for lack of a better word, was a shitshow. Let me try to set the scene. My computer is about five or...

The Daily Grind: Did you fall for WoW Classic, and what do you think so far?

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They almost got me, but not in the end. Right around 3 p.m. yesterday, just before the servers went live, in spite of my...
Get thee within, ye of victories forsaken.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s sixth year is the Shadowbringers high

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Let's look back at the sixth year of Final Fantasy XIV since its relaunch, shall we? Six times we've had a Rising celebration to...

Leaderboard: What type of WoW Classic player are you – is there a disconnect between the playerbase and the game?

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MMO blogger Wilhelm at The Ancient Gaming Noob came up with an amusing rubric for different types of WoW Classic players, perfect to pass...

Fight or Kite: Ashes of Creation Apocalypse is a doorway to an action-packed MMO

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If you had told me two weeks ago that Ashes of Creation is going to be one of my most anticipated upcoming MMO titles,...
FEEL THE NOISE

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the best (worst?) at ruining classes?

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A recent thread on the MMORPG subreddit caught my attention: Do you ever dread what's gonna happen to your class when an expansion is...
You aren't going anywhere for a while, right?

Jukebox Heroes: Hearthstone’s hilarious trailer songs

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Pull up a chair and quaff some hearty ale, for today we're going to look at Blizzard's game-within-a-game-universe, Hearthstone. Now, Hearthstone's soundtrack is a...
All she really wants is pants; is that so wrong?

The Daily Grind: What MMO did you not give enough credit until after the fact?

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Sometimes I ask myself whether I really liked WildStar as much as it deserved. Obviously, it's a kind of inherently silly line of thinking;...

LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s prettiest and ugliest places

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Depending on how you count it, at the present Lord of the Rings Online boasts somewhere around 45 zones -- a vast improvement on...

The Daily Grind: What MMO did you forget was still alive and kicking?

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The other day the Ryzom team sent us a tweet that basically told us that the game was still alive and there was stuff...

The Stream Team: Join us for our Mo Mania stream-athon!

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It's time! The Mo Mania stream-athon is happening now, so come and hang out with us for fun and prizes galore! We've laid out the...

Massively Overthinking: Problematic faves in MMOs

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A while back, a reader suggested that it was impossible for a fan who loves something to recognize its shortcomings, and I was taken...
EAT.

The Daily Grind: Are you making any special preparations ahead of WoW Classic?

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This is it, folks: your last weekend before WoW Classic. It's your last time to prepare yourselves before you dive into the comfortable old...

Meta: Join us for Massively OP’s first Mo Mania stream-athon on Friday, August 23!

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Mo Mania? You might be wondering just what exactly that odd entry on the OPTV stream calendar for tomorrow is. That's what we're here...

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