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Perfect Ten: MMOs with outstanding tutorial sections
Tutorials! They're important. I even wrote an entire column about them recently, talking about how important they are in getting people into a new...
Perfect Ten: Why World of Warcraft’s Legion was a top-tier expansion
While a lot of long-time World of Warcraft players will point to Wrath of the Lich King as the high point of the MMO,...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs with weirdly defensive fanbases
I do not have nice things to say about RuneScape. I have never had nice things to say about RuneScape. I also do not...
Perfect Ten: 10 more MMOs you’ve already forgotten ever existed, from Elyon to Defiance
Last year, I assembled a list of 10 former MMOs that not only have ceased to exist but have ceased to be remembered (for...
Perfect Ten: The MMORPG terms we use but never define, from murderhobo to sandpark
Over in Vague Patch Notes, I have an ongoing series of columns that I describe as being primarily about having useful notes for us...
Perfect Ten: Lessons I’ve learned doing the MOP Podcast
It's been well over a decade since I began to operate a podcast covering MMO news and opinions -- originally the Massively Speaking podcast...
Perfect Ten: MMOs where you travel back in time for some reason
We're all time travelers! We travel to the future at the rate of one second per second. Every single machine you will ever operate...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons World of Warcraft is pure cozy comfort
There's something weird and fun that happens in my brain around this time of year, which is that I start to get into a...
Perfect Ten: The 10 types of MMO guides you find in the wild
Look, folks. I'm a simple man, but I figure out how to handle my own things. I put my pants on one leg at...
Perfect Ten: My top 10 favorite MMOs across two decades
Normally in these Perfect Ten lists, I'm very outward-facing. I like to create lists that are as helpful or amusing as possible for others...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs as fast food joints
Sometimes you go out to eat because you want something that's difficult to make on your own or just involves techniques you are unfamiliar...
Perfect Ten: 10 favorite features that pairs of popular MMOs share
Even though all MMORPGs compete for our time, affection, and -- above all else -- money, it doesn't mean that they can't get along....
Perfect Ten: 10 times World of Warcraft was killed forever
As many of you reading this may know, World of Warcraft is a game that launched and then immediately died forever. It then proceeded...
Perfect Ten: Great MMO April Fools’ Day pranks from back in the day
There are two types of people on April 1st: those who are annoyed and indifferent to the tomfoolery going on all around them, and...
Perfect Ten: The 10 types of MMO rotation
Rotations! They're not just just for your tires any more; they're in your MMORPGs, determining what order you should press the shiny buttons on...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that earned a notorious reputation
Nobody wants a bad reputation. I mean, you can't make everyone everywhere approve of you, but you also don't have to go out of...
Perfect Ten: The 10 best Final Fantasy crossovers
So yesterday we got hit with the Final Fantasy XVI crossover in Final Fantasy XIV. It was all right, I guess. But it wasn't...
Working As Intended: The top 10 hot tubs in MMORPGs
It's been a running joke for a few years that I always put hot tubs in my MMO houses whenever possible, and once that...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that experienced a surprising comeback
It's hard to pass up a really good comeback story. We love it when a beloved something or someone is counted down and out......
Perfect Ten: MMOs with live-action media tie-ins
Every so often I think to myself that a video game should get some kind of media adaptation before I come to my senses....
