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As I am fond of saying, there is no MMO that I've ever played that has the capability of being so frustrating and downright...

I've mentioned many times that my first MMO was Final Fantasy XI. It released in North America 13 years ago as of tomorrow. I...

Back in 2009 I made the transition into parenthood, an advanced class that I still don't think I'm quite qualified for. Since then I've...

Leadership is difficult. You have to get a group of people to work together when they may or may not be naturally inclined to...

When you take a step back and look at the broad MMO genre, you see some common threads that run through most games. One...

I am not a big fan of Kickstarter in general, but I like to think that I'm not a big fan for actual reasons...

I've noticed that some people get irritated when others repeatedly bring up long-dead MMORPGs. I think there's the mentality of, "What's done is done,...

There are always going to be differences in opinion about what should be done with an IP based upon a franchise. That's just natural....

If I asked you what a Mage is in an MMORPG, what would you say? Some cloth-wearing gal who lugs around a long staff and flings...

RIFT receives too little of the MMORPG community's attention, partially due to its age (six years now), contentious feelings toward Trion Worlds, or a perception...

Has this ever happened to you? You decide to roll (or reroll) a new character in an MMORPG, and after you get done choosing...

It's not long now until World of Warcraft: Legion launches, which is all that I've been waiting for now for a while. Sure, technically...

Video games had a huge impact on my childhood and teenage years, imprinting themselves onto my psyche for all of the struggles and elation...

In the annals of MMORPG history, 2016 might well go down as a very odd duck of a year. While on the surface it...

I spend a lot of my time thinking about MMO PvP. You might not realize it, but I'm actually a really big fan of...

When I was a kid and only slightly more nerdy than I am today, I used to read movie novelizations like crazy. I don't...

It's hard to believe that it's actually been an entire year since Final Fantasy XIV's first expansion launched. At the time, I played it...

As with mainstream movies, it seems that the MMORPG industry has settled comfortably into the PG-13 zone for its approach and themes. Sure, there's...

Given the choice, I am always going to pick a game with stylized graphics over realistic ones. This is for many reasons; it's partly...

Not everyone is into creating alternate characters -- alts -- in MMORPGs. This is understandable: Some people don't have time to play more than...