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Earlier this year, MMO Folklorist posted a rather intriguing article about the 10 best MMO box art designs -- at least in his opinion....

Some experiments are attempted once and fail, and it's not hard to figure out why that didn't work. We don't really need to take...

I find that there's this special window of time that happens when you return to an old favorite MMO that shouldn't be missed. It's...

Sometimes, when I have a series of columns planned, I start off by saying, "Hey, here's a series of columns I plan." And sometimes...

When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...

You don't have to dig very far to find my articles saying nice things about Final Fantasy XI. I say them often. I'd be...

I have always felt that it's such an enormous waste of everything when a live MMORPG is sunsetted and access to it is gone...

Tutorials are important in MMOs. No MMO has a great one, unfortunately. I don't just mean in the cases where returning players could use...

Welcome to 2023! You probably didn't need that heads-up, but you're getting it even still. I'm quite excited about the year to come in...

Years ago, I did the first version of this yearly column in a one-off format in the middle of the year just because I...

You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...

Every year when I do this post, I muse about what "value" actually means for MMOs because it's actually a tricky proposition and that...

One of the underrated aspects of being an MMO player is that our games get more updates and expansions than almost any other type...

I might be biased - by which I mean I am definitely biased - but 2022 was a year of big stories and big...

When you're investing a whole lot of time and (potentially) money into MMORPGs, you want to make sure that your game isn't going belly-up...

For most of 2022, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was so far down my list of "most anticipated releases" as to be falling off the...

All right, 2022, you are officially no longer allowed to surprise us any more because we're doing the end-of-year thing now and that means...

In my experience, people who invest heavily into being grateful and thankful for blessings don't have a lot of excess room for negativity and...

We've all met folks in game who leave an unpleasant taste in our mouths for a long time after. With all of the good...

There are a lot of MMOs out there. How do you know which one of them is the most popular and therefore the best...