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When one MMO dies, it forces us to look at the rest of the bunch through the sunglasses of mortality. The finite nature of...

In the past four installments of this pseudo-series, I have done columns on archetypes that exist in every single game. Every game has a...

Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...

I've gone on record multiple times to state that when you get right down to it, MMOs look pretty darn complicated. There are a...

Quite often while I'm writing columns for Massively OP, the catalyst behind a given topic is what interests me right then -- and, I...

Everyone knows that people who play Final Fantasy XIV will not shut up about the game's music. This includes me. I will not shut...

"Nothing is ever truly free," my grizzled Uncle Trigger once told me. "So you got to pay for that there air! Pony up, boy!" While...

MMO sunsets can be weird. I am never happy when a game that people love goes away. It always represents a lot of lost...

Is there anything more agonizing to an MMO fan than to get excited about a promising title and then see that title cancelled before...

Everyone makes mistakes, and that's all right. That's not necessarily a big deal. Yes, this is true when it comes to MMO studios too....

Back in November of 2004, I was a wide-eyed 28-year-old bachelor who had just met his future wife and was generally leery about MMOs...

The fact that we currently have a Big Five in the MMO space is a big change from not so long ago, when the...

When I re-installed RIFT this past month, I knew I was setting myself up for heartache. It is, after all, one of my all-time...

Let's not mince words here: I am a cat person. I absolutely love cats. They are small furry idiots who make stupid yelling noises,...

I'm not saying that MMO dungeons are boring or anything, but when you start one, you've kind of committed to seeing it through --...

It's the little things that get you when you weren't paying attention, according to Jim Infantino (and Jim's big ego), and this is true...

If you take some weird, outlandish, or out-of-the-ordinary item and then saturate your life with it, sooner or later the bizarre becomes the accepted...

Here's an interesting point that's worth considering: For all the talk about cryptocurrencies, NFTs, the metaverse, and other Web3 buzzwords being the future of...

Not all MMO sunsets are equal, when you look at them. Sure, all impact players who made those games a home, but some titles...

Recently, our resident Choose My Adventure expert Chris has been taking on Final Fantasy XI, and he's come away with a somewhat... let's say...