player housing
Stars Reach’s Raph Koster on MMO trust, fear, and freedom: ‘We understand how nervous players are about griefing’
Regular MOP readers know that our commenters have already spilled a lot of ink about Raph Koster's in-development MMORPG Stars Reach - and he's...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 479: The MMO that must not be named
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, World of Warcraft, Bungie, Ashes of Creation, and Guild Wars 2, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and SWG Legends.
Rumor: Riot Games is working on a Valorant-themed MMOFPS
For several years now, Riot Games has made noise -- and more -- about its desire to enter the MMO scene. And while the...
Design Mockument: How to make housing work in World of Warcraft
Editor's note: This column was originally published in August 2024, a full three months before we knew WoW is actually getting housing with the...
Guild Wars 2 runs down the essentials of Homestead gameplay in the Janthir Wilds
Your house (in Guild Wars 2) can be a very very very fine house (fine house), with stray cats in the yard. Unlocking them...
Palia’s latest update rewards gamers for building – and touring! – player houses
As teased, Singularity 6 - now owned by Daybreak, which continues to boggle the mind - released Palia's Summer Serenade patch last night, with...
The Game Archaeologist: A look back at proto-MMOs through the 1980s
Today I want to try something a little different as we look at MMORPG history. Rather than focus in on a single title or...
Star Citizen’s alpha 3.24 personal hangars aren’t quite housing, but it’s a start
Sure, Star Citizen has showcased cargo and freight gameplay coming in alpha 3.24 already, but who's stopping it from doing so a second time?...
Guild Wars 2 is using Janthir Wilds’ raid and convergence to assess future raid content
With less than a month before Janthir Wilds opens up new zones and housing content, Guild Wars 2's devs are now turning their promotional...
One Shots: Hey World of Warcraft has housing after all…
This just in, World of Warcraft beat Guild Wars 2 to the punch by instituting the most robust, flexible, and creative housing system ever...
Ultima Online previews New Legacy’s themepark stylings in its new gameplay video
I need to warn you before you click on this trailer: If you played original Ultima Online back in the day, the opening notes...
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,...
Spellfarers is a new Palia-esque indie cozy MMO, headed to early access July 29
It's not every day that a new MMO or pseudo-MMO drops in our inboxes and becomes a game I stick on my wishlist and...
One Shots: FFXIV gets a glow-up
Substance over style should be the priority in video games -- but that doesn't mean that style doesn't deserve consideration! It's always nice when...
Raph Koster lays out the (first) four pillars of design for his sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach
I have some good news and bad news. The bad news is that Raph Koster's Stars Reach is probably a good long while away...
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...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 475: The Legend of Ralph Lobster
Justin and Bree discuss Raph Koster's Stars Reach, Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail, Daybreak's purchase of Singularity 6 and Palia, Nexon's The First Descendant, and Guild Wars 2's housing, with a mailbag topic on the legend of Ralph Lobster.
The Quinfall previews maritime activities and trading ahead of today’s second closed beta
You've signed up. You've been selected. You thought it was happening on June 22nd but that was delayed. Now the time is here, as...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Update 43 hits the PC public test server with new housing additions
It was foretold in the Elder Scrolls that a test server update would arrive, bringing a way for people to peer into others' in-game...
LOTRO’s progression server stress test last week crashed in a useful way
Last week's stress test for one of Lord of the Rings Online's new legendary servers resulted in a resounding crash as over 200 players...
