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Choose My Adventure: Failure to trade in Black Desert

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Despite my best efforts, I walked away from my trading attempts in Black Desert having been wholly unsuccessful. I consider this a good thing,...
This. They're this.

Leaderboard: Where do you draw the line between griefing and roleplaying?

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On the Morrowind subreddit a few days ago, a player was recounting a particular roleplay-slash-griefing episode on a hardcore-roleplay Ultima Online emulator. The player...

Leaderboard: Are you part of SuperData’s cohort of ‘gaming video content viewers’?

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SuperData released a report this week arguing that the video gaming video content business is booming, even "outpacing earnings from some traditional sports leagues."...
Upon the fields of whatever.

Choose My Adventure: Grinding away in Black Desert

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Let me talk to you, my friends, about grinding. Specifically, about how it gets a bad reputation that it doesn’t altogether deserve. How does this...
EverQuest

Leaderboard: Are you sick of MMORPG quests?

80
When World of Warcraft was in beta and I first gave it a go, I remember being absolutely captivated by questing. It wasn't as...
REAP

Choose My Adventure: Learning to appreciate Black Desert

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First and foremost, I'd like to thank the many people who informed me about how to hide the UI in Black Desert. I shouldn't...

Leaderboard: How much did your family support gaming as a hobby when you were a kid?

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I was chatting with my mom this morning when I was surprised to hear her say that she was impressed with how good my...
Someone's dropping a solo album, from the looks of it.

Choose My Adventure: Muddling through the start of Black Desert

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After my first week of playing, I don't know if I actually like Black Desert very much. I also don't know entirely if it's...
It's been real, and it's been fun, but... eh, you know the joke now.

Choose My Adventure: Gearing up for Black Desert

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I’m going to be honest with you, folks; the last Choose My Adventure installment left me feeling kind of depressed. It’s a shame to...
In a world of self-inflicted wreckage.

Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up WildStar

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Writing about WildStar at this point feels weird. Obviously, I just finished up playing the game for this feature for four weeks. It feels fresh...

Leaderboard: The Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind ‘chapter vs. DLC’ fee debate

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In the comments of a Daily Grind last week, a few commenters tangented into debate about The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind pricing. See, the original...

Massively OP’s PAX East 2017 awards and best-in-show reader vote

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We've finished rolling out all of our PAX East content this year, and we've put our MMORPG-addled noggins together to try to choose our...
Such a lovely place.

Choose My Adventure: A high-level venture in WildStar

5
First and foremost, before I start talking about my last week of adventures in WildStar, I'd like to thank the developers for giving me...
Take me to here.

Choose My Adventure: Poisoning the well in WildStar

6
It's amazing how some things stick in your mind while others don't. I honestly had forgotten about the whole questline in WildStar that involves showing...
SWEET GUITAR RIFF

Leaderboard: Will WildStar’s free max character influence you to play?

57
Eyebrows flew up earlier this week when Carbine announced it would be granting free max-level WildStar characters to players who log into the game...

Leaderboard: Will The Secret World’s relaunch entice you to play?

86
Last week, the MMO world was startled to learn that instead of getting an expansion, The Secret World is getting a complete relaunch as...
Are we there yet, and no matter what the answer is, why not?

Choose My Adventure: The overwhelming opening of WildStar

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Playing WildStar for this week's session was the first time I really felt old. I had failed to account for two things when I got...
In a world of self-inflicted wreckage.

Choose My Adventure: Starting fresh in WildStar

15
There are times when I've been away from a game for a while that I'm honestly not sure if I remember something correctly. I...

Leaderboard: If you solo in MMORPGs, why?

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Solo players in MMORPGs are a strange case, chiefly because they are treated like an outlier when they aren't. The fact is that almost...
Starting off on the autocratic foot.

Choose My Adventure: Reconsidering WildStar, from pre-launch to now

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In order to talk about WildStar, we kind of have to talk about Firefly. And no, not in the obvious way where we talk...

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