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Massively Overthinking: Competition vs. community in MMOs
Quantic Foundry, the games research group we've been tracking ever since it posted its original Gamer Motivation Model, has a new piece out this...
EverQuesting: Digging into EverQuest’s 18th birthday and chatting with Daybreak
Holy smokes! EverQuest is old enough to vote! The world of Norrath just turned 18 years old on March 16th. In the US, that...
Why World of Warcraft’s item level scaling is really, really, dumb
This has been a very stupid week. I know this because any other week, World of Warcraft completely destroying the reason for acquiring new...
Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars The Old Republic will finally allow us to switch factions
Long-time players of Star Wars: The Old Republic: In the next update 5.2: The War for Iokath, you will finally be able to switch...
RIFT’s Forged in Flame update today will treat endgamers to new content, LFR tools
MMORPG players can use some happy news today, yeah? How about this: RIFT's Forged in Flame patch is officially live.
The core of the update...
Ashes of Creation really wants you to grok its node system
We've teased upcoming Ashes of Creation for its "nodes," and apparently Intrepid Studios agrees that they're confusing, as the MMORPG has released a dev...
World of Warcraft 7.2 Tomb of Sargeras survival guide and patch notes
Blizzard has just dropped its official survival guide and patch notes for World of Warcraft 7.2: The Tomb of Sargeras, which is loading for...
The Stream Team: Adventuring in ARK’s redwoods
After many weeks of raiding and raid prepping, Massively OP's MJ is eager to just relax and explore the ARK once again -- relax...
RIFT acknowledges expansion issues, talks about new zone and challenge servers
If you felt let down by the execution of RIFT: Starfall Prophecy, you're not alone. In this week's producer's letter, Trion Worlds admits that...
WoW Factor: The good and the bad of World of Warcraft’s patch 7.2 date
Boy, this is a time I am glad to be wrong. I was outright worried that Blizzard was going to hold patch 7.2 for...
World of Warcraft’s Patch 7.2 is coming next week
The hour is nearly upon us and we, we are not prepared. But we are pretty eager! This afternoon, World of Warcraft announced that...
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to multiplayer survival sandboxes
Welcome to The Survivalist! Ya'll might have noticed that I have gravitated a bit from my happy home of deep, immersive virtual worlds (possible...
Riders of Icarus increases the level cap, adds rainforest zone in Corruption of Light, now live
Exciting things are afoot at Riders of Icarus, as the year-old MMO rolled out its Corruption of Light update with plenty of new content...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up WildStar
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...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Creating a better balance in Guild Wars 2 raiding
One of the major concerns aired by the Guild Wars 2Â playerbase regarding raid content is the risk of juicy raid-only story details being gated...
The Soapbox: What the Mass Effect Andromeda kerfuffle ought to teach us about games criticism
Today is the official release of Mass Effect: Andromeda, which was preceded by the frankly baffling decision to allow people access to an early...
Blade & Soul switches to larger, slower updates with brand-new Secrets of the Stratus
Blade & Soul is rolling out a massive expansion next month, one NCsoft says "marks a shift in pace for the game."
Dubbed Secrets of...
Massively Overthinking: When social play in MMOs is predatory by design
Blogger Tobold recently wrote a provocative piece on social play in MMOs, as pointed out to us by our dear tipster Sally. In a...
Dungeons and Dragons Online releases the Dragonborn race as Update 35 goes live
For some people, it's not enough to just exist in a virtual world with dragons and occasionally fight against them; they want to become...
OrbusVR has fully funded on Kickstarter
OrbusVR, the blocky indie VR sandbox from Ad Alternum, has finished out its Kickstarter successfully this morning.
The studio had originally promised a brief, one-week...
