richard bartle

Back in March, we used a Richard Bartle blog post to discuss retention in MMOs and how developers could up their stickiness factor. But in...

Publishing a video game globally is a monumental task, more so if it is a live online game such as what you'd find with...

At the beginning of every year, I give the games that I am embedded in a letter grade centered around the four different player...

Yesterday's post on Richard Bartle's new unplayer matrix got me thinking once again about my quibbles with the original Bartle quotient, which won't surprise...

Dr Richard Bartle, best known to MMORPG players for establishing the research that ultimately led to the admittedly flawed but widely quoted "Bartle test,"...

When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...

Even though there are hundreds and thousands of MMOs spanning several decades, only a small handful were so incredibly influential that they changed the...

Zubon at Kill Ten Rats recently spied a lovely tidbit over on Dr Richard Bartle's blog. Bartle, I shouldn't need to type, is considered...

Greetings, men and mer. It’s that time of year again when I take a look back on everything that Elder Scrolls Online has given...

It's that time of year again where we reflect on the year gone by and consider Star Wars: The Old Republic as a whole....

Hey you! Yeah, the player who actually reads quest text and lore entries when all of the other hooting madmen are furiously clicking past...

In last week's Daily Grind about whether or not MMOs are better the second time you play them, the topic of burnout came up. "I find...

Massively OP reader Sally Bowls recently pointed us to a blog post by Dr Richard Bartle about the leveling mechanic in RPGs -- and...

It was the mid-'80s, and I was just a kid in love with his family's IBM PC. Not having a wealth of capital at...

Well, BioWare, it’s half-way through the year. It’s time to look at how you’ve done with Star Wars: The Old Republic and what can...

"You're in the middle of a vast hall stretching out of sight to the east and west. Strange shadows play across the high vaulted...

Toward the end of 2014, genre academics popularized the idea that the MMORPG genre was becoming "unbundled" -- that MMORPGs were splintering, "with sociality,...

As graphical MMOs took off in the 1990s with the advent of games like Neverwinter Nights, The Realm, and Ultima Online, many of them...

"Father of MMORPGs" Dr. Richard Bartle, author of the pioneering research that spawned the Bartle test, is publishing two new books about our imperiled genre. MMOs from...

I’ve never had a chance to do an annual "report card" like this for Elder Scrolls Online because I left the game by the time that...