vague patch notes

The past few weeks we've been following this freakin' thing because... well, obvious reasons. But that has me thinking about crowdfunding in general, because...

So let's take a tour back to the dewy slopes of 2010, when I bought the collector's edition of Final Fantasy XIV. That would...

Back before Final Fantasy XIV's reboot launched, Naoki Yoshida talked about how the developers had plans to make certain primals be world bosses. Players...

Let's just start with the premise out of the gate. World of Warcraft launched to sales of 240,000 units on its first day. The...

So now that Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out, there is a very funny meme that is going around, but it...

I want you to put a game in your head that you think is pay-to-win. No, you do not have to say it out...

I turned 40 this year. It's not something that I announced with any particular fanfare, due in no small part to the fact that...

So this weekend had at least one incident that was, I'm not remotely sorry to say, exceedingly funny. If you've been paying any attention...

We've had a lot of fun here having a good little giggle about the whole saga (if you want to call it that) of...

So E3 is dead, and we've already shared some of our thoughts on the matter earlier this week. But as someone who literally wrote...

In July of 2021, we started a roundup tag in our tag cloud that most of us probably didn't expect to still be using...

All right, folks, real talk: Originally there was going to be a much more sober and depressing column this week, but then this week...

This is the story of a girl who ran a dungeon in WildStar's world, and while it looks all right in photographs, I absolutely...

Here's an interesting fact to consider: It took me ages to hit the level cap in Final Fantasy XI. Absolute ages. And no, it's...

My anticipation for Blue Protocol is something that I cannot adequately explain because at the end of the day it's more based around a...

Let me start with a statement of fact: I actually really like limited-time events in MMORPGs. I don't like them as a means of...

Not all sunsets are the same, no matter how much you may like a given game. This is one of the things that tends...

I am going to put forth a theory today in the Vague Patch Notes column. It is potentially an odd theory, and as sometimes...

Any time you bring up The Secret World or Secret World Legends's bland, floaty combat, at least one person is going to chime in...

When it comes to upcoming MMOs, there's always a sense of uncertainty in terms of what the final product is going to look like....