vague patch notes

The other day MOP's Bree and I were having a discussion about boosting. This is not entirely unusual, but it was unusual insofar as...

Let me start off this particular column with a story about Star Wars: The Old Republic. I've mentioned before how this was a game...

I'm going to make some sandbox fans a little miffed right here with my opening premise. Yes, your sandbox MMO needs tutorials and probably...

Let's just lead off with a very simple statement. Hey there, teams out there working on MMOs and doing more than you need to?...

This week, I want to expand on something I mentioned in last week's Vague Patch Notes as an offhand thing that bears further examination....

So, if you've been paying attention to this column over the past few forevers, you will have no doubt noticed by this point that...

When I first started playing Magic: the Gathering, Revised was the new hotness and I got used to the idea that Serra Angel was...

Recently, we got a great letter from a listener asking about an issue that he'd been having with single-player games compared to MMOs. Essentially,...

It is the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy XI this week. Not the 20th anniversary of the game being in the US, and thus...

Last week, we began a discussion about the ups and downs of rogue servers in the MMO space, by which I actually mean we...

Here at MassivelyOP, we have a complicated relationship with rogue servers for MMOs. We have some pretty firm rules about when covering them is...

Richard Garriott has been to space. I'm going to repeat that a lot for emphasis, just because I feel like it's important. Richard Garriott...

Today's Vague Patch Notes is about something weird that I feel like someone should definitely done something about a long time before now. It's...

It's many years in the rear view now because these days it's someone else's show, but there was a time when Choose My Adventure...

So I was reading Chris' recent CMA entry on The Secret World, and I found myself in a curious state. I definitely agree with his initial...

So NCsoft unveiled Throne and Liberty and it looks... pretty? I guess? But it looks pretty in the worst way. It looks pretty in the...

So Guild Wars 2 had some problems with the process to unlock its siege turtle mount. As launched, it required players to take part in...

Last week's Vague Patch Notes on MMO lore and its impact on design decisions produced a lot of good comments along with a smattering...

In a previous column, I wrote about how gender-locking classes is bad. This is because it is bad. It is bad in all conceivable...

You can't swing your arms at this point without hearing about "the metaverse" in some capacity, which is supposedly the reason why Facebook changed...