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WoW Factor: Where WoW Vanilla’s and WoW Classic’s communities diverge
I want to talk about the community in WoW Classic because I think it's interesting and it's been on my mind ever since the story we...
The Daily Grind: What was the best MMO emulator or rogue server in 2019?
So 2019 turned out to be a pretty damn interesting year for fans of old MMORPGs. Not only did WoW Classic launch and bring...
WoW Factor: Speculating on Shadowlands’ release date using math
Gosh, I love doing these math columns. Not just because I enjoy math, although that's definitely a part of it; there's something so satisfying...
Wurm Online teases new content and Steam as devs scale back content support for Wurm Unlimited
Wurm Online dished out a new patch to players this past week, with changes for the Jackal server, updates crafter signatures, new hitching posts...
WoW Classic activates PvP honor and world bosses
You better savor these content updates, WoW Classic players, because there are only a finite number of them left. Out of all of the...
Hyperspace Beacon: How SWTOR added two Onslaught stories (but wrote only one)
Star Wars: The Old Republic prides itself on being a game with choices that matter. Fundamentally, one of the biggest choices a player can...
BlizzCon 2019: Here’s how World of Warcraft is streamlining its leveling process
At BlizzCon today, the World of Warcraft team beat loud and often on the drum of choice during the Shadowlands panel, promising that players...
Hyperspace Beacon: First impressions of SWTOR’s Onslaught and Update 6.0
Like all other Star Wars: The Old Republic fans, I have been waiting for another expansion from BioWare for too long. Of course, the...
Mark Kern didn’t just quit WoW Classic: He accused his old Firefall studio of Chinese corruption
Earlier this week, we reported that former World of Warcraft Team Lead Mark Kern had very publicly posted that he was quitting WoW over...
Global Chat: One MMO gamer is trying to finish Fallen Earth before it’s gone
When you know that your beloved MMORPG is about to be shut down, what do you do? If you're the blog 24 Hours in...
Massively Overthinking: The one about MMO roleplay servers
An MOP reader named Thierry recently pointed us to a brewing storm in the World of Warcraft Classic community: In a nutshell, the server...
LOTRO Legendarium: Minas Morgul is off to a better start than Mordor
While we have known for a long while that this was coming, the official announcement of Lord of the Rings Online's 2019 expansion was...
WoW Factor: No, Battle for Azeroth’s story hasn’t paid off by the end of the war campaign
You know, I honestly had expected to do something else for WoW Factor this week, and then I was reminded that the war campaign was...
The Daily Grind: How would you make a special MMO ruleset server?
Lately there's been some friction over in Lord of the Rings Online due to what players see as mishandling and miscommunication over the game's...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 238: Ten years of free-to-play
Justin and Bree discuss DDO, Bless, Book of Travels, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, WoW Classic & Retail, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag topics on static endgames and genre labels.
Blizzard’s Pat Nagle on the first quests he designed for World of Warcraft
The fjord pining that is WoW Classic certainly drums up lots of nostalgia for folks, whether they're players of the game itself or developers...
World of Warcraft: Classic is nerfing threat generation on Demoralizing Shout
Demoralizing Shout has numerous effects in WoW Classic; it reduces the attack power of nearby enemies, gives you a nice shouting animation, and generates...
World of Warcraft’s private servers are emptying in the wake of WoW Classic, but they aren’t empty yet
So, who figured that the people playing World of Warcraft emulators would all jump ship in order to play on the official version of WoW Classic?...
Working As Intended: What it means to be an MMORPG
I am amused and somewhat bewildered to admit that I have my very own pet troll. He follows me around on Reddit to hassle...
Space content for SWGemu is still up in the air as devs say a wipe and launch are still ‘a long ways off’
If you've followed the long-running original-flavor Star Wars Galaxies emu community for any length of time, you are surely aware of the emulator that...
