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Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2018?
Every year for the last many years, we've done some sort of award for the most underrated MMO, or even the year's sleeper hit....
Choose My Adventure: I am not good at drug running in Star Citizen
There's a rather popular quote in military circles that goes "no plan survives contact with the enemy." This quote springs to my mind as...
Choose My Adventure: Postcards from the Star Citizen universe
Your votes last week in my first Choose My Adventure gave me a great way to start looking around the environs of Star Citizen...
Choose My Adventure: Taking the steering wheel of Star Citizen
Star Citizen's recent free fly event, and in particular the time I spent with MJ and friends riding an extremely swanky ship, has gotten...
Leaderboard: What do you think about Steam’s new revenue sharing plan?
At the tail end of last week, Valve announced a new revenue sharing plan for publishers on Steam that simmered all weekend. In a...
Leaderboard: How much does an MMO’s IP influence your interest in it?
Here's a fun thought exercise: What if standard assumptions about IPs and games is wrong? To hear some people tell it, games like Star...
Leaderboard: Is a ‘WoW Immortal’ a very real possibility?
During this week's podcast, Justin made a joke about the potential for a "WoW Immortal" that... doesn't seem like such a joke, especially given...
Leaderboard: Are you playing on Lord of the Rings Online’s progression server?
So many people showed up to play on Lord of the Rings Online's progression server Anor yesterday that SSG had to rush to put up...
Leaderboard: Are you playing Fallout 76, Red Dead Redemption 2, or neither?
I have to wonder whether Bethsoft is having some regrets right now. It seems to me that Fallout 76's beta is being completely overshadowed...
Leaderboard: Are you giving Bless Online a second chance?
Bless Online officially launched, went free-to-play, left beta, and left early access all in one fell swoop yesterday, bringing to an end - or...
Leaderboard: Are you buying a BlizzCon virtual ticket this year, and is WoW Classic the reason?
Oof, some people really, really do not like jokes about BlizzCon, as I found out Sunday when my throwaway headline about paying Blizzard 50...
Leaderboard: Does an MMORPG’s publisher factor into whether you’ll play it?
I was genuinely surprised to see so many people flip out over August's reveal that Ashes of Creation will be using My.com as its...
Leaderboard: Must MMORPGs revolve around grouping to be MMORPGs?
It would be easy to dismiss Saga of Lucimia's pervasive "group-based or go home" ideas as mere rhetoric, but the reality is, there exists...
Leaderboard: How much input do you expect to have into a developing game you’ve paid for?
Last week, a developer from Parisian developer Dreamz Studio posted about how early access was the best thing that happened to his game, specifically...
Choose My Adventure: Starting fresh in RIFT
When RIFT first came out, I had very low hopes for it. The game already was launching into a crowded field, and it was...
Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI in review and choosing our next MMO
Here's the weird part about this week's column: I'm going to tell you, in short, that Final Fantasy XI is still a good game...
Choose My Adventure: Capping things off in Final Fantasy XI
All right. When last I left off my Final Fantasy XI time, it was... wait, June 7th?! What the heck happened? If not for...
Leaderboard: What’s the ideal way for an MMO studio to handle toxicity?
MOP reader BulletTeeth pointed us to a piece on The Verge this week about an incident in online shooter Battalion 1944. A highly placed...
Choose My Adventure: For the short folks of Final Fantasy XI
You wouldn't think this was something that would frequently slip one's mind, but somehow I manage to repeatedly forget that Dancer was made in...
Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI makes me feel like dancing
Some weeks you have more time or less to do stuff. I managed to get a fair chunk of time in for Final Fantasy...
