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Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2017?

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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....
So secretive!

Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends in review

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Earlier this year, when we had yet to actually get much information about Secret World Legends, I posted a piece in which I discussed...

Leaderboard: Which MMO gameplay type encourages the worst player behavior?

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One of the common tropes held by MMORPG players is that PvP, particularly free-for-all environments prone to ganks, generates the worst type of behavior....
HELLO? HELLO! HI! OPEN THE DOOR!

Choose My Adventure: Wrapping things up in Secret World Legends

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One of the things that I promised way back when I started writing this series about Secret World Legends was to mention the way...

Leaderboard: Is Destiny 2’s marketing brilliant or just plain nuts?

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So this morning I'm dishing out cheese crackers for my kid, who was up all night barfing. (If my posts have typos today, it's...
You could have tried harder. Or... at all.

Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends and the mystery of the level-based curse

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Would you believe that I sort of forgot about levels altogether in Secret World Legends? It's true! I remembered that they were a thing...
Seriously, someone needs to turn up the gamma correction in New England.

Choose My Adventure: Challenging currency in Secret World Legends

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Here's the thing that I love to point to whenever I talk about this portion of Secret World Legends: New England is really kind...

Leaderboard: What do you expect out of live MMORPG events in 2017?

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Earlier this month, Black Desert GMs ran a live in-game event. I was super excited to hear about something like that in a newer...
Everything old is not new again, but is instead the same.

Choose My Adventure: It’s all the same in Secret World Legends

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I was a bit disappointed to see that last week's poll for Secret World Legends went to the Illuminati. I played the Illuminati my...

Leaderboard: What do you do when you see cheating in an MMO?

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Although the videos are gone now, a group of Chinese net cafe players apparently resorted to violence in response to rampant speed hacking in...
So secretive!

Choose My Adventure: The truth is out there about Secret World Legends

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Oh, Secret World Legends. What are you? Are you a Frankensteinian change forced upon an existing beloved game that sucked some of the life...
Bang bang.

Choose My Adventure: Not quite farewell to Guild Wars 2

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I am not done with Guild Wars 2. This may or may not come as a surprise to people, but it's still the case regardless....

Leaderboard: Do you buy lockboxes in MMOs? Take the ‘purity’ test

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A week or two ago, Massively OP reader Sally Bowls proposed a Leaderboard too intriguing to pass up. "How about a poll on your...

Choose My Adventure: All spoken out in Guild Wars 2

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Well, this is a bit awkward. I appear to have run out of things to say. This is not inherently a bad thing. My time...
Some day, I will be good about screenshots. That day is not today.

Choose My Adventure: Map-based antics in Guild Wars 2

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One of the points of the polls and discussions for Guild Wars 2 the other week was that while I could focus on either...

Leaderboard: Are you one of the 2M people playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds today?

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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds just keeps on growing globally: It's completely outstripped every other game on Steam in terms of concurrency, having now set a new...

Leaderboard: Do e-sports belong in the Olympics?

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Nielsen has a massive "fan report" out this week dubbed The E-Sports Playbook, covering audiences in the US, UK, Germany, and France and focusing...
Life hack: Become a deity.

Choose My Adventure: Following a god in Guild Wars 2

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To my absolute lack of a surprise, the fact that your abilities are so aggressively limited once you pick an Elite Specialization in Guild Wars...

Leaderboard: Which of the City of Heroes spiritual successors are you looking forward to?

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A few years ago, we counted basically three City of Heroes successor games, all made by indie studios. In 2017, we still have three...
Flowering.

Choose My Adventure: Into the desert of Guild Wars 2

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My first week of playing Guild Wars 2 again was interesting, in no small part because it's rare for my playtime to be so...

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