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Leaderboard: Do you buy lockboxes in MMOs? Take the ‘purity’ test
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
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...
Choose My Adventure: Map-based antics in Guild Wars 2
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?
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?
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...
Choose My Adventure: Following a god in Guild Wars 2
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?
A few years ago, we counted basically three City of Heroes successor games, all made by indie studios. In 2017, we still have three...
Choose My Adventure: Into the desert of Guild Wars 2
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...
Choose My Adventure: The return to Guild Wars 2
Many moons ago, when I was first hired on Massively-that-was, my fellow hire at the time was a lady by the name of Rubi...
Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar in summation
All the time through playing Shroud of the Avatar, I found myself wanting to like the game a lot more than I did. And...
Choose My Adventure: Many kinds of lost in Shroud of the Avatar
One of the first things I did in Shroud of the Avatar was get kind of lost. The last week's activities were largely similar....
Choose My Adventure: The why behind Shroud of the Avatar
Finding the fun, I'm sorry to say, was a bit on the fleeting side.
The problem isn't that Shroud of the Avatar suddenly stopped having...
Choose My Adventure: Finding the fun in Shroud of the Avatar
One of the things that I believe is utterly vital to writing about games in general and MMOs in particular is finding the fun....
Leaderboard: Do the HTC Vive’s and Oculus Rift’s price cuts change your opinion on VR pricing?
When Oculus dropped the price of the Oculus Rift down to $400 earlier this summer, supposedly temporarily (but not its first drop), analysts were...
Choose My Adventure: Finding my way in Shroud of the Avatar
Heading into Shroud of the Avatar for the first time was a bit of a strange experience for me, right from the start. Usually,...
Leaderboard: Did Guild Wars 2’s preview weekend convince you to buy Path of Fire?
This past weekend, the gaming segment of my Twitter feed was positively dominated by chatter about Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion free preview weekend. I...
Choose My Adventure: Starting completely fresh in Shroud of the Avatar
I really know pretty much nothing about Ultima.
This is only partly my fault. Way back when the Ultima games were a big deal on...
Leaderboard: Will you be trying Guild Wars 2 for free this weekend?
As part of its marketing push ahead of Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion launch in September, ArenaNet is plotting a freebie weekend...
Choose My Adventure: Get out of here, DC Universe Online
So this is an unusual situation for me: I've never actually played a game for Choose My Adventure that I've disliked this much.
Those of...
Leaderboard: Did you go back to LOTRO for Mordor?
Before we begin, let's just get the trailer thing out of our systems. It was bad. Really bad. OK? Good. That's done.
Lord of the...
