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The Daily Grind: Do you actually use in-game mail in MMOs for communication?

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I had the realization a few weeks back that mail has lost a lot of meaning in MMOs, the same way many people have...
Sunset on original ideas.

WoW Classic shares ‘gruesome data’ from hardcore’s first week

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Now that WoW Classic admits that it'll never be able to put a number other than "0" over the sign "Days Since a Player...

Tarisland previews invasion strike content and scribed stone skill mechanics

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You know, for a game everyone expected to be a temport WoW clone, Tarisland sure is getting a whole lot of effort and re-localization...
The stars are over Dun Morogh.

WoW Factor: What would World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’ even look like?

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So before I start this column, I want to make something very clear: I do not for one moment, in my heart of hearts,...

Perfect Ten: Times when MMOs brought about world-shattering cataclysms

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The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...
New World ROTAE

Previewing New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion: Artifact gear, endgame, crafting, and onward

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In my previous Vitae Aeternum column, I covered the big tentpole features of New World's first paid expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, including...
Burning everything.

World of Warcraft drops a launch cinematic video for next week’s Fury Incarnate patch

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Have you gotten enough of cinematics in which Bad Guy does Mean Thing before Bad But More Reasonable Woman stops him, and then has...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 435: Guild Wars 2’s secrets revealed

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Justin and Bree discuss Gamescom, Nightingale, Crimson Desert, WoW Classic's hardcore servers, ArcheAge's devastating merge, and TennoCon's Warframe and Soulframe news, with adventures in LOTRO, Baldur's Gate 3, and Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure, plus a mailbag topic on WoW's latest teases.
Seriously, though, whatever.

Casually Classic: Hardcore realms are merely a Band-Aid for WoW Classic

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Let's pause for a hot minute to absorb the fact that WoW Classic just hit its fourth anniversary. For the reheated leftovers of an...

WoW Classic’s hardcore realms claim over 90K character lives in the first day

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With an overhaul to its PvP honor system and the launch of the official hardcore realms, WoW Classic surged into the spotlight this past...

LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s higher difficulties are a breath of fresh air

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A while back, the Treebeard server in Lord of the Rings Online experimented with the first iteration of the new landscape difficulty system. I...
Everybody dies.

WoW Factor: So what is Mike Ybarra teasing for the future of World of Warcraft?

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As we are all waiting for Twitter to finish imploding under its current ownership (because nothing is more fun than rich idiots buying things...
The eternal.

Massively Overthinking: What makes you embarrassed to be an MMORPG player?

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A week or two ago, the MOP writers were chatting about people flipping tables over River Hobbits in Lord of the Rings Online (sigh)...
Sunset on original ideas.

WoW Classic’s hardcore realms officially open tonight at 6 p.m. EDT – are you prepared?

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World of Warcraft Classic fans best be readying their death shrouds because the hardcore realms officially open tonight at 6 p.m., meaning you barely...
SUUUUUUUUURGE

WoW Factor: Long-shot potential additions for World of Warcraft’s next expansion

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Last time we were here, I wound up just talking about potential class and race additions for the next World of Warcraft expansion. As...
The world if Ion Hazzikostas never gets to design another thing for this game ever again.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO have lost their magic – but you still hope they can reclaim it?

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Like probably nobody in the Massively OP reading audience, I used to play Retail World of Warcraft. I used to play it a tad...

World of Warcraft Classic overhauls the PvP honor system today ahead of this week’s hardcore launch

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If you ever thought that World of Warcraft's old PvP honor system was obtuse and way too grindy to master, then you might be...

The Daily Grind: Are you playing Guild Wars 2 SOTO today – or another big launch?

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August is always a super overwhelming month for me, in MMOs and out. I'm always trying to finish up projects in real life before...

One Shots: Bongo Gully 3

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People, I am going to go stark broke this year. It's really not a good year for an RPG gamer on a budget, what...
I'm being generous, for some reason.

The Daily Grind: What’s your most-wanted MMORPG in 2023?

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It's awfully hard to look at all of the project delays we've had this year and not have our patience tested. MMORPG players always...

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