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Whatever happened to anti-grinding MMO Zeal? It joined the NFT craze
Every so often, we are reminded about an MMO or online RPG that caught our attention years ago but then sank into the mire...
WoW Factor: Why Blizzard’s line about story beats is so frustrating
So the most recent roundup of interviews with World of Warcraft's staff deeply hurt me on a fundamental level. Like, this was the sort...
Surprise: WoW Classic is testing same-faction battlegrounds
Hearing the frustration of World of Warcraft Classic players unable to find timely battleground matches, Blizzard is doing the previously unthinkable: It's allowing the...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO players are a bad substitute for professional testers
Test servers are, let's face it, kind of a terrible idea that just keeps getting trotted out there in the MMO space. And the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 328: SOLO? YOLO!
Justin and Bree discuss Aion Classic's messy launch, SOLO's launch date, LOTRO's legendary servers, and Anarchy Online's 10th birthday, with adventures in WoW Classic, FFXIV, and Albion Online, plus a mailbag topic on zombie MMOs. (Not real zombies.)
Casually Classic: Why WoW Classic progression should end after Wrath of the Lich King
Considering that we are just in the early months of Burning Crusade Classic, I think it might be both premature and presumptuous to be...
World of Warcraft’s 9.1 Chains of Domination will finally launch today
World of Warcraft Retail players have been waiting an excessively long time for this patch, but 9.1 Chains of Domination is finally set to...
The Daily Grind: What’s the grindiest MMORPG still alive in 2021?
On last week's podcast, I joked that Albion Online's grind is deceptively short because once you get to what appears to be the outer...
A new slew of World of Warcraft interviews touches on the future of Sylvanas and lack of story planning
Good news, World of Warcraft fans! If you thought you were going to be done with Sylvanas after the next patch arriving tomorrow, well......
The Daily Grind: How long do you want to wait between MMO patches?
Two hundred days and change. That's how long World of Warcraft players will have been waiting for the first big post-Shadowlands update by the...
The Game Archaeologist: Anarchy Online, from launch to now
July 27th 2001. On this date, Funcom pulled the trigger on Anarchy Online, launching it in North America with a planned release in Europe a...
WoW Factor: Would you like to take a survey?
All right. Yes, I know that World of Warcraft is finally releasing its first major patch for Shadowlands on June 29th. That's a thing...
Massively Overthinking: What class is missing from your favorite MMO?
I've been obsessed with Albion Online the last few weeks - it really feels so much like Ultima Online to me. Ultima Online but...
Blizzard clarifies that new Legendaries in World of Warcraft’s next patch will have sockets automatically
All right. So here's the situation. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is adding a new socketing system for Shards of Domination starting in patch 9.1,...
World of Warcraft Senior Artist Eric Braddock leaves Blizzard
The brain drain continues over at Blizzard Entertainment, as World of Warcraft Senior Artist Eric Braddock announced this month that he had left the...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons you’d never want to live in an MMORPG
Escapism and daydreams are, in my opinion, wonderful and part of what fuels our creativity and excitement. I mean, most of us probably engage...
Casually Classic: What retail WoW could (re)learn from Burning Crusade Classic’s class progression
Now that we're weeks into Burning Crusade Classic, players are discovering that despite many antiquated design elements, this expansion is still a whole lot...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has its first major patch, Chains of Domination, available for pre-loading
It feels like it's taken a really, really long time for the first content patch to arrive for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. That would...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 327: Ducks all the way down
Justin and Bree discuss WoW 9.1, Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO Classic, RuneScape Mobile, and Black Desert's Corsair, with adventures in Final Fantasy XIV, WoW Classic, Albion Online, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on developer promises and skills we learned in MMOs.
The Daily Grind: Would you play a LOTRO Classic server?
Lord of the Rings Online devs surprised players this past weekend by saying that a Classic server for LOTRO might be on the table,...
