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Perfect Ten: The stupid reasons I have had for sacrificing sleep for MMOs
One of the most useful pieces of advice that I've gotten regarding making decisions for the future is also the simplest: Imagine yourself taking...
Final Fantasy XI’s Naoki Yoshida talks about the importance of developer passion and communication
Any veteran player of Final Fantasy XI is probably used to the idea of seeing the game's developers as your enemies in playing the...
Design Mockument: Mocking up Final Fantasy XI-2
"Wait just one cotton-picking minute," you say. "Square-Enix is not hurting for another MMO after Final Fantasy XI. It has one. It's called Final Fantasy...
Choose My Adventure: Slow-going through Final Fantasy XI’s more recently added systems
First thing’s first: I have sorted out the way the aspect ratio option works. No more squished kitty! You’d think that’d be a pretty...
Final Fantasy XI previews its next patch and the upcoming Sunshine Seeker event
It should not surprise anyone who is familiar with the update cadence of Final Fantasy XI tht there will be a new patch for...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida skipped Final Fantasy XI at launch to play Dark Age of Camelot
Naoki Yoshida is best known for his role as the producer and director of Final Fantasy XIV, but the fact of the matter is...
Choose My Adventure: The long-awaited and slightly bumpy return to Final Fantasy XI
So as you can see, I got Final Fantasy XI working. More specifically, I got the help of our resident expert on all things...
Final Fantasy XI developers talk the game’s 20th anniversary while preparing more reward campaigns
There's a lot to celebrate when a game hits 20 years of age, and Final Fantasy XI has been celebrating all month. It's still...
Destiny 2 runs down all of the content features and this week’s new dungeon in the Season of the Haunted
If a girthy set of patch notes for the latest season in Destiny 2 is a bit too hyper-detailed for you, then you might...
Here’s how Dungeons and Dragons Online is going to handle its level cap increase
While it's completely understandable if the sudden abundance of cat hair from the new Tabaxi race has blinded you to a significant development for...
Aion Classic jumps to Update 2.0 with level cap increase, and a free pet
Mount up your wings and soar like the angels, because Aion Classic's 2.0 update is finally here. The legacy edition of the MMORPG released...
Vague Patch Notes: The specter of MMO persistence in single-player games
Recently, we got a great letter from a listener asking about an issue that he'd been having with single-player games compared to MMOs. Essentially,...
Four Winds: Remembering TERA’s wild start and in-game politics
Well, the TERA sunset thing caught me off guard. I don't play TERA, but I was always under the impression that the game was...
Perfect Ten: 10 great ways to lose new players from your MMO
MMOs require new blood. Not exclusively or anything; you can keep an MMO going for quite some time on existing happy players. But existing...
Destiny 2 changes weapons, armor, activities, and Solar archetypes in the Season of the Haunted update
Over the past several weeks, Destiny 2 has been talking up the various changes coming to the shooter with the start of its next...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 374: Star Citizen, one decade later
Justin and Bree discuss the state of Star Citizen, Final Fantasy XI's 20th birthday, Guild Wars 2's Sky Pirates, DDO's Isle of Dread, and EVE Online's EVE Anywhere, plus a mailbag topic on struggling with single-player games in the wake of MMOs.
Choose My Adventure: Sampling a quick serving of player creativity in City of Heroes Rebirth
Even though City of Heroes Rebirth is a smaller rogue server in comparison to others out there, I was happy to notice that there...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV and the risk of job overload
All right, let's start this column with a little thought exercise. I want you to come up with a weapon and a general flow...
One Shots: That time when the Matrix discovered that it was in another Matrix
As we all know by now, the Matrix is everywhere, and we've consigned ourselves to a lifetime of being a battery for robots. Which...
Destiny 2 outlines changes to its upcoming summer event and fixes the so-called ‘Xur hostage exploit’
The Guardian Games are coming to an end in Destiny 2, but that just paves the way for the looter shooter's next event, which...
