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Vague Patch Notes: Do you guys not make friends?
Every so often, MOP's Bree and I engage in a game that I like to call "She's Not Crazy" wherein Bree will talk about...
MMO Hype Train: Is it smart or foolish for upcoming MMOs to embrace hardcore attitudes?
With the collapse of the World of Warcraft clone trend that dominated the MMORPG development landscape for so long, we've seen a sort of...
Perfect Ten: 10 amazing MMO starter zones
With how often we find ourselves starting up new characters and rolling alts in MMORPGs, it's no surprise that we develop a lot of...
Vague Patch Notes: The complex feelings of a static MMORPG
Final Fantasy XIV recently finished up its crossover with Final Fantasy XI, and I have to admit that the very last shot of the crossover...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with player-generated content that somehow didn’t require blockchain
So John Smedley, ahead of the early access launch of Reaper Actual, decided to yet again defend the game having a crypto version by claiming...
WoW Factor: The glaring hole in World of Warcraft’s class line-up
There is a hill I am willing to die on. Some might call it a petty hill. I wouldn't, but some might. It's something...
Vague Patch Notes: Stories in MMOs have always been here
When I started brainstorming my column for this week, the first thing I started thinking about was talking about the terrible yet wonderful story...
WoW Factor: The times when World of Warcraft’s story did everything right
There's been a lot of criticism of the story in World of Warcraft's latest expansion, Midnight, especially from yours truly. There is often a...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that indulge in character multiclassing and subclassing
With both the recently revealed EverQuest Legends and Hollowed Oath making multiclassing a core feature of their game designs, it seemed like the perfect...
Vague Patch Notes: The bad data problem with MMOs
Do you want to know how many monthly active players Guild Wars 2 has? If so, I've got a math exercise for you. (If not,...
Perfect Ten: Warframe is the most mobile gacha cash grab game that isn’t any of those things
If there's one thing I know in this world... well, actually, that's Transformers. But if there's one video game-related thing I know in this...
LOTRO Legendarium: One change I’d make for each of LOTRO’s classes
We all know that every MMO player is, deep down, an amateur backseat developer. We can't help it! When we play these games for...
Vague Patch Notes: No, ‘foreigners’ are not coming for the American games industry
I guess last week I sort of committed to doing a two-part column on that wild piece by Dr. Joost van Dreunen regarding the...
Perfect Ten: Old MMORPGs we used to talk about all the time but aren’t mentioned today
We've been covering MMORPGs here at MassivelyOP and Massively-that-was for a very long time. So you can imagine that there have been many seasons...
LOTRO Legendarium: The weirdest things about Lord of the Rings Online
I've long ago realized that every single person in the world is deeply weird in some way, just that some are better at hiding...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s never told a big story well, but it does organic tales better
A few weeks ago, my fellow World of Warcraft columnist Tyler gifted us with an honest overview of Midnight's main storyline, concluding that it...
Vague Patch Notes: Cringe is good
So in the wake of what appears to be going on with Lost Ark's layoffs and likely impending publisher handover, the MOP writers were talking...
Perfect Ten: MMOs whose sequels struggled to land
It kind of surprises me how often some video games barely got sequels. Like, at this point the fact that there were tons of Mega...
Into the Super-verse: Why is City of Heroes still the superhero MMORPG standard bearer?
So I don't think many people will argue with my assertion that City of Heroes is the gold standard for developing a superhero MMORPG. I...
Vague Patch Notes: In MMORPGs, one person’s rush is another person’s idle
So a new World of Warcraft expansion has arrived, and this means that as always, everyone has an opinion on how you are supposed to...
