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Perfect Ten is a humorous list-themed feature column by Justin Olivetti and Eliot Lefebvre. [Follow this column’s RSS feed]

Perfect Ten: 25 text-based MMOs and MUDs that are worth playing in 2023

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Wanderlust hits even the most content MMO adventurer from time to time, and while there are worlds a-plenty to visit, sometimes it is easy...
The yeller.

Perfect Ten: 10 ways World of Warcraft feels like a dead mall

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There was a time that I lived next to a very small mall that's tucked kind of out-of-the-way in a part of my state....

Perfect Ten: 10 reasons New World deserves a second look

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If you were one of the many, many players who skipped off New World after giving it an initial try, well, we don't blame...
WHY IS STUFF SO HARD?!

Perfect Ten: Ten MMO promises that are not filling me with confidence

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Every game's development - and this includes MMOs - involves certain promises being made that the developers probably half-knows are not going to wind...

Perfect Ten: 10 features that take Star Trek Online out of this world

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In returning to Star Trek Online after a couple of years away, I did something brand-new this time around: I brought my Star Trek-obsessed...
Hey-nonny-nonny

Perfect Ten: A primer on 10 very basic MMO fight mechanics

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When the first two humans decided to get into a fight, they were just pushing one another and telling the other person to quit...
Remember me? Someone is hoping you don't!

Perfect Ten: 10 pieces of striking MMO cover art

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Earlier this year, MMO Folklorist posted a rather intriguing article about the 10 best MMO box art designs -- at least in his opinion....
Actually developing a title to not be a boring slog is a skill some developers have yet to master.

Perfect Ten: 10 franchises that deserve another shot at an MMO

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Some experiments are attempted once and fail, and it's not hard to figure out why that didn't work. We don't really need to take...

Perfect Ten: 10 small Guild Wars 2 details that make it special

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I find that there's this special window of time that happens when you return to an old favorite MMO that shouldn't be missed. It's...
Zone!

Perfect Ten: 10 things I really dislike about Final Fantasy XIV

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Sometimes, when I have a series of columns planned, I start off by saying, "Hey, here's a series of columns I plan." And sometimes...

Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best

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When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: 10 things I really dislike about Final Fantasy XI

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You don't have to dig very far to find my articles saying nice things about Final Fantasy XI. I say them often. I'd be...

Perfect Ten: 10 dead MMOs that should be revived for a second chance

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I have always felt that it's such an enormous waste of everything when a live MMORPG is sunsetted and access to it is gone...
Fighty fight fight.

Perfect Ten: Tutorial topics every MMO really needs to cover

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Tutorials are important in MMOs. No MMO has a great one, unfortunately. I don't just mean in the cases where returning players could use...

Perfect Ten: Why it’s better than ever to be an MMO fan in 2023

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Welcome to 2023! You probably didn't need that heads-up, but you're getting it even still. I'm quite excited about the year to come in...
This is fine.

End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2023

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Years ago, I did the first version of this yearly column in a one-off format in the middle of the year just because I...

End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023

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You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that was actually true, then my job to round...
It's Cid! Hi Cid! Fix this.

End-of-Year Eleven: The best value MMOs going into 2023

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Every year when I do this post, I muse about what "value" actually means for MMOs because it's actually a tricky proposition and that...
How charmingly old world.

End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO expansions and updates of 2022

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One of the underrated aspects of being an MMO player is that our games get more updates and expansions than almost any other type...
Run! They've got a New World in the sidecar!

End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2022

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I might be biased - by which I mean I am definitely biased - but 2022 was a year of big stories and big...

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