The Daily Grind: What isn’t explained well enough in your MMO?
Your MMO can have the best, most flexible systems and the most robust options -- but if nobody but your devs and elite players...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 417: Happy Compensation Day!
Justin and Bree discuss World of Warcraft, New World, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, Amazon Games' layoffs, and Ghostcrawler's new MMO studio, with adventures in LOTRO and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on problematic MMO speedrunning.
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s Typhlosion summons ghost of former self for raids
Good news for players who enjoyed the Hisuian pokemon typings in Pokemon Legends: Arceus: The next tera raid event for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet...
Choose My Adventure: The Songblade makes Neverwinter’s Bard rock even harder
Most of the time when I'm beaten over the head by an MMORPG's meta, I tend to thumb it in the eye and tacitly...
Wisdom of Nym: This is how Final Fantasy XIV wants you to play, even if it doesn’t say so
It is not a surprise that Final Fantasy XIV wants you to play the game a certain way. There are mechanics in place to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have the least fair regional pricing?
Last week, we got a letter from a gamer in Türkiye (hiya kaickul!) who was frustrated with Blizzard's regional pricing for Diablo II Resurrected...
Casually Classic: 20 tips for surviving the WoW Classic community’s hardcore mode
"Just one more hour of WoW Classic. One more hour, then I'll go and play something serious. Or be a productive member of society....
The Daily Grind: Does it bug you when MMO cash shops rotate out their buyables?
One of my few pet peeves with Guild Wars 2 has been the design of its cash shop, which traditionally has rotated through its...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever had an MMO that serves as your guilty pleasure?
As a rule, I don't do guilty pleasures. It's not something that I personally believe in. Not in the sense that I'm unfamiliar with...
The Game Archaeologist: Pirates of the Caribbean Online
In 1967, Disneyland opened one of its most iconic attractions: a dark boat ride called Pirates of the Caribbean. A large fandom surrounding the...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever played an R-rated MMO?
If we were to transfer MMOs over to the realm of movies and give each an MPAA rating, we'd most likely see a lopsided...
Global Chat: Do MMOs need help from artificial intelligence?
With tech news becoming more and more dominated by the sophistication and place of artificial intelligence, blogger Tobold asks if AI might be the...
Storyboard: Pros and cons for scripted narrative stories in MMOs
Last week, we looked at the pros and cons for stories in MMOs that were purely player-driven, or at least using player actions and...
The Daily Grind: Would you play an MMO with a premade character?
I tend to think that if I were trying to come up with a list of mechanics and concepts and features that pretty much...
Massively Overthinking: Tabletop and boardgames for MMORPG players
Last week, following the crowdfunding of an Elder Scrolls boardgame, the MOP staff got derailed by a discussion on boardgame prices (it's expensive, y'all)....
Vague Patch Notes: E3 is gone, but it’s only half a victory
So E3 is dead, and we've already shared some of our thoughts on the matter earlier this week. But as someone who literally wrote...
The Daily Grind: What’s your self-admitted dumbest reason for not playing an MMO?
There are a lot of super valid reasons to not play an MMO. It's an open PvP game and you don't like that, for...
Massively on the Go: It’s Pokemon NO time again for Pokemon Go players
Niantic is the master of drip information, and most of it is both poor and incomplete, which is why we relegate most Pokemon GOÂ news...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMO promises that are not filling me with confidence
Every game's development - and this includes MMOs - involves certain promises being made that the developers probably half-knows are not going to wind...
The Daily Grind: How do you handle online gacha games?
With titles like Genshin Impact and Tower of Fantasy making inroads with the online RPG genre, it's probably best that we had a discussion...
