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Vague Patch Notes is a meta design column by Eliot Lefebvre. [Follow this column’s RSS feed]

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Vague Patch Notes: MMO quality and the bandwagon fallacy

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Here's a fact that is objectively true but feels objectively false: There's no law stating that the best MMO of all time, to date,...
Tumble.

Vague Patch Notes: Finger-pointing in the MMO and multiplayer games industry

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I know for a fact that I've already made the joke at this point about how Babylon's Fall just straight-up Babylon Fell, but the...
eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Vague Patch Notes: Why are mobile MMOs Like That?

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If you have read my writing a bunch over the years, you have probably observed me mentioning how much I like Final Fantasy Tactics...
Gusts 'n' stuff

Vague Patch Notes: Mandatory content and game design in MMOs

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Let me tell you about my second roommate in college. He was named Kyle, and he was benefiting from the fact that I had...
This non-game sucks, Beavis.

Vague Patch Notes: The perpetual MMO crowdfunding engine

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Do me a favor right now and navigate over to the Star Citizen webpage. It's possible that this has wildly changed in the time...
Not so much.

Vague Patch Notes: Queues do not tell the story of an MMO’s success

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It's time to talk about queues to log in to a game, and you know what game we have to talk about in this...
getty

Vague Patch Notes: The MMORPG industry shockwaves that still reverberate

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A thought occurred to me the other day regarding World of Warcraft and the way that it deformed the MMO industry: People who are...
I grew up on a farm.

Vague Patch Notes: The gating of time in MMO content

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People are over the moon about the Island Sanctuaries added in the most recent update to Final Fantasy XIV, and I entirely include myself...
Arenatacular!

Vague Patch Notes: Novelty is a contradiction in an MMORPG genre that discourages it

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The newest member of the Big Five in the MMO space released in the west back in 2015, which was seven years ago now....
Ladies.

Vague Patch Notes: The perils of comparing MMOs to each other

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So the other day I read perhaps the worst Tower of Fantasy review I could have possibly read. It was most certainly not the...
Unappealing!

Vague Patch Notes: No, Little Orbit has not solved the MMO blockchain problem

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It looks like we have indeed lived long enough to see the heroes become the villains: Little Orbit, which we once lionized for saving...
You want to live here, huh?

Vague Patch Notes: Why sticking to one MMO is the smart thing to do

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I have never been much of a roamer. Some people are, and that's fine; the world needs different sorts of people, and for some...
Anybody wanna do a mage?

Vague Patch Notes: The many flavors of ‘boosting’ in the MMO genre

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The other day MOP's Bree and I were having a discussion about boosting. This is not entirely unusual, but it was unusual insofar as...
This be he

Vague Patch Notes: Themepark MMOs need open spaces, too

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Let me start off this particular column with a story about Star Wars: The Old Republic. I've mentioned before how this was a game...
Shiny!

Vague Patch Notes: Yes, sandbox MMOs need tutorials and guidance, too

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I'm going to make some sandbox fans a little miffed right here with my opening premise. Yes, your sandbox MMO needs tutorials and probably...
Always the level.

Vague Patch Notes: A love letter to the people going above and beyond in the MMO genre

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Let's just lead off with a very simple statement. Hey there, teams out there working on MMOs and doing more than you need to?...
We're still here, yes.

Vague Patch Notes: You are not immune to predatory monetization in MMOs

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This week, I want to expand on something I mentioned in last week's Vague Patch Notes as an offhand thing that bears further examination....
Thanks. Really.

Vague Patch Notes: Examples of predatory monetization in the MMO industry

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So, if you've been paying attention to this column over the past few forevers, you will have no doubt noticed by this point that...
Oh dear.

Vague Patch Notes: Mobile MMOs, free-to-play MMOs, and the path of microtransactions

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When I first started playing Magic: the Gathering, Revised was the new hotness and I got used to the idea that Serra Angel was...
Let's eat-a the pizz-a

Vague Patch Notes: The specter of MMO persistence in single-player games

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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,...

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