vague patch notes

It is the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy XI this week. Not the 20th anniversary of the game being in the US, and thus...

Last week, we began a discussion about the ups and downs of rogue servers in the MMO space, by which I actually mean we...

Here at MassivelyOP, we have a complicated relationship with rogue servers for MMOs. We have some pretty firm rules about when covering them is...

Richard Garriott has been to space. I'm going to repeat that a lot for emphasis, just because I feel like it's important. Richard Garriott...

Today's Vague Patch Notes is about something weird that I feel like someone should definitely done something about a long time before now. It's...

It's many years in the rear view now because these days it's someone else's show, but there was a time when Choose My Adventure...

So I was reading Chris' recent CMA entry on The Secret World, and I found myself in a curious state. I definitely agree with his initial...

So NCsoft unveiled Throne and Liberty and it looks... pretty? I guess? But it looks pretty in the worst way. It looks pretty in the...

So Guild Wars 2 had some problems with the process to unlock its siege turtle mount. As launched, it required players to take part in...

Last week's Vague Patch Notes on MMO lore and its impact on design decisions produced a lot of good comments along with a smattering...

In a previous column, I wrote about how gender-locking classes is bad. This is because it is bad. It is bad in all conceivable...

You can't swing your arms at this point without hearing about "the metaverse" in some capacity, which is supposedly the reason why Facebook changed...

As of tomorrow, we're seven years out from the launch of this site. This means that we're actually into the point when I've been...

Back when Guild Wars 2 announced the Bladesworn elite spec for Warriors, I had a little fun with the idea because... well, let's not...

Good afternoon, readers. Do you remember not so long ago when I talked about the fact that MMOs are perfectly fine as just games...

Well! It has been a week, that's for darn sure. And amidst everything else going on this particular week, it would've been easy to...

So the other day, we were reminded that Squadron 42 - which was supposed to be released back in 2014, if you can believe that...

It probably hasn't escaped anyone who has been reading my writing over the past several years that I have something of a vendetta against...

So there were some surprises when Fractured announced that it had secured a publishing deal with Gamigo, or rather that Gamigo announced that Fractured was...

It's well past time for me to get something off my chest. MMOs are dumb. MMOs are full of weird stuff. This genre is weird...