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The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve ever walked away from MMOs – and returned?
As much as I do like MMOs, I don't feel any resentment when I see former players walk away from them. You owe nothing...
Choose My Adventure: Using the polls to take on untouched mission types in Elite Dangerous
Most of the time when I ask for pollsters to guide me to tasks in Choose My Adventure, it's just for that purpose: guidance,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would be most improved by an engine overhaul in 2025?
On MOP, we can seldom go a single day without someone in the comments wondering when a specific MMO will get an engine upgrade...
Wisdom of Nym: Thoughts on the first live letter for Final Fantasy XIV’s The Promise of Tomorrow patch
Sometimes I have to feel like the team is calling me out specifically when it comes to Final Fantasy XIV's live letters. After some back-and-forth...
The Daily Grind: How much do you care about getting through your MMO backlog?
The idea of a gaming backlog is not a new one and not at all uncommon even among MMO players, or so I'm led...
Massively on the Go: Making the most of Pokemon Go Global Go Fest 2025 and its Bottle Cap option
It's almost time, Pokemon Go trainers: Go Fest 2025 arrives June 28th to 29th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time each day,...
The Daily Grind: What’s your most hated cosmetic item in an MMORPG?
The great thing about the plethora of fashion options in Final Fantasy XIV is that no matter how you want your character to look on...
LOTRO Legendarium: What should Lord of the Rings Online’s kinship refresh include?
It does seem as though Standing Stone Games has been talking about a "kinship refresh" for Lord of the Rings Online for years now,...
The Daily Grind: Is there a genuine hunger out there for good new MMORPGs?
It was encouraging to read Fantastic Pixel Castle's Greg Street write up a manifesto (of sorts) about why he and his team are driven...
Gachapwned: The hollowness of gacha MMO shutdowns and the way you lose
Sunsets are a reality in our line of coverage. They're not a constant, of course, but there are a lot of MMORPGs that do...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best mascot?
A recent Black Desert tweet using the creepy Black Spirit mascot got me wondering why more MMOs don't have mascots. I mean, BDO deploys...
Vague Patch Notes: Control archetypes in MMORPGs are dead, but also they aren’t
Recently, we got a very fun podcast question from Merp asking if control/debuff archetypes in MMORPGs were dead. This is a good question! It's...
The Daily Grind: What do you consider the most annoying part of survival sandboxes?
Some people love survival sandboxes and some people do not, but today's Daily Grind is not about that. No matter how much you love...
MMO Hype Train: Dune Awakening stumbles, trips, and sometimes sprints in its early experience
It does seem appropriate that for a series about the fight over a planet filled with a rare resource, Dune Awakening has played tug-o'-war...
Perfect Ten: 10 awesome reasons to go back to older MMORPGs
Because this site is staffed by us Olds, we tend to remember the history of this ridiculous genre pretty well. This is materially helped...
The Daily Grind: Are you pro-cape or anti-cape in MMOs?
One of the fascinating bits of City of Heroes' history is that this superhero MMO originally launched without the ability to equip capes to...
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s latest seasonal server is anything but hardcore
One of my biggest frustrations with the current state of New World is that the open world has lost most of the challenge that...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO that people are sleeping on?
I would like to think that most of our readers are familiar with lots of MMORPGs, seeing as they read about them here. But...
Wisdom of Nym: What if Final Fantasy XIV stops adding new jobs?
One of the constants that underpins the speculation that lots of players, including me, have about Final Fantasy XIV's future expansions - beyond the...
The Daily Grind: How do you manage your MMORPG alts?
You might not know this about me, but I'm a bit of a spreadsheet junkie. I have spreadsheets for literally everything, especially for my...
