Opinion

In another theoretical timeline, there's a place where Final Fantasy XIV really would have stepped in it when it subtly noted that the game's...

Our regular readers know that the survival sandbox sub-genre is suddenly getting very crowded in very short order, which means that the upcoming gaslamp...

We have the MMORPG subreddit to thank for this morning's Daily Grind: At the beginning of January, some bright spark over there posted a...

"I do not understand how Ninja is supposed to be played," he said, "and at this point I have given up on understanding it."...

Even when you love an MMORPG a whole lot, it's rarely feasible to play it as steadily and at the same intensity over the...

Pause and think for a moment about how many MMO characters you've created in your lifetime. Is it in the dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Or...

I find myself thinking a lot about the MMORPG industry lately and the ways in which the gaming industry as a whole has changed...

A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to...

Last week, fellow MMO blogger Belghast wrote a blog post that sent a shot of panic through my own heart: He tells the tale...

A few weeks ago, two lovely gamers I follow on Bluesky were discussing how let down they felt by Diablo IV, less because Diablo...

It hasn't been all that long since I said that what City of Heroes needs to focus on right now is not endgame content,...

As an avid gamer of the '80s and '90s, I’ve got a real soft spot for all things retro-inspired. A lot of my favorites...

It struck me the other day how my two favorite MMORPGs are wildly different in terms of respecs. Final Fantasy XIV offers effectively infinite...

Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...

Stormgate's marketing is laser-focused on studio Frost Giant's plan to deliver an "RTS revolution." With StarCraft II still popular but slowly waning as it...

A few weeks back - and before we realized the game was slated for execution - MOP's Sam wrote a piece about balance in...

Justin and Bree tackle a theme proposed by the listeners, as this show is all about MMORPG housing, including why housing matters, post-launch housing patches, placement tools, prefab vs. custom houses, housing as part of the gameplay loop, apartments vs. instanced vs. open-world housing, incentivizing housing use, taxes and monetization, and integrating housing into MMO ecosystems.

Embers Adrift is probably never going to be my MMORPG, but damn I'm proud of Stormhaven Studios. Yes, I have a soft spot for...

There's a fan theory circulating that Final Fantasy XIV is the nexus of the franchise multiverse. Essentially, the idea is that Hydaelyn and Zodiark...

I have been immeasurably lucky in that I have never lost a close online friend to death, only to drifting away. But unfortunately, you...