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I want MMOs to waste our time again

I've accomplished very little on a Star Wars Galaxies private server, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

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WoW developers reflect on Midnight's first season—a world without AddOns, task overload, and Prey

Curse of Ul'atek comes out next week, but how has Midnight's first season gone in the eyes of its devs?

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Discussion time: Have you ever said goodbye to an MMO you've played for 1,000s of hours?

All good things come to an end.

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Question time: How long have you been playing MMOs?

A new age. Or an old one, depending.

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The Elder Scrolls Online's developer deserved better than to get sucker-punched by Microsoft twice in two years

$2 billion over 10 years can't save you from Xbox.

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This little orb's going to be sitting on my minimap for the rest of WoW's current expansion, and I couldn't tell you why

Omnium Folio, why art thou?

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Discussion time: Most big MMOs are seasonal now—do you prefer it that way, or do you loathe the FOMO checklist?

'Tis the season.

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WoW's got the right to close private servers—but in this industry layoff hellscape, I also feel like I'm watching the MMO genre's future get snuffed out

Private servers are a symptom, not the disease.

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Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies vet tells me the theme park 'assembly line' MMO just isn't viable anymore, especially as dev costs spike: 'We hit the wall'

"The MMO audience feels underserved and overmonetized, that's how they feel about what's going on."

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Question time: How often do you actually talk to strangers in MMOs?

Solo or hello?

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A toast to the wild west weirdos of the MMO goldrush—from the game that unleashed pandora's lootbox, to a deeply strange mess based off a 1996 science fiction novel

Trendsetting freaks of 2005-2015, I salute thee.

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PC Gamer's MMO readers are, according to you, fashion-forward healers who like your keybinds, and I couldn't be more proud

MMO to the polls.

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MMOs are better if classes are imbalanced—you just need to do it on purpose

Perfectly balanced, as all things shouldn't be.

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Loving MMOs in 2026 is an exercise in frustration, grief, and moving on

Allow me to get a little existential.

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WoW came back from the brink because Blizzard ran it like a live service game—but now that same tactic's threatening everything

It might be time for Blizzard to slow down.

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Final Fantasy 14's latest variant dungeon is so good, it deserves better—the MMO needs to figure out its rewards so all this great work isn't wasted

Just let me get gear, please.

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Discussion: Is it okay for an MMO expansion's launch to be buggy?

How many bugs is too many?

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World of Warcraft: Midnight's class balancing is steering the MMO headfirst into a mistake that's been haunting FF14 for years

Two minute terror.

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Question time: How many of you actually care about going fast in an MMO dungeon?

Gogogogog.

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Project: Gorgon has recaptured the old-school MMO magic I thought was dead and gone by letting me ask a pig about its mother so hard it dies

I have no idea how I'm going to get the Holistic Wellness or Civic Pride skills, but I am so excited to find out.

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Question time: What role—tank, healer, or DPS—do you actually play in MMORPGS, and why?

Party finder.

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Blitzball is alive and well in Final Fantasy 14, and I spoke to the community of passionate fans who built an entire 140-page D&D-like system to play it: 'Once you start playing, you just can't stop'

"And everyone feels like they're part of something bigger."

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WoW's rough 2.0 transmog overhaul is mostly fixed, and I'm left wondering why Blizzard didn't just take the easy win

This could've all been avoided!

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The modern MMO's biggest enemy is difficulty, because pleasing everyone is basically impossible—and yet, they must

Devs of the present, I do not envy ye.

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Confession time: How long do you stick it out before you abandon a terrible MMO dungeon/raid group?

If it sucks, do you hit da bricks?

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