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All right. So we are here at long last, at the end of Leveling Month, although it's actually more like Month And A Bit....

CCP Games, like some other studios we could mention, seems to be a place where the team got one very successful MMO off the...

You know, I'm simply not a guy who likes to slap titles onto my character's name in MMOs. Never have been, probably never will...

We've been in Leveling Month over here in Vague Patch Notes, and I had intended for this particular column to close off that discussion...

Pet classes are not really my jam. I don't want my companion to be doing the tanking or damage or healing or whatever, and...

Last week, I talked about how slow leveling design could become a problem. In that piece (and the one before it - it's become...

Just because an MMORPG offers a wide array of character options doesn't mean that player interest will be equally divided among them. We've long...

The long wait is almost over. In just a few weeks, New World's soft relaunch as New World: Aeternum will be live. With so...

In gaming, I'm often fascinated by "paths less traveled." Maybe it's a leveling expansion everyone ignores, a race that's never picked for a kickball...

Last week in Vague Patch Notes, I talked about leveling. At the very end of the column, I mentioned that slow leveling or fast...

So by this point I think it's fair to say that most of our readers are aware that I love weird rabbit holes that...

No matter what you do, leveling in an MMORPG is going to be too fast. It's also going to be slow. It is the...

Despite the common perception that MMORPGs are only about smashing, slicing, and blasting foes to oblivion, these games typically offer a whole lot in...

One of the most important yet easiest to overlook parts of your character's growth in Lord of the Rings Online is investing into virtues,...

The sudden and unexpected announcement that Harry Potter: Magic Awakened is being shuttered and taken offline everywhere save the original Chinese servers came as...

If an enemy exists in an MMORPG that you are supposed to kill in some fashion, it is going to offer you some kind...

None of what I'm about to write is to meant to be self-promotion - just observation. It really hit me the other day how...

I hadn't even really thought about the fact that Champions Online has been out for 15 years now until I saw the anniversary post...

Gearing in Guild Wars 2 is simultaneously really nice and also very frustrating. It's nice because there is no uber tier of stats locked...

We've all been there at one time or another. We've been playing the same-old favorite MMO for a long time and then suddenly feel...