Category: Opinions
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Mourn your favourite game shutting down, but don’t regret playing it
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The new year has seen a host of live service titles wrapping up development. Spare a thought for their diminutive, but passionate playerbases.
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Generative AI and the future of MMO content
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MMOs have a reputation for providing hours of mindless content. Could leaving its creation to AI offer a better gameplay experience?
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We’re cheapening the artistic value of games by linking their retail cost with their length
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Big game good. Small game baaad.
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Wait, was 2022 actually a good year for Star Wars: The Old Republic?
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Story takes a back seat while SWTOR prepares for the future.
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Are we on the cusp of the next great era in MMOs?
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The rest of the decade may be packed with new MMO releases.
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Final Fantasy XIV: 5 things I loved and 3 things I didn’t
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After 300 hours of playtime across 18 months, I’ve finally finished Final Fantasy XIV‘s MSQ. Watching the end credits scroll I realized that I had just wrapped up one of the great gaming experiences of my life. A game which genuinely made me reconsider what the genre, heck even the entire medium, could achieve in…
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I finally appreciate story-driven MMOs
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Last night I decided to check out the new 1.0 update on the Star Wars Galaxies Restoration server. I created a handsome-looking Ithorian character and was promptly dropped into the middle of Mos Eisley. I had no idea what to do next. Obviously, having played the game on and off for nearly two decades, I…
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Thoughts on MMO developers saying that they want to relieve the pressure to play
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MMOs have long ceased to be a life sentence – unless you want them to be.
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Amazon needs to show more commitment if New World is to do anything but stagnate
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As the studio’s flagship title, it’s increasingly concerning that Amazon isn’t giving New World the premier IP treatment.
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