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We talk a lot about bad games—there's an endless supply—but today we want to know what the worst MMO on Steam is. If you need a place to start, we do have a worst free-to-play MMOs on Steam released in 2016 list, but that ought to just be a launching pad. Except for me, because I sifted through the mire [...]
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Do you remember walking into town and seeing the onslaught of player-runs shops? AFKers showing off their wares to passerbys, hoping to snag some zeny for items they collect on their adventures. I miss those days. What happened to player run shops? Nothing says community like an economy. But so many games lately seem to undermine their economies by limiting [...]
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It's that time of year where we decide to put away our selfishness and try and be a little thankful for things in our life: friends, family, communities. But c'mon what we're really thankful for is games, cause we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them. So I want to show my thanks for a few aspects of MMORPGs [...]
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Tis the season when every MMO runs a similar event: goofy skins, ghosts, and rhyming posts. It's Halloween, my favorite time of year for in-game events. I'm all about cobwebs and spiders and wearing bedsheets which is why I stopped cleaning my apartment on October 1st. But there's more to in-game events then just Halloween. And on this special Tuesday we [...]
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Great marketing loves buzzwords: the terms that by themselves draws your mouse one page closer to clicking "pre-order." I'm starting to believe that "procedural generation" is the latest word to join the buzzword dictionary. While algorithmically created universes are neat as a concept, even mirroring our own spontaneous world, they're missing something. There's a special quality in knowing that an invisible hand wanted you to [...]
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In an article on PC Gamer, co-founder of Epic Games Tim Sweeney worries that Microsoft is trying erode Steam's influence by creating compatibility issues in future Windows updates. It wouldn't be the first attempt by a company to cut in on Valve's turf. UPlay, Origin, Arc, Nexon Launcher and Aeria Ignite are all similarly designed digital distribution platforms. They lump [...]
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I tend to gravitate towards a class archetype as I bounce from one MMORPG to the next. When I was an edgy teen wearing a black shirt with "Ramones" splashed across the front, I played Rogues: the surreptitious rebels of virtual worlds. Regardless of the game played I chose classes with moves labeled something like "sneak," "cloak," "invisibility." During my [...]
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