| Costumes, Names, and More! |
10/15/07 |
Community Blog Spotlight
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This week, Community Manager Laura Genender uses her spotlight to talk about MMORPG.com user wan7830's blog that takes an interesting look at everything from costumes to names.
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Laura Genender |
| Keeping the Wow in WoW: Trapped in Outland |
10/16/07 |
Joe's World... of Warcraft
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This week, Joe Iuliani sets his sights on on ways that Blizzard can get level 70 players back into their home areas.
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Joe Iuliani |
| What MMOs Might Learn from Resident Evil 4 |
10/17/07 |
Beyond the MMORPG
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Today in his Beyond the MMORPG column, Managing Editor Jon Wood discusses Resident Evil 4, and suggests some of the ways that MMOs might capture that game's feeling of suspense.
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Jon Wood |
| Something for Everyone? |
10/18/07 |
Community Forum Spotlight
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Community Manager Laura Genender looks at the idea of trying to please everyone in MMO design as she examines a forum thread on the subject.
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Laura Genender |
| Happy Games Make Me Want to Kill |
10/19/07 |
MMOWTF
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In this short-but-sweet edition of MMOWTF, Dan Fortier takes a swing at what he calls "kiddie MMOs", friendship meters, decorating contests and the like.
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Dan Fortier |
| Competitive PvE? |
10/22/07 |
Community Blog Spotlight
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In this week's Community Blog Spotlight, Community Manager Laura Genender highlights two blogs with opposing viewpoints about PvE and the competitive nature of MMOs.
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Laura Genender |
| Neverwinter Nights: What's in it for MMOs? |
10/23/07 |
Beyond the MMORPG
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This week in Beyond the MMORPG, Dan Fortier steps out of his usual mud-slinging role to talk about Neverwinter Nights and elements from that game that could be of use in the modern MMO.
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Dan Fortier |
| All Around Norrath - Remember When? |
10/24/07 |
EverQuest II
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Today, we kick off a new column as Adele Caelia travels the world of Norrath in EverQuest II, talking to players about their experiences. Today, she talks to folks about their fondest EQII memories, and shares some of her own.
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Adele Caelia |
| What's in the News? |
10/25/07 |
Community Spotlight
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Managing Editor Jon Wood fills in for the Community Spotlight today, taking a look at two of the hottest topics on our boards, the indefinite hold of Gods & Heroes and the rumored confirmation that BioWare's new MMO will be based on the Knights of the Old Republic franchise.
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Jon Wood |
| Mature Ratings |
10/26/07 |
MMOWTF
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In this week's MMOWTF column, Dan Fortier takes on the ESRB's "Mature" rating and suggests that there is very little mature about an M-rated game.
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Dan Fortier |
| Starting Over in WoW |
10/29/07 |
Community Blog Spotlight
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Laura Genender returns with a new Community Blog Spotlight this week, highlighting Ceejay9's blog that details that user's experiences "starting over" in World of Warcraft.
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Laura Genender |
| Guilding |
10/31/07 |
Joe's World... of Warcraft
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Today, Joe Iuliani focuses his WoW spotlight on using guilds in WoW.
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Joe Iuliani |
| Horror |
11/02/07 |
MMOWTF
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This week, Dan Fortier waxes poetic about bringing a truly scary MMORPG to the market and what that might entail from developers and players alike.
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Dan Fortier |
| WAR, TR and EVE |
11/03/07 |
Editor's Week in Review
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In this new column, MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood sums up his thoughts on some of the happenings around the world of MMOs in the past week. This week, he talks about Warhammer Online's release date being pushed back, Tabula Rasa and EVE Online.
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Jon Wood |
| Blogging on Tabula Rasa |
11/05/07 |
Community Blog Spotlight
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Continuing today's Tabula Rasa theme, Laura Genender shines her Community Spotlight on MMORPG.com user Chryses and his recent blog entry about his personal experiences playing TR.
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Laura Genender |
| All Around Norrath: Kunark Expansion |
11/07/07 |
EverQuest II
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In her bi-weekly All Around Norrath column, Adele Caelia travels the world of EQII to speak with the players about the game. This week she asks them: “What are your hopes and expectations for the upcoming expansion Rise of Kunark?”
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Adele Caelia |
| The Future of MMOs |
11/08/07 |
Community Forum Spotlight
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This week in her Forum Spotlight column, Community Manager Laura Genender takes a look at a thread that suggests that MMOs are dying.
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Laura Genender |
| Expansions |
11/09/07 |
MMOWTF
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This week in his MMOWTF column, Staff Writer Dan Foriter tackles the subject of expansions to popular MMORPGs.
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Dan Fortier |
| City of Heroes Sale and Age of Conan |
11/10/07 |
Editor's Weekly Round-Up
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In his second weekly round-up, MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood gives his opinion on some of the issues from the last week, namely the sale of City of Heroes and the recent announcement that a character from Age of Conan will make an appearance in Playboy magazine.
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Jon Wood |
| We're All Orcs? |
11/12/07 |
Community Blog Spotlight
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In this week's Community Blog Spotlight, Laura Genender takes a look at a blog that asks what ever happened to feeling special and different in an MMORPG?
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Laura Genender |
| Patch 2.3 |
11/14/07 |
Joe's World... of Warcraft
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IN this World of Warcraft column this week, Jo Iuliani takes a quick look at patch 2.3 and gives his impressions.
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Joe Iuliani |
| Rise of Kunark |
11/22/07 |
All Around Norrath
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In her weekly All Around Kunark column, Adele Caelia interviews players of EverQuest II in-game to find out their opinions on a variety of subjects. Today, it's the Rise of Kunark expansion.
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Adele Caelia |
| Do Game Companies Charge for Beta? |
11/23/07 |
Community Forum Spotlight
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Community Manager Laura Genender take a look at an MMORPG.com forum thread that asks the question: "Why do MMO companies think they can charge monthly for a beta game?"
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Laura Genender |
| Pre-Order Syndrome |
11/23/07 |
MMOWTF
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This week in his MMOWTF column, Dan Fortier takes on the subject of pre-orders and whether or not we should be paying for them.
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Dan Fortier |
| Public Raids |
11/26/07 |
Community Blog Spotlight
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Community Manager Laura Genender takes some time this week to talk about the broader application of the WAR public quest system and whether or not, as a user blog suggests, it could be the basis of a game rather than as an additional feature.
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Laura Genender |
| Three Years |
11/28/07 |
Joe's World... of Warcraft
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In this edition of his bi-weekly column, MMORPG.com Staff Writer Joe Iuliani takes a look back at the last three years of World of Warcraft, including some of the changes and its influence on pop culture.
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Joe Iuliani |
| Journeys and Destinations |
11/29/07 |
Community Forum Spotlight
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In this Community Forum Spotlight, Community Manager Laura Genender takes a look at whether or not the art of the journey is lost in today's mad scramble to hit max level.
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Laura Genender |
| Mob Mentality |
11/30/07 |
MMOWTF
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In this week's MMOWTF, Dan Fortier tackles the issue of monster AI in MMORPGs. Fortier feels that monsters today just don't have the intelligence to pose a real challenge to human players.
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Dan Fortier |
| Assassin's Creed |
12/04/07 |
Beyond the MMORPG
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In our Beyond the MMORPG column, we take a look at a game that doesn't fit into our genre and speculate about how that game could be used to positively influence our genre. This week ,Donna Desborough takes a peek at Assassin's Creed.
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Donna Desborough |
| What's in a Name? |
12/07/07 |
MMOWTF
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Weekly MMORPG Columnist Dan Fortier uses his time this week to gripe about naming policies in MMOs.
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Dan Fortier |
| PvP in MMOs: What Gamers Want |
12/10/07 |
Community Blog Spotlight
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This week in her MMORPG.com Community Forum Spotlight column, Community Manager Laura Genender discusses a user blog involving PvP and what kinds of experiences players are looking for.
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Laura Genender |
| Waiting for Lich King? What to Do? |
12/12/07 |
Joe's World... of Warcraft
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In Joe Iuliani's World of Warcraft column this week, he discusses the feeling of futility that he is feeling in waiting for the new WoW expansion, and offers some suggestions to players of things to do in the meantime.
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Joe Iuliani |
| Affluenza |
12/13/07 |
Community Forum Spotlight
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Not to be confused with the viral influenzsa, affluena is actually "a state of extreme materialism which is the impetus for accumulating wealth and for overconsumption of goods; also, feelings of guilt and isolation from the dysfunctional pursuit of wealth and goods." In her Forum Spotlight, Laura Genender looks at a thread that tackles this interesting concept in how it relates to MMORPGs.
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Laura Genender |
| MMOWTF Awards |
12/14/07 |
MMOWTF
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Dan Fortier, being the rabble-rouser that he is, has opened the voting on his own awards to coincide with our Reader's Choice Awards. The MMOWTF Awards celebrate and glorify all that you, the MMOWTF readers, hated about 2007.
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Dan Fortier |
| Questioning the Crutch |
12/17/07 |
Community Blog Spotlight
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Over-powered skills and abilities in games are often referred to as "crutches". Today, Laura Genender takes a look at an MMORPG.com blog that brings the idea of "the crutch" into question.
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Laura Genender |
| Conan |
12/18/07 |
Beyond the MMORPG
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In this Beyond the MMORPG column, Managing Editor Jon Wood takes a look at a small aspect of the recently released Conan game for the XBox 360 and expresses concerns about "franchise" or IP MMORPGs.
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Jon Wood |
| MMOWTF Award Winners |
12/21/07 |
MMOWTF
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Last week, Dan Foriter opened up voting on the worst games of 2007. Today, he posts the results along with his own picks.
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Dan Fortier |
| Story - Smackdown vs. Raw |
12/24/07 |
Beyond the MMORPG
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In this Christmas Eve edition of Beyond the MMORPG, Managing Editor Jon Wood uses Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 to discuss storytelling in MMORPGs.
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Jon Wood |
| What's in a Game? |
12/27/07 |
Community Spotlight - Forums
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Community Manager Laura Genender uses her Community Spotlight this week to talk about the different ways in which people can enjoy MMORPGs, and the ways in which some games are better suited to some play styles than others.
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Laura Genender |
| It's the End of the World |
12/28/07 |
MMOWTF
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In his MMOWTF column this week, Dan Fortier takes a look back at the year 2007 and some of the news stories that dominated MMO headlines.
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Dan Fortier |
| Online Friends |
01/03/08 |
Community Spotlight
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Community Manager Laura Genender takes a look at the concept of online friends and looks at a forum post that brings to question the concept of friendships in MMOs, and what communities best foster these long-lasting relationships.
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Laura Genender |
| A Look Ahead at 2008 |
01/04/08 |
MMOWTF
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MMOWTF columnist Dan Fortier brings his own brand of cynicism and sarcasm to a look at what MMORPG fans can expect from the industry in the coming year.
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Dan Fortier |
