Tag: MMO

Embracer sells yet more studios, as its restructuring programme limps on

Embracer sells yet more…

Embracer is selling off yet another two studios from its expansive portfolio, following years of acquisitions and layoffs as…
How to maximize your island sanctuary in Final Fantasy 14 without being too sweaty

How to maximize your…

The Final Fantasy 14 community is one of the best and most welcoming in the world of MMOs, but…
Cozy MMO Palia is threatening players with an increasingly enormous stuffed frog if they keep wishlisting it on Steam

Cozy MMO Palia is…

Cozy life and farming sim MMO Palia launched in open beta last year as a free-to-play game with its…
How Blizzard balances and rebalances World of Warcraft’s raids to evolve with players: ‘It is important to keep in mind the audience that is engaging with an encounter at a given time’

How Blizzard balances and…

For an online game's long-term success, balance is king. For massively multiplayer online games with dozens of character types…
The server tech that saved WoW 10 years ago is causing problems for Classic’s Season of Discovery, dev reveals: ‘a layer is actually just sharding with a lot of sticky tape’

The server tech that…

The second season of WoW classic's Season of Discovery (SoD) is live—and the layers are acting up again, this…
11 things I wish I knew before playing Skull and Bones

11 things I wish…

I've been boating around Skull and Bones for about thirty hours now, but I probably could have achieved the…
Raids just landed in solo ‘simulated MMO’ Erenshor

Raids just landed in…

If hell is other people, heaven might just be Erenshor—assuming you like old-school MMOs in the style of EverQuest,…
Question time: How long have you been playing MMOs?

Question time: How long…

Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll…
World of Warcraft’s lead storyteller quietly left Blizzard last fall: ‘I’ve felt the itch to stretch my creativity in new directions’

World of Warcraft’s lead…

The World of Warcraft community discovered almost by accident recently that the lead creator of the game's stories had…
World of Warcraft’s subscription is about to get almost 3,000% more expensive in Argentina—and it’ll ‘only get worse with inflation’

World of Warcraft’s subscription…

Last month, Argentinian World of Warcraft players found a nasty surprise in their inbox—an email from Blizzard announcing two…