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Throne and Liberty delays global update a week, players resort to peeping the Korean patch notes

If you were gearing up for the April 2nd Throne and Liberty patch, go ahead and gear back down because it’s been delayed without any reason other than that Amazon says it wants to “ensure a smooth release,” which you would think would always be true. And unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be an April […]
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Black Desert PC begins testing PvE buffs and preparing an esports event for next Heidel Ball

How about we move over to the other desert that Pearl Abyss makes for a little while, shall we? You know, the MMORPG one? We’re talking Black Desert on PC, obviously, which is in the headlines for some PvE-centric updates available in its Global Lab public test server. As is very often the case for Global […]
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Palia’s latest patch added player profiles and old-school MMO player biographies too

It floors me to realize how very long MMORPG players have been snooping each others’ profiles in games. In Ultima Online, you had to be careful because a double-click could sometimes turn into an attack and not just a way to check out someone’s paperdoll drip. In EverQuest, it was even considered impolite to check […]
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Vague Patch Notes: The ‘eternal now’ era of MMORPGs

So there was a fun meme that was going around about four years ago in which an image of Final Fantasy IV was posted as “what people think Final Fantasy looked like 20 years ago,” followed by a picture of Final Fantasy X as “what Final Fantasy actually looked like 20 years ago.” Of course, now it’s […]
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