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RuneScape Dragonwildsโ€™ Dowdun Reach is live today with new quest content and dedicated servers

As promised, RuneScape Dragonwildsโ€™ 0.11 patch has entered the survival sandboxโ€™s early access chat today, bearing the uncomfortable name Dowdun Reach, which either sounds like โ€œdowdyโ€ or reminds me of Downton Abbey every single time I see it. The patch itself is anything but dowdy, however, as players are looking at new quests, new building [โ€ฆ]
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The Daily Grind: Have you ever lost anything in an MMORPG rollback?

In the long long ago, rollback in MMOs were pretty common. Because of Ultima Onlineโ€™s infrastructure, we saw rollbacks that first year of play weekly โ€“ more if you count the daily server reboot that always lost a few minutes (and became a free-for-all once players figured it out. But over time, rollbacks became so [โ€ฆ]
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The Daily Grind: Be honest, how many of your MMO houses are just a box?

A few weeks back, there was an article on PC Gamer that actually made me laugh out loud. โ€œIโ€™m sick of the survival crafting โ€˜Cubeโ€™ and calling the gamer HOA on all of you,โ€ author Andrea Shearon declared. I feel extremely called out because I literally have one of these in Palia; I bought a [โ€ฆ]
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Massively Overthinking: Is there a specific year of MMOs youโ€™re glad you lived through?

This weekโ€™s Massively Overthinking is inspired directly by something MOP reader Zulika said last month in comments about Smedโ€™s new MMOFPS. โ€œMore and more I am just glad past me was around to experience MMOs starting in 2000.โ€ OK, obviously Zulika was throwing deserved shade on some of 2025โ€™s excesses, but letโ€™s talk about more [โ€ฆ]
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Paliaโ€™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 othersโ€™ 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 someoneโ€™s paperdoll drip. In EverQuest, it was even considered impolite to check [โ€ฆ]
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