Category: MMORPGs
The Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game genre is not dead in 2025. It is something far worse: a patient on corporate life support, its vital signs—subscription numbers and quarterly earnings—masking …
If you want to see the pure, unadulterated will of the MMO playerbase, ignore the glossy trailers for the next forgettable live-service sequel. Look to the shadows. Look to the …
Jeff Butler, former Lead Producer of EverQuest, has cancelled his original account—one of the oldest in existence—and walked away. He did not leave out of boredom. He left because the …
If you want to see what the total capture of games journalism looks like, you need look no further than the recent, fawning coverage of Daybreak Games’ legal victory over …
There is a single, devastating paradox at the heart of the modern corporate world, and the impending downfall of Turtle WoW exposes it completely: The relentless pursuit of ESG and …
On August 25, Blizzard sued Turtle-WoW, demanding nearly a billion dollars in statutory damages, domain seizure, wallet freezes, and a permanent injunction. This isn’t just another IP enforcement action. It’s …
Rachel Kowert and Linda Schlegel’s Gaming and Extremism markets itself as scholarship, but it functions as a taxpayer-funded panic pamphlet. Its real product isn’t knowledge—it’s fear. Funded by a $699,978 …
EverQuest isn’t dying — it’s being put down, and its owners know it. In an internal HR memo dated February 11, 2025 — leaked via Discord — the 25-year-old MMO …
Amazon walked into Middle-earth with Rings of Power and left with a bruised reputation, a fractured fanbase, and a billion-dollar reminder that you can’t buy love with spectacle and token …
Jason Schreier’s new book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment reads like a eulogy written by the wrong priest. It’s reverent, selective, and ultimately dishonest—not because …
Once hailed as one of the most important MMORPGs in gaming history, EverQuest is no longer being neglected. It is being deliberately dismantled. And the world finally saw proof when …
What if the “dream job” you applied for was never real? What if the company behind it had no intention of hiring you — only of reading your ideas? That’s …
