It might be too much to say that I feel bad for Hi-Rez, but it seems like they’ve been continually making Global Agenda freer and freer. First they removed the monthly subscription in favor of an incremental-expansion model akin to Guild Wars’. They just sent out an announcement today proclaiming …

 
I saw Guild Wars 2 at PAX East this year and it continues to look incredible, both visually and mechanically. Unfortunately I was not able to make it to ArenaNet’s panel on designing next gen fantasy MMOs because the auditorium filled up way before I got there. Thankfully, ANet has …

It is difficult to take a critical look at massively multiplayer online games.  They’re huge, for one thing and are largely dependent on extraneous variables such as the community that populates them and the quality of post-release support.  However, as a genre the MMO is an important and unusual entity.  We are …