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Golden Ears: XENNS Mangird Top 8BA+1DD Hybrid IEM Review
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XENNS is back with its latest pair of earphones, and we’re here for it with this edition of Golden Ears. They’re uber premium but do they offer high enough sound quality to be one of the best IEMs of 2022? Find out in this review.
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Logitech Blue Sona: Broadcaster Sounds, Sleek Style
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Logitech’s latest microphone enters into the competition for end game audio. Is the Blue Sona the mic that will shake up the existing meta?
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Herman Miller X Logitech G Vantum Gaming Chair Review
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Gaming chairs are usually large, bulky, and sometimes gaudy affairs. Herman Miller and Logitech have teamed up in another effort to buck that trend with an ergonomic chair built for gamers. Here is our review of the Herman Miller X Logitech G Vantum chair.
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Golden Ears: Focal Bathys Wireless Headphone Review
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In this edition of Golden Ears, we’re looking at the Focal Bathys, the best Bluetooth headphone with ANC of 2022.
Find out what makes it so special in this review.
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Secretlab MAGNUS Pro XL Sit-to-Stand Gaming Desk Review
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Looking for a new gaming desk? It doesn’t get much better than the Secretlab Magnus Pro XL. Find out why in this review!
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Golden Ears: V-Moda M200 ANC Review
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V-Moda has officially entered the ANC market! But is the V-Moda M200 ANC worth the high price of $480? Find out in our review!
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Fiio FW5 True Wireless Earbuds Review
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Fiio has been making some of the best wired audio products for years. How will it fare with its new pair of true wireless earbuds? Find out if the Fiio FW5 is worth a buy in this review!
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Epomaker EK68 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard Review
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Epomaker may have just delivered the best value mechanical keyboard for gamers on a budget. At only $89, the Epomaker EK68 is packed with features and offers a custom-grade typing experience at an affordable price.
Find out if it’s right for you in our review!
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Hidiz XO Balanced DAC/Amp Dongle Review
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Looking for a small but powerful way to improve the audio on everything from your smartphone to your gaming PC? The Hidiz XO balanced DAC/amp is an external soundcard that promises to do exactly that. Find out if it’s worth a buy in this review!
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DUNU Kima Earphones Review
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DUNU is back with its latest affordable IEM, but does the Kima have what it takes to be the best IEM under $120 for music and gaming? Find out in our review!
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RODE NT-USB+ Microphone Review
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RODE just re-released its most iconic USB microphone. Is the NT-USB+ the best microphone for streamers and content creators? Find out in our review!
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Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II Review
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Bose claims it has cracked the code to earbud active noise cancellation.
We went hands-on to find out. Are the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II the world’s best active noise-canceling true wireless earbuds? Find out in our review.
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AMD RX 7900 XTX and AMD RX 7900 XT Review
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AMD’s next generation of graphics cards have arrived, bringing the RDNA 3-powered RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT to consumers. These new cards aim to deliver high refresh rate gaming at 4K resolutions, as well as improve on their predecessor’s raytracing performance for gamers. But how do they stack up?
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V-Moda Crossfade 3 Wireless Review
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V-Moda has been a major player in wireless headphones and it’s officially back with its new flagship. Are the V-Moda Crossfade 3 Wireless the best wireless headphones of the year? Find out in our review!
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Epomaker EP75 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard Review
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The EP75 is the latest mechanical keyboard from Epomaker.
Featuring tri-mode wireless, bright RGB, pre-lubed switches and stabilizers, and doubleshot PBT keycaps, it’s a bargain at $99. Discover more in this review!
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MMO Week in Review: Hello to the MMOs of 2023
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The last week of the year is never huge on news, but we still had some bright spots — chief among them being the revelation that Throne and Liberty is now shooting for a global launch on both PC and console in the first half of next year.
Meanwhile, we discussed WoW’s endgame problems, grumped about the state of MMO…
MMO Year in Review: Embers and Brimstone (October 2022)
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New World picked October to launch its comeback with the Brimstone Sands launch that drove concurrency with a new leveling experience, zone, and weapon set.
Meanwhile, hardcore grouping MMO Embers Adrift made it to its official launch, Shroud of the Avatar suffered a catastrophic rollback after a botched patch, Star Citizen muddled its way through CitizenCon, The Sims 5 hinted…
Moonlight Sculptor’s latest patch added a boss fight, but had to remove it thanks to server issues
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For a brief couple of weeks, mobile MMO Moonlight Sculptor opened up a new boss fight area in its last content patch known as Marias’ Labyrinth, which invited players to face down an insect boss for gear and goodies. Unfortunately, the feature caused some form of server issues, and although the devs tried to stabilize things, the content was…
MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: Most inadvisable MMO name
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MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for most inadvisable MMO name.
(We call these silly awards the Golden Yachties in honor of that dank meme about how games bloggers sail around on a golden yacht with all their blogging money. Obviously, our yacht is constructed from rhodium-encrusted moonrock, not mere gold.)
And the winner is…
SUNSET WORLD ONLINE
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The definitive 2022 Battle Bards episode guide
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One of the side projects I work on every month is Battle Bards, the world’s first, best, and (weirdly) only music podcast. It’s a labor of love as my friend Syl and I explored several MMO soundtracks and themes this year, from the ancient Final Fantasy XIV days to the music of in-game shops and services.
If you missed out…
Happy New Year to all the uplifting things in MMOs, 2022 edition
Meta Bree Royce — 0
It’s our tradition to bundle all the reasons we can’t have nice things — all the worst things that happened to the MMORPG genre over the course of that year — and figuratively burn them in the New Year’s Eve bonfire.
We did that last night. Sorry not sorry about the creepy pic.
But as MOP’s MJ is fond of reminding…
One Shots: By the power of armpits!
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When you lost your way to Castle Greyskull and can’t find your magic transforming sword, all you can rely on is your sheer innate awesomeness — and the power of your stunning armpits — to save the day.
«So what happened was… I was reaching up trying to change a lightbulb and poof,» said Vincent from FFXIV. «I turned into…
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you expect to be your main game in 2023?
Community Eliot Lefebvre — 30
Here we are, 2023! It’s a lot like 2022 so far, except you have to put the wrong date on everything for a few weeks while you remember that it’s 2023. And it’s at the earliest point in 2023 possible, which means it’s time to ask a question that you can reflect on when the clock is winding down.
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Goodbye to all the reasons we can’t have nice things in MMOs, 2022 edition
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A few years back, we started collecting our happiest stories under the «warm fuzzies» tag and our most unpleasant ones under «this is why we can’t have nice things.» The latter are the stories that we grumble about when they land in our inbox, glare at in our newsroom, and heave a heavy sigh over when we press publish…
MMO Year in Review: The Lich King (September 2022)
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September was dominated by the ramp up of WoW Classic into its Wrath of the Lich King expansion launch, which was marred by entirely predictable queues and event bungles.
Meanwhile, Ultima Online turned 25 years old, Star Citizen’s crowdfunding total hit $500M, Bluehole gave up on Elyon, and we got launches out of Temtem, Dual Universe, and Fractured Online.
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MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: Favorite MMO site even madder about the P2E invasion than we are
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MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for favorite MMO site even madder about the P2E invasion than we are. (We call these silly awards the Golden Yachties in honor of that dank meme about how games bloggers sail around on a golden yacht with all their blogging money. Obviously, our yacht is constructed from rhodium-encrusted moonrock, not…
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v6.0
Columns Justin Olivetti — 2
And that’s a wrap on this year in history! While everyone says farewell to 2022, here at TGA we’re always looking way back at the past to see where we used to be and how the MMO genre developed. This year we touched on the familiar (Ultima Online) to the obscure (Dark Eyes) to everything in between.
As is my…
The Stream Team: Ending the year with the ending of AQ3D’s Atlantean adventure
Streams MJ Guthrie — 0
It’s the final day of 2022, so what better way to wrap up the year than by wrapping up AQ3D’s Lolosia Saga? In this final part, Massively OP’s MJ will face off against the large sea ogre Large Barge and reassemble the fabled trident, concluding the Atlantean adventure. Join us live at 12:00 p.m. for the end of 2022…
Albion Online looks back at an eventful 2022 before 2023 arrives
MMORPG Eliot Lefebvre — 0
Ah, memories of 2022. Remember that time when Albion Online gave you a gigantic bunny mount if you put in the work required to hatch it? And remember when Albion Online reworked its magic staves? And remember when Albion Online posted a retrospective of 2022, asking if you remembered the time when Albion Online added a gigantic bunny mount.
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WRUP: Months of 2023 due to budget cuts edition
Community Eliot Lefebvre — 13
Sorry, folks. We ran out of money for 2023 already. We promised to give Chris Evans all the scones he wanted if he would help us out with 2023, but it turns out that Chris Evans wants lots of very expensive scones, and we couldn’t get him enough scones. And we still had to buy him as many scones…
The Daily Grind: What MMO theme music gets you pumped to log in?
Opinion Justin Olivetti — 20
The other day I was watching a retrospective video on Star Wars Galaxies, and the host was saying how he had a hard time hitting the «play» button every time he logged in because the iconic theme would sweep him up.
A really great title theme can get you all sorts of pumped to play your MMORPG. Some of my…
The Stream Team: The whimsy of Q’s Winter Wonderland in Star Trek Online
Streams MJ Guthrie — 0
Of all the holiday events in many games, Star Trek Online’s feels the most lore appropriate and immersive to Massively OP’s MJ.
Thanks to Q’s wacky stunts and crazy abilities, making a zany winter wonderland and tossing folks into it for his own amusement is just so, well, Q. And MJ really enjoys the silliness of many of the…
Betawatch: Book of Travels disambiguates content and features
Alphas & Betas Eliot Lefebvre — 1
Have you tried to find the difference between content and features in Book of Travels? According to a new dispatch from the team on the matter, players need to realize that the reality is that features are themselves content once you engage with them, so in summary there’s plenty to do in the game and it’s not lacking in…
MMO Year in Review: DUNE, Neptune, and Island Sanctuaries (August 2022)
Meta Bree Royce — 0
Funcom took the wraps off DUNE Awakening at Gamescom in August as the studio returned to calling the game an «open world survival MMO.
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Meanwhile, Final Fantasy XIV players were enraptured with Buried Memory’s island sanctuaries, Blizzard and Netease squabbling led to the cancelation of a Warcraft mobile MMO dubbed Neptune, Wrath Classic’s prepatch was a mess of queues, Guild…
Social life sim MMO Polity enters free-to-play early access
Alphas & Betas Chris Neal — 0
Back in April 2021 we caught wind of Polity, a social-centered life sim MMO from Turkey’s Jib Games. The crux of the gameplay loop is around players either taking up the role of president for an entire country or as a citizen with quests and minigames to be had. The game entered closed beta testing in October 2021 while…
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Media about MMO-2020 — 61st International Mathematical Olympiad, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Thoughts on Psychotherapy: Is MMO a Good Option? — Offtopic on DTF
If you remember many works (and even the story of an Elf merchant), then MMO is quite a good way to reveal yourself. For example, at the age of 15, gain experience in managing an international team (hello EvE Online), make friends and interlocutors … but for some reason it is not a «silver bullet». Many players slip, can’t enter guilds and solo play… what’s wrong? nine0005
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As it was written in the previous article, changes in a person take place in 3 stages: «play yourself», «relax» and «experiments». And here modern MMOs do not show their best side.
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It is worth noting that in the anime this has already been discussed in great detail. Personally, I would recommend the light novel «SAO: Phantom Bullet», in the anime some atmospheric scenes were «optimized» and the GG became too awesome. nine0005
In short, thanks to her mother, the heroine got a panic fear of weapons: a bank robber shot a cashier and almost shot her mother, the girl took away (by biting her hand) the barrel and when trying to snatch it from her hands, she accidentally (when he grabbed her hands) shot him. Yes, her mother punished her for this, «Z — care.» And actually its plot is a search for a way to overcome the fear of real weapons.
Video contains a demonstration of exceeding the limits of permissible self-defense. nine0005
In the process of the work, suddenly, an environment is formed in which she is again threatened by danger and public acceptance of her act as positive, which caused a rethinking of events and a significant reduction in stress. Here, in fact, is the last scene (albeit with a cut off plot and denouement), where Chinon almost calmly controls an air pistol … causing the question «what the hell are you!?» at local bl… «bully girls».
…then she settled around the corner and came to her senses — but it was worth it. nine0005
4 problems of IMO for the needs of KPT.
Yes, there is more emphasis on social phobia «assorted», but let’s be honest: many problems in our society are precisely due to the fact that people are afraid to honestly say «I don’t want to clean every day!», «I love ponies», «I like Polish shooters» out of fear that they will be considered «bad».
And so that God forbid they don’t think about them, they begin to puff up, for example, finding the symbol of the power plant as something very vulgar and indecent.
And in general, most psychotherapeutic problems have approximately the same pattern of actions for a «soft» solution. nine0005
I explain: the power plant creates voltage. Voltage — discharge, alternating current. Voltage «up» — discharge «down», voltage «up» — discharge «down», LIGHTNING BREAKDOWN … shame! And how towers of power lines rise above the ground…
First, MMOs do not offer a «social learning curve». Yes, there are quests for learning how to use social mechanics, but this is not quite the same: when a person is afraid to even bother other people with a question, joining a guild itself already causes big problems. nine0005
Secondly, MMOs are interactions with real people. That is, in fact — it’s like in old games, when in order to get a weapon to kill the boss, you need to fill up the boss without this weapon.
Thirdly, MMO is interaction with living people. There is no opportunity to train in a schedule that is comfortable for the student, even more than that — there is no guarantee for the mood, etc.
Fourthly, at the junction of «second» and «third»: it is necessary that the conditions in the player’s place of residence be sufficient for staying in the game world. nine0005
And you know what’s most interesting? The main backbone of MMOs is precisely the players in MMOs. And we need to create a safe environment for a person with problems. An anecdote about motorcyclists comes to mind:
Rally of bikers, bearded men on choppers are standing, sportsmen are passing by. One of them slows down nearby:
— Guys, why don’t you get to know us?
— Why get to know you? You are new every year.
Actually, this is the key nuance of the MMO to work as a psychotherapeutic game. MMOs are great as «alternative reality» where you can play yourself or experiment, but in regular MMOs there are no mechanics that would teach and insure, do not depend on the need for specific players at a specific point in time .
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I will also note the second nuance: you cannot embrace the immensity. Surely someone will have some kind of problem that goes beyond the scope of the provided quests. But there are updates for that.
What can be done?
As I wrote in the previous article, it is possible to simply steal the plot structure from «Provincial» and «Degrees of Lewdity».
First, we need miniature local storylines. These are not dailies, but something nearby. Unlike dailies, these are essentially routine small missions (give-bring, clean pipes, kill rats, feed fish, look beautiful). But most importantly, these chains are initiated / promoted not only by the player himself, but also by NPCs and can be dropped (and this is also a valid option for completing the interaction) — this is necessary so that the player «integrates» into events, learns to «go with the flow». nine0005
Secondly, the NPCs must at least mimic the expectations of the player. If the player has gained some kind of status — to greet in an appropriate way, if the player has a certain fame — then they should speak about him in a certain way («baby, I think I saw you somewhere.
» You shudder: the whole city you «somewhere » saw).
Thirdly, NPCs must express their personal reactions to the player’s role/actions. To make fun, humiliate, admire, swear, be interested, ignore … in a word — give the player feedback. nine0005
And the icing on the cake — NPCs should be able to gather live players around them, organizing the movement of quests. This is necessary so that in difficult situations the player can relieve himself of responsibility and not be afraid to upset the team.
Majesty is a game with indirect control, where NPCs choose how to equip themselves and where to go. It would seem, throw in dialogues — and it will be the most beautiful RPG … but no.
Now a random game designer will burst in here and say «this is too much work!». nine0005
Well, shtosh, let’s try to figure it out, is it so?
Assume a simple system. All NPCs in the village have one general player rating: status before settlement, normal behavior, skill preference.
Important: this is not a GD document, it’s just «in title by title». It is necessary to fully complete this with two reference books for an advantage … in general — a lot of work.
There are 3 craftsmen in the settlement: a food harp maker, a weapon smith and a clothes weaver plus a mayor and a manager. nine0005
So, when communicating, the characters will choose vocabulary depending on the status (from spitting or even refusing to communicate at low status to respect at high), greeting depending on the player’s profession right on the fly. Something like «Hello {status_reference} {profession}.» It requires not so much scripting.
Each NPC has its own resource needs (even if they are dailies). You bring the right thing — they praise it, the unnecessary — they send it, the harmful — they scold and kick it out. nine0005
Excuse me, this is 9 states in 3 scenes: greeting (warm/neutral/cold), communication (thankful/normal/oburel!?), farewell (warm/protocol/kick in the ass).
Okay, let’s say we stop the Vangers from asking questions (like help). This is 1 more scene for each question about 3 states (question and answer options depending on the status).
5 characters, eg 20 unique «routine» quests and 50 questions «about the world» that would be (100+50)*9 = 1350 «unique lines». No, of course, the more we detail, the more content there will be, but 1350 replicas is «not so much», the volume of the draft of this article is 860 words. nine0005
You know, it doesn’t really seem to me that this is an «unbearable amount of work», unless we have a goal of releasing in a month at the most.
Even if we add a gathering of a group here, which the NPCs will round up every 15-30 minutes to raid the dungeon for some business — well, there will be a few more «greeting-communication-question-farewell» chains. But yes, it’s a slightly different mechanic, though properly connected quests will allow for «scheduling» where players independently move together.
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For example, one has the quest «heal 2000 HP, the other has the quest «get 2000 damage while protecting another player» — they don’t have to be in the party, but the game pushes them to help each other. Or the NPCs themselves apologize for the failure of the mission because of the player and somehow compensate, or at least apologize for the crooked fit, taking the negative on themselves. if all of a sudden»: many «sociophobes», in fact, are just extremely worried about the effect on others.
Summing up.
In general, MMOs are not a bad tool, but the problem is that there is no “learn to overcome the problem” training in them, when the game itself creates conditions for the player when it is more profitable for him to stretch than to vegetate, but at the same time the players are not an end in itself of the plot and entering the «NPC guild» is no less exciting than a half-dead player’s one, often this is replaced by «you don’t want to play our wonderful game enough.
