Every MMO. Every date. Checked.
15 games have a page here. Each one opens with what the game actually is, in plain words, for somebody who has never played it. Then everything we have published about it, then every date we are tracking for it with the source on the row. Across all of them that is 31 articles and 39 tracked rows.
Aion 2 is a fantasy world called Atreia where your character has wings and uses them. Flight is part of the fighting and the exploring, rather than a travel shortcut. You pick a side at the start, Elyos or Asmodian, and that choice sets your home, your story and who you're at war with; the whole game is built around that split. It is a sequel to the studio's earlier winged world.
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Albion Online is a sandbox, meaning the players make most of what happens: nearly every item is crafted by somebody, and the markets are stocked by whoever bothered to mine, chop and sew. There are no classes. You are what you wear, and swapping gear swaps your role. Out past the safe zones, fights with other players are full loot: lose, and the winner keeps everything you carried. Guilds claim land and defend it.
2 articles · 4 rows tracked
Black Desert is a lavish open world where the combat plays like a fighting game: you aim, dodge and chain attacks by hand rather than clicking a target and waiting. You build your character in fine detail, then start as an adventurer with no memory and go wherever the map pulls you. Beyond the fighting there's a whole second life of trades, fishing, cooking, alchemy, crafting, riding horses and sailing, and guilds go to war with each other over land and pride.
1 article · 3 rows tracked
EVE Online is a science fiction game about spaceships, money and politics, played in one shared universe rather than on separate servers, so everyone who logs in is in the same galaxy at the same time. Almost everything that matters is made, sold and fought over by players: the ships, the markets, the territory. You'll join a corporation, this game's word for a guild, and most of the drama comes from what those groups do to each other.
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Final Fantasy XIV is an online role-playing game built around one long story. You play a hero in a realm called Eorzea and follow that story through its dungeons and boss fights, with friends or with computer-controlled allies if you'd rather go at your own pace. One character can learn every job, this game's word for a class, just by swapping weapons. Off duty there's fishing, crafting and a house to decorate.
4 articles · 6 rows tracked
Guild Wars 2 is a bright, wide fantasy world called Tyria where the map keeps happening around you. Instead of picking up quests from a board, you walk into events already under way, a village under attack or a caravan needing an escort, and everyone nearby just joins in. There's a personal story, dungeons, and a huge rolling battlefield where whole servers fight each other.
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Lost Ark is an action game seen from above, where you carve through packs of monsters with fast, flashy combat and the story pulls you from one continent to the next. Its world, Arkesia, is a scatter of continents and islands with open sea between them, and you sail it. Pick a class, then an advanced version of it that sets your fighting style. Later the game becomes timed boss hunts and big scripted raids that ask a group to learn a dance.
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New World: Aeternum is an action role-playing world set on a single haunted island, Aeternum, where settlers in colonial-era dress fight whatever the island keeps throwing at them. There are no classes: the weapon in your hands decides your skills, and you get better with it by using it. Gathering and crafting are a full path of their own, with skills to level, and you can play alone or in a group, on a computer or a console.
1 article · 2 rows tracked
Old School RuneScape is the older look of RuneScape, kept alive as its own game and still updated. It's a plain, cheerful fantasy world called Gielinor where you level up a long list of skills, from cooking and fishing to fighting, and work through quests. The unusual part: players vote on changes before they go in, and a change that fails the poll doesn't ship. It runs on a computer or a phone.
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RuneScape is the main line of Jagex's fantasy world, Gielinor, the version that kept moving forward after the old one was preserved separately. It's a game about skills as much as swords: you can spend an evening chopping trees, brewing potions or running a farm and count it as progress. There are quests with a long-running story, boss fights for groups, and it runs on a computer or a phone.
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RuneScape: Dragonwilds is a survival game set in RuneScape's world, and a separate thing from RuneScape itself. You land on a forgotten continent where dragons have woken up, and the loop is the survival one: chop, mine, build a shelter, cook, craft better gear, then push further out. The RuneScape flavour shows in the skills and the spells, like conjuring a ghostly axe to fell trees for you. You can play alone or with a few friends.
3 articles · 3 rows tracked
Star Citizen is a space game that is still being built, and you can already fly around inside it. It's a first-person universe: you walk through a station, climb into your ship, lift off, and cross a star system to trade, mine, haul cargo or fight, then land on a planet and keep walking. Big ships take a crew, so friends fill the turrets and the engine room. Expect an unfinished build that changes and resets as the studio works on it.
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The Elder Scrolls Online is the shared online version of the Elder Scrolls world, set across Tamriel, the continent the whole series takes place on. The pitch is freedom: pick a class, then go wherever you like and do the quests in any order, alone or with a group. There are zones where players fight each other, houses to furnish, and a long list of added chapters and side stories waiting once the starter areas run dry.
4 articles · 5 rows tracked
Throne and Liberty is a fantasy world built for crowds. Instead of a fixed class, you carry a combination of weapons and your abilities come from that pairing, so swapping one weapon changes who you are in a fight. The weather and the time of day change how battles go, and to get across the map you turn into an animal and run. The main event is big guild wars and sieges over castles, with whole guilds on screen at once.
2 articles · 2 rows tracked
World of Warcraft is a high-fantasy world called Azeroth, all myth, magic and monsters. You make a hero, pick a side in the long war between the Alliance and the Horde, and grow by questing, running dungeons with friends and joining raids, the big group boss fights. Blizzard also keeps older versions of the game running, each set in an earlier era of the world, so a newcomer can choose which one to start in.
6 articles · 6 rows tracked