Curated playlist
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games
- Lineage WLineage W was called "the final Lineage" before anyone had played it. Estimates put it at an NCSoft first-day record.
- Grand Theft Auto OnlineGrand Theft Auto Online went live on the 1st of October 2013 and asked its players to start as nobodies in the state of San Andreas. The state is fictional and based on Southern California. Up to 30 players can share its open world at the…
- World of WarcraftVice summed up World of Warcraft in 2019 with a single sentence. "Most people," it wrote, "know someone who's said they were 'addicted' to World of Warcraft." The game came from Blizzard Entertainment, which released it for Windows and…
- Final Fantasy XIIn 2025, so many new players joined Final Fantasy XI that the server Asura closed to new characters.
- Final Fantasy XIVSquare Enix rebuilt Final Fantasy XIV from scratch while the failed original kept running.
- Final Fantasy XIV (2010 video game)One flowerpot in Final Fantasy XIV used as much detail as a whole player character.
- EverQuestSony expected little from EverQuest, but it drew ten thousand subscribers in a day.
- Massively multiplayer online role-playing gameA glitch in World of Warcraft in 2005 caught the eye of disease researchers.
- Megami TenseiMegami Tensei reached Japanese players on the 11th of September 1987, when Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei launched on the Famicom. The game grew out of a science-fiction novel series by Aya Nishitani, and the franchise took its name…
- Star Wars GalaxiesIn Star Wars Galaxies, players had to make the blasters before anyone could fire one. Cities elected mayors.
- Star Wars: The Old RepublicStar Wars: The Old Republic set a Guinness record for the largest voice-over project in entertainment.
- Diablo ImmortalDiablo Immortal had the biggest Diablo launch ever, yet its PC version got Metacritic's lowest user score.