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The Stream Team: Jumping blind into Path of Exile 2
What is this hype all about? Larry has no idea, so MJ invited Larry to try out Path of Exile 2. Larry agreed with one caveat: He wants to jump into the game totally blind. Literally, the only thing that he knows about the game is that people like it, and it is the sequel to Path of Exile,...
Co-op survivalbox Towers of Aghasba spent November and December improving and fixing itself
Do you remember Towers of Aghasba? It's an intriguing-looking survival sandbox that we first covered in early November that focuses on co-op play and restoring a devastated tribal world. The game made its early access launch later that same month but was immediately flagged as extremely incomplete by Steam players.
Now that there's roughly a month under developer Dreamlit Inc's...
MMO Year in Review: The rise of the Amazon MMORPG (October 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
October was far and away the biggest month for MMORPG of the year, thanks both to the formal launch of Throne & Liberty and New World's Aeternum reboot.
Meanwhile, Diablo IV rolled out Vessel of Hatred, World of Warcraft began its 20th...
ASKA celebrates Yule with festive trees, pushes back some updates, and promises a roadmap
It's been a minute since we've peeked in on the Viking-themed colony survival title ASKA, but that's primarily because the game has just recently put out a jolly little December update that lets players experience the holiday season in-game and some quality updates to make things generally nicer. Ideally, anyway.
The Yule season is letting players build a festive tree,...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2024: Touching grass with MMO seeds
Today we're kicking off our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year, that year being 2024!
Coming in at #5 on our list is…
Guild Wars 2 tells everyone to touch grass... literally
Back in April, Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet partnered with a UK gardening outlet to promote Guild Wars 2-themed plant seeds - a blooming passiflora (aka...
The Stream Team: A new year means trying a new game with a friend in Marvel Rivals
It's 2025 and MOP's Chris is facing the all-new year with a new-to-him game: Marvel Rivals! While his twitch reaction shooter years are well behind him, perhaps there's fun to be had without any of the competitive pressure? And besides, he's bringing a friend along for the ride as well! Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EST as he...
Van camping sim Outbound aims to deliver an alpha in the first half of 2025
Maybe it's completely silly to be this excited over what amounts to a mobile life sim in which you live in a van down by the river (and probably eat cheese), but Outbound genuinely has some of us here at Massively OP quite excited. Ever since fully funding its Kickstarter campaign back in September, we've been waiting to hear...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2024
In just another month or two, we're coming up on MOP's independence day, marking 10 years since we went indie, and nowhere is that more numerically obvious than in our ongoing count of Daily Grinds - our morning "icebreaker" question about MMORPGs, posed to warm up our readers for the MMO day ahead.
Fun fact: The very first Daily Grind...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Indie MMO of the Year
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Indie MMO of the Year, which was awarded to Project Gorgon last year. All indie MMOs, crowdfunded or not, are eligible for this award; the game needn’t actually have formally launched yet, though it does need to be in some form of persistently playable state (like early access)....
Myth of Empires’ upcoming Persia DLC will let players stomp around in a woodcutting mech
Technology can make a lot of hard labor much easier, but at the same time most of that adheres to the rule of form following function from a design standpoint. Not so with Myth of Empires' upcoming Persia DLC, which will introduce a highly impractical but still dope woodcutting mech suit. Yes indeed, it's real.
This piece of machinery is...
The Daily Grind: How often (if ever) do you rebuild your MMO house?
If an MMORPG has a robust housing system, that probably means that you could take a long, long time in setting up the most ideal and perfectly structured home possible. There's a real sense of accomplishment in making a really cool or personalized housing space -- but that doesn't mean that you're going to leave it there forever, does...
Happy New Year to all the uplifting things in MMOs, 2024 edition
So last night, as is tradition, we posted our list of all the reasons we can't have nice things in MMOs and torched them with a flamethrower. OK, the flamethrower is new, but the sentiment remains: None of that stuff was fun to read, but we needed to record it for history, and now we're pressing on - and...
Goodbye to all the reasons we can’t have nice things in MMOs, 2024 edition
Listen, I'm not going to pretend 2024 was great. It wasn't great in the real world, and it wasn't great in the games industry - especially the MMORPG industry. Thousands of our game developers were laid off. MMORPGs were canceled or - sometimes worse - left to rot in silence. Greed. Lockboxes. Bad court precedents. Even rollbacks. No thank...
The Stream Team: Mounting up in AdventureQuest 3D to leave the old year in the dust
Some years you just want to leave in the dust yelling, "Hasta la vista, baby!" It doesn't even have to be a bad year; it's just fun to ride into the sunset as the year sunsets. Thanks to the new spiffy mount gift in AQ3D, Massively OP's MJ can to do that! She hopes to catch a live event...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 499: The holiday mailbag explosion
Justin and Bree deliver the traditional MMO mailbag show, answering your questions about early access, mediocre MMOs, crafting, returning to games, screenshots, fresh start servers, inventory, and more.
MMO Year in Review: ArcheAge Chronicles (September 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
Following multiple delays, ArcheAge 2 morphed into ArcheAge Chronicles this month as XLGAMES tried to downgrade its upcoming MMORPG without losing its fanbase.
Meanwhile, we peeped the Throne & Liberty headstart, Black Desert launched its Land of the Morning Light Seoul expansion,...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Golden Yachties: Best MMO meme
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards conclude today with our award for the Best MMO meme. The Golden Yachties series is our run of fauxwards, named in honor of somebody we've long forgotten from Old Massively who insisted that surely we make so much money that we're typing MMO blog posts from a gold-plated yacht. (Joke's on you; it was always...
Choose My Adventure: All of the MMOs you made us play in 2024
This past year was full of ups and downs. You could arguably say that about any year, sure, but I felt it much more acutely this year on both a personal level and for our weekly Choose My Adventure column; the highs were great and the lows were pretty down and dirty.
As is tradition here at MOP, I'm taking...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Biggest MMO Surprise
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Surprise, which was awarded to SWTOR's move to Broadsword last year. This category is meant to offer something quite different from big stories, disappointments, and blunder; it’s meant to be something nobody saw coming at all, usually something positive, though not always. Don’t forget to cast...
Extraction RPG Seekers of Skyveil’s 2025 roadmap promises early access in March
PvPvE extraction RPG Seekers of Skyveil is gearing up for an action-packed start to 2025 -- and studio Elodie is happy to tell you all about it. The studio posted an early 2025 roadmap covering the game's beta development and testing schedule.
All of the fun starts on January 10th with a 10-day extended playtest (and a new trailer). Then...
