Justin Olivetti

Justin Olivetti
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A casual gamer and long-time MMO fan, Justin is often heard yelling, "Player housing for all!" in the Massively Overpowered offices. In addition to news, he tackles LOTRO Legendarium for LOTRO, The Perfect Ten, Jukebox Heroes, the retrospective Game Archaeologist series, One Shots, and the Massively OP podcast.

Personal blog: BioBreak
Twitter: @sypster

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community rocked by death threat controversy

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Here is a lesson that we should all take to heart: Smack talk is one thing, actual death threats are entirely another. The Counter-Strike: Global...
No, be a dude.

League of Legends dev who insulted streamer is no longer with Riot Games

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Two days ago, we reported that a League of Legends developer had landed himself in hot water after he went grossly overboard in insulting...

The Daily Grind: Do dinosaurs help or hurt your immersion in MMOs?

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My kids, being of a younger age, tend to find dinosaurs pretty darn awesome. They went bananas the other day when they saw a...

Global Chat: The MMO community’s Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire impressions

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It is kind of impossible to stroll around the MMO blogging community as of late and not trip and fall into a pool of...
Cha

Crowfall goes over the history and perks of Humans and Elves

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Even Crowfall, as progressive as it is with its racial choices, must bow to the ironclad law of MMOs that state, "Every fantasy game...

Wild Buster runs limited alpha test while continuing to raise funds

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We've been covering Wild Buster with a mixture of interest and amusement, as this patchwork MMO is a little too weird and inexplicable to...
Everyone comes to our house.

Catch up with Legends of Aria’s final alpha with a town hall Q&A and a fresh start guide

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The word "final" certainly attracts the attention, which is perhaps why there's this excited buzz around Legends of Aria's final alpha. The test kicked...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 138: Mystery MMOs and the mobile revolution

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, the mobile MMO avalanche, in-development MMOs from AAA studios, Black Desert's Kamasylvia, and Camelot Unchained, with mailbag questions on the MMO industry going backwards and the small touches in MMOs.

Multiplayer backstab simulator Throne of Lies launches

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Don't have enough paranoia and doubt in your life? Here comes along Throne of Lies to help you with that. Somewhat based on the popular...

Dark Age of Camelot welcomes players back with a free month for its birthday

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Happy birthday Dark Age of Camelot! This month, Mythic's (now Broadsword's) classic realm-vs.-realm MMORPG celebrates its 16th birthday following its 2001 launch. The team raised...

This is how MMO lockboxes manipulate your mind

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It is not going to shock you to hear that lockboxes are kind of evil. We here at Massively OP have been beating on...

RIFT provides a free upgrade for housing dimensions

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Unexpected bonuses are always a delight, true? RIFT players are in for a treat later this week, as Trion Worlds is improving its housing...

Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan on how toxic gamers try to intimidate Blizzard devs

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As the discussion and response to Overwatch's legendary toxicity problem continues, even the development team isn't spared from the impact of this, ahem, "passionate"...

Ship of Heroes puts out an alert for the Yekus Mercenary Clan

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Even though we are quite a ways out from playing Ship of Heroes for real, it is not too early to start becoming familiar...

The MOP Up: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hits record concurrency (October 1, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Get an advance look at a few of Age of Wushu 2’s locations

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While we continue the long, long wait for Age of Wushu 2 to make its way over to the western world, at least we...

Global Chat: What’s going on with Daybreak?

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Do you ever give MMOs a questioning stare and find yourself asking to no one in particular, "What is up with Daybreak these days,...

One Shots: Starlight, starbright

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As someone very much on the outside of this whole Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire thing, my observations is that this is some...

Crowfall’s Raph Koster explains why MMO systems stagnate and die

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The man who pretty much wrote the book on many MMORPG systems shared another piece of keen insight about a pitfall in many competitive...

The walking dead stagger into RuneScape for a new battle royale-style survival mode

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Staggering and shuffling their way into players' worst nightmares, zombies have infested the normally cheery arena of RuneScape and need a little pruning. That's...

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