The most popular Massively OP MMO articles of 2017
One of my favorite things to do every year is drill down the top articles on the site for our readers. I don't mean...
Lizard Squad leader convicted for 2014 cyberattacks on H1Z1 and John Smedley
You do the cybercrime, you do real world time. Cast your mind back to 2014 and 2015, when a hacker group called Lizard Squad...
Betawatch: Holiday testing, ho ho ho (December 22, 2017)
It's holiday time, and that means everyone is leaving the offices early now. Except for those of us who work from home, because we...
Destiny 2’s playerbase is melting down over holiday lockboxes in Eververse
Destiny 2 just can't seem to stop pissing off everyone. Its Dawning holiday event, detractors argue, is overtly designed as a moneygrab focused around...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMO trend of 2017?
Earlier this week, we posted our award celebrating what we thought was the best MMO-related trend of the year: a renewed focus on building...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2018
With 2017 drawing to a close and 2018 rushing up to meet us, the Massively OP team has regrouped for another round of bold...
Pearl Abyss to western Black Desert players: ‘We want BDO to last for another 20-30 years’
Pearl Abyss Executive Producer Jaehee Kim has a message for western Black Desert players today. It's not gonna look all that different to what...
Dungeons and Dragons Online adds a new raid while Hollywood preps yet another D&D flick
The terror of Dungeons and Dragons Online: Mists of Ravenloft are only increasing thanks to this week's Update 37.1.
Standing Stone Games activated an additional...
Apple now demands lootbox odds disclosures from Appstore games
No matter what type of mobile device you run as your daily driver, you're probably going to be surprised to hear that Apple is...
Dark Age of Camelot is developing a free-to-play option for 2018
While many MMO studios wait until January to release their year preview letters (and the lazy ones put it off until Ash Wednesday), Dark...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has officially launched today; are you playing?
Conventional wisdom says you probably shouldn't launch a blockbuster video game four days before Christmas, but then conventional wisdom never met PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which...
Star Citizen has put out yet another expensive concept ship, and it’s a tank – literally
File this one under "bad press is still press right guys" or possibly "are you even kidding me right now": Star Citizen announced today...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 149: Bringing back the MMO magic
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, WoW, MMO holiday events, ArcheAge, the site awards, EverQuest, Pantheon, Ashes of Creation, RIFT, the Star Citizen lawsuit, and Funcom, with mailbag topics on horror MMOs and "iterating the magic away."
Rumor: Blizzard’s next title involves vehicles and may be an Overwatch spinoff
There's a title under development at Blizzard that's been hiring for a while now, but no one actually knows what it is. So when...
Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2017?
Every year for the last many years, we've done some sort of award for the most underrated MMO, or even the year's sleeper hit....
Funcom gets $10.6M investment, signs deal to handle Conan and other RPG properties
Funcom's not quite done with Conan just yet, not by a long shot.
The Conan Exiles studio announced today that it has signed a deal...
Extra Credits on how to win, lose, and measure gamer trust
How does a "great series get driven into the ground," eroding player trust? That's precisely the subject tackled in a recent edition of the...
Make My MMO: The Star Citizen lawsuit and Camelot’s weed (December 16, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, eyebrows across the 'verse rose as Crytek filed a lawsuit alleging that the studios behind Star Citizen and Squadron...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation testing is set for today (December 15, 2017)
Who wants to play a guessing game? If you're an Ashes of Creation backer, you get to play one whether you answered yes or...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG articles of 2017
For this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We've tried to isolate our favorite personal...
