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Giveaway: Grab a Jing Wei unlock key from SMITE and MOP (Restocked!)

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SMITE's Escape from The Underworld update just went live this morning, bringing with it new skins for multiple gods, a new underworld arena, and new underworld quests. And...
We were the kings and queens of promise.

The Daily Grind: Does your guild or family govern which MMORPGs you play?

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A few podcasts ago, I lamented that my time in Black Desert would probably be brief, at least for now, because my guildies weren't...

Who wants a closed beta key for The Skies from EFORB and MOP? [All gone!]

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Wanna take part in this week's closed beta test for the Steam early access version of upcoming MMORPG The Skies? EFORB has granted MOP 2000 keys...

The Daily Grind: How do you feel about being ‘run’ through MMORPG content?

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The news that Guild Wars 2 is nerfing player-led "runs" through Super Adventure Box made me sit back and ponder the whole concept. Power-leveling lowbies...

MMO Week in Review: Farewell, Nostalrius (April 10, 2016)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! This...

Leaderboard: Did you sub to EVE Online for World War Bee?

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MOP's Brendan's terrific ongoing coverage of World War Bee -- the great war that wages on inside perennially combative MMORPG sandbox EVE Online --...
It ends as it began, in love with Beast Wars.

WRUP: Never been to BotCon edition

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Transformer fans have been informed that this year's BotCon will be the final BotCon in in this particular form. What that means for the...

Grab an Erectus the Game key from Maata Games and MOP

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Maata Games opened the closed beta gates for its "strategy focused empire builder MMO" called Erectus the Game yesterday. Get your giggles over with...

Grab a Survarium bundle key from Vostok and MOP

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Survarium's huge 0.41 patch landed on the live version of the game this week, touting a new daily nomination system, new tactical supplies, changes to...

The Daily Grind: Would you play on a vanilla World of Warcraft server?

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Word that wildly popular "progressive vanilla" World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius is sunsetting in the face of a Blizzard legal threat has dominated MMORPG...

Massively Overthinking: Grouping, kill-stealing, and open PvP in MMORPGs

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This week's Massively Overthinking topic arrived in our inboxes from longtime reader Leiloni. It's a timely one all about newly launched Tree of Savior -- and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 59: This great stage of fools

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 SAB and legendary weapons, WoW, EVE's World War Bee, FFXI, TSW's new issue, and WildStar's Arcterra, with mailbag questions on similar MMO experiences and customer support.

The Daily Grind: What’s the ‘deadest’ live MMORPG out there?

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If you were all prepared to troll with a sunsetted game or say "anything by Daybreak or Trion or whatever studio that's popular to hate...
Cool times.

The Daily Grind: What is the single worst element of MMORPG endgame?

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I have ranted at length about how much I dislike the concept of MMORPG endgame. I don't like how it shapes eternal online games...
Practice makes something!

Week in Review: EVE’s World War Bee (April 3, 2016)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! This...

Leaderboard: Which half of H1Z1 are you playing?

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One of the pranks we considered pulling for April Fools' Day was a split of Massively OP into two halves: Massively, the survival game,...
This is not a swimsuit.

WRUP: The story of Frank and his beard edition

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Frank was born in the middle of April at 5:27 p.m., widely agreed by experts to be the stupidest part of the year. Despite...
Hello, I'm very shiny.

The Daily Grind: In which we tell you the jokes you’re expecting to find through the day

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The day of the fool Has arrived once again here; Eyes are upon us. What jokes might writers In the MOP newsroom Play upon you now? In years past, our...

The Daily Grind: Is instancing in MMORPGs our real enemy?

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The first MMORPGs I ever played hadn't come up with instancing yet. They had perceptible server lines and time-sucking zone walls, but everyone was...

The Daily Grind: What do you think are Revival’s chances of… revival?

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Last week's news that Revival's development has been indefinitely suspended was a pretty big downer for MMO players already bummed over EverQuest Next's cancellation....

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