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Enter to win a SMITE 2016 Season Ticket from Hi-Rez and MOP (Ended – Winners drawn!)

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SMITE has big plans for its birthday week and PS4 open beta, including game-wide promos every single day through Monday. Massively OP is joining in...

Giveaway: Grab a Bellona unlock key from SMITE and MOP [All gone!]

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Last week, Hi-Rez MOBA SMITE patched in Skadi, the goddess of winter, and kicked off the 2016 SMITE Pro League Season Ticket. Oh yeah, and...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best cosmetics system?

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Cosmetics, costumes, transmogrification, appearance tab -- whatever you want to call them, cosmetic systems are a big deal in MMORPGs in 2016. While you...

The Daily Grind: What’s the age range of the people in the MMORPGs you play?

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This morning's Daily Grind arrives from Massively OP reader camelotcrusade, who asks you to take a long look at the ages of the people around...

MMO Week in Review: Tree of Savior’s new launch plan (March 20, 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! Tree...
There are no bees!

WRUP: Camp in a lake of fire edition

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Go camp in a lake of fire. Go find a lake of fire and camp there. Not on the shore, on the lake itself....

Enter to win a Neverwinter PC howler mount from PWE and Massively OP

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Just in time for this week's Neverwinter: The Maze Engine release on PC, PWE has granted Massively OP 40 mount codes to give away to our readers! The codes...

The Daily Grind: Would you play an Indiana Jones MMORPG?

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Disney confirmed yesterday that the Indiana Jones franchise is getting a new entry. Starring Harrison Ford and directed by Steven Spielberg, Indy 5 is...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 55: Black Friday fallout

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Justin and Bree take on EverQuest Next's cancellation, WildStar's layoffs, the future of the EverQuest franchise, and the state of the genre.

The Daily Grind: What temporary MMO content do you wish would return?

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Massively OP reader Guhracie emailed us a few weeks ago, upset about Guild Wars 2's popular Super Adventure Box. SAB was technically temporary content...

MMO Week in Review: Sadface (March 13, 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! I...
I'll just leave, if I want.

WRUP: A brief and entirely incorrect history of CCGs edition

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The first CCG (which originally stood for "Concerted Card Gouging" but was later changed to "Collectible Card Game" after the Great Acronym Wars of...
Mead mead mead mead mead mead.

The Daily Grind: Does EverQuest Next’s cancellation change your MMO outlook?

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By now you've surely read the news that Daybreak has canceled EverQuest Next. To many of you, it was likely not a surprise, but...

The Daily Grind: How strictly do you hold MMO devs to their ‘promises’?

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On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I tried to tackle a question from MOP reader Serrenity, who wanted us to talk about...
Plus one.

Massively Overthinking: The state of WildStar

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This week's Massively Overthinking focuses entirely on WildStar, out of whose devs we've been trying to get answers -- never mind reassurance about the game --...

Giveaway: Trinium Wars Steam keys and cash-shop currency [Second wave gone now!]

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Trinium Wars, confirmed by the devs as being a modernized and further developed version of L.A.W, debuted on Steam last week in early access. How...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 54: Something fishy is afoot

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Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert, Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, No Man's Sky, World of Fishing, and AdventureQuest 3D, with a mailbag question on broken dev promises.
EverQuest

The Daily Grind: Where are all the MMORPG themeparks?

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A reader named Rogbarz emailed us toward the end of last year, lamenting the fact that we have a lot of upcoming indie games...
DCUO

The Daily Grind: What do F2P players offer a F2P MMORPG?

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Almost a year ago, we debated the generally accepted wisdom that free-to-play players provide some sort of value to a game. Either they're seat-fillers,...

Massively OP’s guide to MMORPG death penalties

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In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...

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