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Meta: Patreon has rolled back plans to change fee structure

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Hello MOP readerbase! As you are likely aware, Massively OP's funding is a hybrid, coming both from advertising and from reader donations, most of...

Massively OP’s Best of 2017 Awards: Most Improved MMO of 2017

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2017 awards continue today with our award for Most Improved MMO, which was awarded to The Elder Scrolls Online last year. All live...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 148: Vampires, kobolds, and pirates

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Justin and Bree discuss MOP's December awards, DDO, Secret World Legends, Path of Exile, Hearthstone, Sea of Thieves, RIFT, and Blade and Soul, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs and love for Champs Online.

Massively OP’s Best of 2017 Awards: Biggest MMO Story of 2017

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2017 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Story, which was awarded to the death of EverQuest Next last year. This isn't...

Massively OP’s Best of 2017 Awards: Most Underrated MMO of 2017

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Welcome one and all to Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2017 awards series. Every year, we poll our writers about the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios,...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite way to make money in an MMORPG?

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Writing about Star Wars Galaxies' emulator last week awoke in me a dormant desire to get back in there and make some pretend money....

Don’t miss Massively OP’s 2017 MMO awards!

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We rolled out all our awards throughout December beginning on the 11th and running to the 29th, when we announced our MMO of the...
Our Hero

WRUP: Great personalities of the American something-or-other no. 341 edition

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William "Basketball" Cragen was born in 1784 following his mother's prolonged and particularly unusual bout with pneumonia, which produced three children and at least...

Ask Mo: Counting the hits and misses of our 2017 predictions

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As we do every year, today we’re going to peer back into the depths of last year's staff predictions for the genre and the games...

Leaderboard: How should MMORPG studios communicate to players?

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The most peculiar comment thread erupted in MJ's recent post about Secret World Legends' Krampusnacht. In response to the casual note that the holiday...
Damn you!

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2017

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Think of all the wacky things devs have said in public in front of gamers and journalists this year. Now imagine what gets said behind...
Oh look.

Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017

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As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...
Just fight the thing.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 147: Daybreak but not that one

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Justin and Bree discuss Secret World Legends, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Star Citizen, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, and the cost of making games, with a lengthy mailbag-inspired discussion on minimaps.
Recognized.

WRUP: Your honor, I motion for lizards edition

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Mr. Lefebvre: Your honor, the defense motions for lizards. The Court: Counsel, could you repeat? Mr. Lefebvre: Your honor, the defense motions for lizards. Your honor,...

Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs

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Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...

The Daily Grind: Did Marvel Heroes just get the worst-managed MMORPG sunset of all time?

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If you happened to catch the Massively OP Podcast this week, you heard my positively livid rant about the whole Marvel Heroes situation. Now,...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 146: World of Warcraft’s fun police

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Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes' death, Darkfall New Dawn, LOTRO 2018, Neverwinter Nights, WoW's fun police, DDO, Hearthstone, and Trove, with mailbag discussions on Disney the lockbox villain and the max we'd pay for MMO subscriptions.

The Daily Grind: Did EA do gamers a big favor with its monetization overreach?

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Over the last couple of weeks as players fought EA and Disney turned on its own in the Star Wars Battlefront II mess, I've...

The Daily Grind: Did you take advantage of any Black Friday sales in MMOs this weekend?

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I did a ton of shopping - all online, mind you, as I'm not so far gone as to actually put on pants or...
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WRUP: I’m cold and this place smells like farts edition

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Ugh. Why are we here? This is dumb. I'm cold and this place smells like farts. When can we leave? Why did we have...

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