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The Daily Grind: Has a soundtrack ever inspired you to try out an MMORPG?

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Massively OP reader Andrea has a fun question for us today. "I've been perusing through different MMO soundtracks these past days and some of...

Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok

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Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...

Grab Fafnir’s Dread Lord skin for SMITE from Hi-Rez and Massively OP

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Have you given SMITE a go since it added a dungeon-crawling PvE mode earlier this week? If not, this giveaway might give you motivation....

Bless Online’s western version has been canceled over ‘quality standards’

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The Neowiz statement that Aeria Games is no longer serving as the western Bless Online has now been backed up by Gamigo, Aeria's parent company, though contrary to...

Neowiz confirms axing Bless Online western publisher Aeria Games

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Rumors that suggested Aeria Games has been dismissed as the western Bless Online publisher appear to have been confirmed today. Korean gaming site Inven is reporting...
IF YOU WANT TO BE AN ACROBAT GO PLAY THAT

Massively OP Podcast Episode 120: Steaming into summer

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Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, FFXIV, Elder Scrolls Online, SWTOR, Ashes of Creation, Neverwinter, Shroud of the Avatar, and Black Desert, with a mailbag question on "don't give a fudge" gaming.

The Daily Grind: Do you make a point of watching or skipping MMO cutscenes?

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During this week's podcast, Justin jokes about how Final Fantasy XIV literally has an interface pop-up to warn you before it deluges you with...

Rumor: Aeria Games no longer publishing Bless Online for western audiences

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Rumors are flying this morning that Aeria Games has been dismissed as the western Bless Online publisher. MMORPG.com reports that it received "fairly substantial...

The Daily Grind: Who’s the best villain ever in an MMORPG?

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The past few weeks while I've been sick, I've been doing a rewatch of a couple of old favorite shows and fell into a TV...
Shocking!

MMO Week in Review: Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood’s everything (June 4, 2017)

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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...
And again.

WRUP: Answering the greatest science mysteries edition

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Man, science is so simple. All we really have to do is stop entrusting all of it to the scientists, right? We can just,...
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Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist

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This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG studio is the most generous to players?

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Longtime MOP community contributor deekay posed us an interesting question in the context of Marvel Heroes this week: Is it a good thing when developers...
You have to want it.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 119: Finalest Fantasy

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Justin and Eliot discuss FFXIV, FFXI, Black Desert, Neverwinter, World of Warcraft, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, EverQuest, Allods, and RIFT, with mailbag questions on MMO role homogenization, PvP pay-to-win, and the Marvel Heroes uproar.

Leaderboard: What’s the most important part of MMORPG character customization?

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Valiance Online has a dev thread up this week asking backers and devs to propose hairstyles for the game's characters, something that immediately yoinked...
There's something vaguely unsettling about buying and selling people here.

The Daily Grind: Which live MMORPG has the best crafting system?

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A discussion with my guildies this past holiday weekend illuminated a universal truth for us: We love Elder Scrolls Online but strongly dislike its...

MMO Week in Review: Morrowind, Black Desert, and a bajillion other MMO launches (May 28, 2017)

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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! Memorial...
Badging like you do.

WRUP: Reasons to order your badger through the mail edition

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Lately, we've gotten a lot of questions about our new mail-order badger system. "Why should I order a badger through the mail," you ask,...

Enter to win a Legends of Aria alpha trial key from Citadel and MOP

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Legends of Aria's alpha launched yesterday, setting loose the new and more MMORPG-like vision for the game formerly known as Shards Online. While normally...
All right. We have figured this out now.

The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs you think are just too late to start playing?

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I've been playing a lot of Ultima Online the past few weeks, but so many times I'll be doing something that is objectively tedious...

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