Vague Patch Notes: The challenge of the average MMO player
Pick an MMO, any MMO you know pretty well. Pick an MMO where you have a good sense of how much content there is...
World of Warcraft’s BlizzConline press kit leaks confirm patch 9.1 and Burning Crusade Classic
Well, that'd be a whoops from Blizzard: It turns out that World of Warcraft's press kits for the reveals at BlizzConline 2021 have been...
Naoki Yoshida sees at least another five years of vitality in Final Fantasy XIV
The fourth major expansion for Final Fantasy XIV, Endwalker, is just around the corner (to the extent you can consider "planned for fall" to be just...
Rumor: Blizzard may be testing Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal soon
By tomorrow evening's BlizzConline keynote address, we'll have a lot better idea what Blizzard has in store for its various properties. Until then, we're...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most egregious grifting you’ve seen in the MMO sphere?
There was a time when World of Warcraft charging $25 for a sparkly pony was considered absurd fleecing of its playerbase. Times have certainly...
The Stream Team: Zeroing in on The Shroud in SWTOR
New content may have seduced Massively OP's Larry and MJ away from the search for The Shroud in SWTOR for a time, but don't...
Old School RuneScape’s eighth anniversary has monkeys, RuneScape has double XP this weekend
You know the saying "more fun that a barrel full of monkeys"? Well that seems to be taken rather literally by Old School RuneScape,...
Phantasy Star Online 2 has launched on the Epic Games Store today with a new limited-time quest
The state of Phantasy Star Online 2 is very different now from when it launched in North America last year, because you can now launch...
TERA’s first console battle pass arrives with its latest patch
The latest patch for TERA on consoles is not just about the game's new battle pass, but that is definitely the central feature on display....
The Office stars talk about the making of the Second Life episode
Fans of NBC's The Office probably remember the 2007 episode "Local Ad" where the Dunder Mifflin team made a commercial for the Scranton branch....
Black Desert is deleting accounts not transferred to Pearl Abyss by May 31
If you haven't transferred your Black Desert account from Kakao to Pearl Abyss - perhaps because of the chaos last week - then you...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia’s bungle, Axie Infinity’s $1.5M in-game property
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Stadia: The Google mess just gets thicker, as apparently, developers on Stadia's internal...
Fractured Veil is a new open-world survival MMO – and it’s hunting for stress-testers
Here's a new game on our radar thanks to a post the developer dropped on Reddit: It's called Fractured Veil, and it's flagged as...
Why I Play: Final Fantasy XIV’s memorable Shadowbringer relic weapon grind
I have a love-hate relationship with Final Fantasy XIV. I actively fought against giving the game MMO of the year for 2020, and I hold the...
World of Warcraft updates the requirements for mentor status on the 9.0.5 test server
If you want to be a guide to new players in World of Warcraft, it behooves you to first know what you're doing. The game's...
Whatever happened to Legends of Aria?
The last time Legends of Aria studio Citadel made a formal announcement, it was two months ago, and it was an apology, as the...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs to get you out of your gaming rut
We have all been there. You've been gaming in your standard comfort MMOs when one day you hit that wall of burnout. You feel...
Final Fantasy XIV opens up another free login campaign through March 31
Resistance weaponry, Valentione's day, Skysteel tools, Blue Mage updates... there's a lot going on in Final Fantasy XIV at the moment, and even if you're...
Texas snowstorm delays Blade and Soul’s next update
A lot of the staff here at Massively OP were chatting and complaining about the massive snowstorm that dumped a whole lot of snow...
The Daily Grind: What non-combat, non-crafting system do you enjoy in MMOs?
There's always a lot of stuff to do in MMOs, but most all of it involves punching, slicing, or blasting into oblivion. That's not...
