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The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v4.0
By far, my favorite column to write here at Massively OP (and the one that always takes the longest) is The Game Archaeologist. I've...
Guild Wars 2 on server performance: ‘We’re seeing more success’
If your Guild Wars 2 experience has seemed smoother and less fraught with performance issues as of late, that's not your optimistic mind deluding...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Most Improved MMO
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Most Improved MMO, which was awarded to Black Desert last year. All live...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Event of 2020
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Event of 2020, which was awarded last year to AdventureQuest 3D...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2020 predictions
Last December, when we sat down to write out our annual MMO predictions for 2020, I don't think anyone had "biggest global pandemic in...
MMO Business Roundup: Twitch’s anti-hate policies, Cyberpunk’s concurrency, and the CASE Act
Welcome back to our irregular roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Twitch: This week, Twitch introduced yet another round of policy changes in regard...
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs going into 2021
It is only natural that, when you are shopping around for a different MMORPG to play, to consider the health of potential play candidates....
The Stream Team: The Departing in Guild Wars 2
After finding the lost city, Massively OP's MJ is moving on in Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire. Next up is Chapter 9: The...
Guild Wars 2 plans Wintersday for next week as the community debates hacking and toxicity
As expected, Guild Wars 2 is capping off 2020 with its holiday events in the form of the official release of Wintersday next week,...
Flameseeker Chronicles: An honest second look at Guild Wars 2’s dragon response missions
As longtime readers surely know, Flameseeker Chronicles is an opinion column, one of many on Massively OP, though this one's about Guild Wars 2....
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best graphical appeal in 2020?
OK, graphics snobs, this unofficial annual award is for you. Now, I will play an old, clunky, beloved sandbox for a really long time. And...
Massively Overthinking: MMO cash shop confessions
Do you ever pick up a drink absentmindedly, thinking it's going to be something, but it's actually something totally different that you hate? You...
Desert Oasis: Black Desert Online should be 2020’s MMO of the year
Well here we are again, heading to the end of another year. And while many are eager for this year to end, us gamers...
Guild Wars 2 rolls out a PvP class balance patch
It's that old adage of MMOs that nobody wants developers to mess with their classes -- unless the devs totally buff those classes up...
Guild Wars 2 delays WvW world linking until Friday
One of the newer systems that Guild Wars 2 uses to maintain World vs. World population and rank balance is temporarily offline this week....
The Daily Grind: Do you actually like noob zones in MMORPGs?
I think there's a widespread grumpiness for MMORPG tutorials. Either they're so pointless and easy that you're bored, or they deluge you with too...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best method for delivering MMO quests?
I have long held that among the many (many) things World of Warcraft codified in the big book of MMORPG "rules" is the quest...
The Stream Team: The Way Forward in Guild Wars 2
The next step in Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire story is Chapter 8: The War Forward. But Massively OP's MJ will have to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 298: The one with the chocobo
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Shadowlands, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2 Truce, Final Fantasy XIV, and Wizard 101, with adventures in New World and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on WoW marketing and our defining MMORPGs.
NCsoft Q3 2020: Guild Wars 2 just had its best revenue quarter in two years
Let's get the best news for western players in this NCsoft financial report out first: Guild Wars 2 just saw a bit of a...
