aventurine

Greek outfit known chiefly for sandbox Darkfall.

Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs

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During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...

Massively Overthinking: The impact of jump start servers in MMOs

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With Chris' Choose My Adventure run on Lost Ark - specifically, on its jump-start servers - coming to a close, I thought it would...

Massively Overthinking: Do you strive to be ‘rich’ in MMORPGs?

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Last week, we did a Daily Grind about living our best lives in MMOs, doing things in video games we wish we could do...
This didn't work.

Darkfall: Rise of Agon updates community on the new and improved Steam version

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It's been a rather long road toward a Steam release for Darkfall: Rise of Agon, spanning from the original announcement of the reworked MMO...

Massively Overthinking: The best cooking in MMORPGs

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You probably thought tonight's Massively Overthinking would have a gratitude theme, what with the holiday and all. Nope, not this time, although it's sort...

Massively Overthinking: The real-world value of MMOs

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A while back on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a wildly contentious - one might even say transparently provocative - thread declaring that "f...
We have Thanos at home.

Massively Overthinking: What’s so bad about comfort zones in MMOs?

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If you've been following the MMORPG meta for a long time, particularly in World of Warcraft, you know there's corner of the industry convinced...

Massively Overthinking: Making money in MMOs – easy, hard, or in-between?

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A few days ago, I was hanging out in a certain MMORPG's Discord when an age-old class fight broke out - and I don't...
You deserve what you got.

Darkfall Rise of Agon explains upcoming changes to PvP alignments and stances

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Since Darkfall: Rise of Agon is effectively trying to hit the reset button with a new Steam version launch, reason would stand that some...
I mean, if you're choosing this one...

Darkfall: Rise of Agon preps Steam closed beta, ‘retires’ official forums

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Five years after Darkfall: Rise of Agon launched, the PvP MMORPG is getting ready to go into closed beta once more. This time, however,...

Massively Overthinking: The ideal MMO server setup

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Over the last year, we've seen multiple major MMO and expansion launches, and most of them went awry in some way or another. Final...

Massively Overthinking: Which MMO suffers from the most useless housing system?

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A few weeks ago, I was showing my seven-year-old around Villagers and Heroes, and she wanted to get herself a house. I warned her...
Oh, awesome, camping!

Darkfall: Rise of Agon plans to make a ‘big splash’ with a fresh start on Steam

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PvP sandbox Darkfall: Rise of Agon has big plans for the rest of the year -- and it wants to tell you all about...

Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?

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This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPGs of all time, 2021 edition

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Five years ago this week - back in 2016 - the MOP team and readers did an epic Massively Overthinking picking out their top...

Massively Overthinking: What’s the most painful or memorable bug you ever experienced in an MMO?

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Witnessing all the folks upset over losing gear and trades to rollbacks over and over in Diablo II Resurrected made me reflect on some...

Massively Overthinking: Would you play your favorite MMO without its IP?

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Nonameplease recently posed us an interesting topic, inspired by a thread on the Star Trek Online subreddit. "It seems most people don't think the...

Massively Overthinking: The worst chat in the MMORPG genre

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The first rule of MMORPGs is turn off global chat. Think about that for a sec. This is a genre that is expressly multiplayer...
Well, maybe this part.

Massively Overthinking: Is ‘layering’ tech actually MMO community poison?

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MOP reader ACuriousTanuki left a brilliant comment on a Palia article earlier this month that I thought deserved more discussion. Tanuki wondered about how...
tfw you're in love with lovely johnny

Massively Overthinking: Do you associate music with memory in MMOs?

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The other night, I tried to log in to the Star Wars Galaxies emu and the music hit me hard. See, I play SWG...

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