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Massively Overthinking: Open world difficulty and puzzles in MMOs

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During last week's press event ahead of the Gold Road announcement, Elder Scrolls Online's Rich Lambert said something I thought would turn out to...

Nightingale is less than a month away – here’s a six-minute preview of its features

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This is your formal heads-up that one of the most anticipated online games of 2024 is less than a month away. After years of...

Project Gorgon’s Eric Heimberg talks influences, design, and the future of the MMO

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The beginning of January saw YouTuber MarleMMO host an interview with Project Gorgon's Sandra Powers, when she talked about her experience with design, her...
Not so basic now, are you!

Baldur’s Gate 3 boss pushes back against the industry’s renewed ambition over games subscription models

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This week offered another example of executive foot-in-mouth disorder when Ubisoft director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay suggested in an interview that games subscription business...
Now you can play with your straight friends!

Final Fantasy XIV jumps the gun on Xbox open beta announcement

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One of the biggest developments for Final Fantasy XIV in 2024 that isn't named "Dawntrail" has to be the MMO's debut on Microsoft's game...

Ubisoft talks up its subscription services and making gamers ‘comfortable’ with not owning titles

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Allow us a moment to lean back in our rocking chair, coddle a cup of sarsaparilla, and look up at the sky as we...
Something fell.

The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0

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Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...

Hi-Rez just officially announced SMITE 2, soft-launching into beta this year – but SMITE will stay online

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Have you ever wanted to play SMITE but with better graphics, improved matchmaking, and more modes and special events? Well, soon you can! Except...

City of Heroes Homecoming talks funding, the City Council, and the impending content drop

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Following yesterday's surprise announcement that NCsoft has granted City of Heroes rogue server group Homecoming a license to operate the game - something it's...

Project Gorgon’s Sandra Powers on the MMORPG’s features, its fiscal future, and the broader genre

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The story of 2023 for Project: Gorgon was a remarkable one to say the least, as it faced possible maintenance mode and serious illness...

Path of Exile 2 talks movement, microtransactions, builds, and more in new interview

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The Path of Exile 2 playerbase got themselves a little treat earlier this week when game director Johnathan Rogers sat down for an interview...

Guild Wars 2’s ArenaNet is working on expansions for both 2024 and 2025 already

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Guild Wars 2 is ending 2023 with a traditional dev blog recapping the year and looking ahead to what will be the game's fifth...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MOP articles of 2023

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Every year, we pick out a bunch of narrative arcs and stories that dominated the headlines and emotions of the MMORPG genre, and it...

LOTRO’s executive producer hints at 2024 plans with more Umbar zones and new legendary servers

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Lord of the Rings Online players won't have to wait until early 2024's producer's letter to find out all of the details of what's...

Lord of the Rings Online apparently once considered non-combat classes

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With Christmas and New Years looming in the near future, Standing Stone Games is getting ready to send its devs on a well-deserved holiday...

Tribes 3 Rivals promises a business model that has learned from past monetization mistakes

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Near as we can figure, there are two types of players learning that the venerable Tribes FPS franchise is coming back in the form...

‘Shit happens,’ The Day Before devs tell disgruntled players as mass-refunds continue

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We're into day six of The Day Before drama, which certainly doesn't embroil any of you, as our readers were too clever to buy...

Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions

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We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...

Blade & Soul shares early gameplay videos and communication plans for Neo Classic servers

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We're still not entirely sure just what Blade & Soul is doing with its upcoming Neo Classic servers, but it looks as if NCsoft...

BitCraft studio co-founder discusses building a societal game and what the MMO’s endgame looks like

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If you have about 30 minutes and are curious to learn more about BitCraft and societal games from Clockwork Labs co-founder Tyler Cloutier, then...

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