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Ominous.

End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2020

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Whew. We're finally getting close to the end of 2020, and I think I speak for all of us when I say that it...
Not paying attention is not a mark of honor.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO blessings to be thankful for in 2020

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There is no doubt that this has been a much more difficult year than most in many respects, almost to the point where it's...
So many colors in the rainbow.

Perfect Ten: The 10 qualities of MMO sandboxes

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What is a sandbox MMO? At first glance, it seems like a pretty easy question to answer, especially if you're going by Kickstarter projects,...

Perfect Ten: 10 things to genuinely like about modern World of Warcraft

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Over the past year, it's been an interesting and illuminating experience to ping-pong back and forth between retail World of Warcraft and WoW Classic....
Set sail, etc.

Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMOs struggle with underwater content

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In Final Fantasy XIV, players could fly before they could swim. There's no joke there. The game's first expansion added the ability to fly through...
But bigger!

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that you can play on the Nintendo Switch

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Nintendo hasn't held the title of "serious gamer console" in a while, with specs that lack the sheer graphical and processing muscles of the...
This was a television show.

Perfect Ten: A small sampling of literary offerings from MMOs

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Salutations are in order once again for our most literate and eloquent readers of Massively Overpowered! I bid you welcome to our numerical column...
YOU KNEW IT WOULD COME BACK

Perfect Ten: 10 notable MMO developers that shut their doors

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When En Masse Entertainment announced that it would be closing its doors this fall, we here at Massively OP came to the realization that...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: What gamers need to understand about MMO mages

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So the first two times I tackled this type of topic for the Perfect Ten column here on Massively OP, I had the advantage...

Perfect Ten: 10 tools MMOs use to tell stories

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While some players like to rebel against the notion that MMORPGs are storytelling experiencies, that narrative is exactly why I show up to these...
Into the unknown.

Perfect Ten: Why do players keep playing MMOs they hate?

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Hating your recreation is an oddly common hobby for a lot of people. It's not universal, of course, but after any given new game...

Perfect Ten: 10 amazing hidden quests in World of Warcraft

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Finding quests in World of Warcraft is not exactly what you would call "difficult," as the game famously stuck giant floating exclamation marks over...
Never gonna get it, never gonna get it.

Perfect Ten: How to speak with your family members about playing MMOs

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The nice part about growing up with serious social awkwardness as "the weird one" in my family is that really, every strange fixation I...

Perfect Ten: 10 reasons WoW Classic is still fun in 2020

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WoW Classic just celebrated its first year of operation, and what a year it's been! Back in the summer of 2019, I was rediscovering...

Perfect Ten: 10 great tropical areas to visit in MMOs

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Probably a lot of us aren't getting that fantastic summer beach vacation that we had hoped to get this year. But instead of getting...
Oh great.

Perfect Ten: Ten things to do when you just want to chill out in an MMO

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Let's face it: Sometimes, playing MMORPGs -- as with any video game -- has the potential to stress us out. We might feel under...
Oh look.

Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs I was very wrong about

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Here's a not-actually-very-secret bit of honesty about the industry that I have been working in for about a decade now: I am not actually...

Perfect Ten: Ten reasons Fallout 76 is good, actually

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Here's the thing about criticism: It isn't mutually exclusive with appreciation. You can like something that you also criticize -- and your head won't...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: Classic alt challenges for MMOs

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When you start up your first character in a new MMO, it's all fresh and novel. But if you're the sort of tedious weirdo...

Perfect Ten: More time traveling adventures in MMOs

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Writers and geeks alike can't seem to get enough of time travel -- and neither can I! Back in 2017, I wrote a list of...

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