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Massively Uplifting: From weddings to memorials, gamers celebrate life in AQ3D, GW2, BDO, LOTRO, WoW, and more
It's an alphabet soup of good (MMO) vibes this month! While many may have returned to the school of hard knocks this fall, plenty...
RuneFest 2019: Old School RuneScape’s Morytania expansion, Twisted league, group ironman, and clans
What's in store for Old School RuneScape in 2020? Plenty. Before the big stage reveal at this year's RuneFest 2019, John Colgrave, product manager...
Wisdom of Nym: The space remaining in Final Fantasy XIV
If we get more than two more expansions in Final Fantasy XIV, we're going to be moving into some interesting territory: Players are at level...
Fight or Kite: Impressions of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse, a solid fantasy battle royale nobody is playing
A mere fortnight ago, the team behind Ashes of Creation took its MMO combat testing ground known as Apocalypse and opened the doors on...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most awesome MMORTS title out there?
Do you ever have one of those moments where somebody asks you something that's just ever so slightly adjacent to your field of work...
Jukebox Heroes: Exploring EverQuest’s official soundtrack
It is fairly rare for an MMORPG to sell an official soundtrack these days unless the game is fairly prominent (i.e., Final Fantasy XIV...
One Shots: Getting all down and cozy
I love a good cozy place in an MMO, moreso if it's got a fully stocked snack bar and some of my all-time favorite...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever mentored a new player in an older MMO?
It was a few years back when my wife decided to give Final Fantasy XI another shot and finally found it really clicking for her....
Ask Mo: Second chances, hate wagons, and the MMORPG grudge game
Today's Ask Mo is not really about comment moderation, but it's where I want to start.
Over the years of trying to cat-herd Massively OP's...
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you wish could live forever?
You all know that I love my hypotheticals by now, so here's another one for our daily discussion period. Imagine that you have the...
WoW (Classic) Factor: The journal of Nieve Vinther – fourth entry
The night after my last entry, Ceilidh took me out to the shores of Loch Modan. It wasn't for an occasion or anything; we...
Lawful Neutral: Endorsements, disclosures, and the games industry
Infomercials are the worst. There's nothing quite as infuriating as turning on the TV only to find a 30-minute commercial about how people can't...
Leaderboard: Are you concerned for the future of Guild Wars 2?
Yesterday, we learned that ArenaNet's Mike O'Brien, who'd run the company that ushered both Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 into the MMORPG genre...
Raph Koster’s new MMORPG will be more than ‘just hack and slashing your way through levels’
Yesterday, we reported on something pretty thrilling for long-time MMORPG fans: Raph Koster, one of the brains behind classic MMORPG sandboxes Ultima Online and...
The Daily Grind: How do you deal with multi-timezone MMO guilds?
There was a neat thread on the MMORPG subreddit a few weeks back about how to organize MMO guilds across multiple timezones. If you...
Massively Overthinking: The one about MMO roleplay servers
An MOP reader named Thierry recently pointed us to a brewing storm in the World of Warcraft Classic community: In a nutshell, the server...
Vague Patch Notes: Copies, blatant copies, and plagiarism in MMOs
So... this was honestly not the story that I had expected to have wound up coming out of Eternal Magic. I'd been expecting that "beauty...
Into the Super-verse: Why Ship of Heroes’ character customization tool is so important
What kind of hero are you going to be today?
In most MMOs, that question and its possible answers are watered down and homogenized, but...
The Daily Grind: What would get you to try out a battle royale title?
Battle royale games are both the newest flash-in-the-pan and one of the oldest genres out there; it's not exactly a new idea to put...
Perfect Ten: Solo prequel games to MMORPGs
When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce...
