RvR stands for “realm vs. realm,” usually a reference to faction-based player-vs.-player warfare, and frequently (though not always) in the context of more than two realms.
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WoW Factor: Shadowlands has a release date… again
I really thought I had written a column when World of Warcraft properly announced the launch date for Shadowlands. Alas, I apparently did not. But I...
Massively Overthinking: Doing crimes and getting punished in MMORPGs
A couple of weeks before Dual Universe's snafu banning beta players for taking advantage of a developer's poorly permissioned structure, I saw the game's...
EVE Online’s World War Bee 2 refreshed its hold over two Guinness World Records
It's officially official: EVE Online broke another Guinness World Record. Two of them, in fact, and it already held them, but now it holds...
Lawful Neutral: The Epic vs. Apple lawsuit – when titans are tweens
The MassivelyOP Golden Yacht was anchored someplace off the coast of Maine when the first news about Epic suing Apple hit. We had sailed...
Lord of the Rings Online tweaks War of the Three Peaks, talks more about classic server difficulties
The first post-release patch for War of the Three Peaks has hit Lord of the Rings Online, bringing a bundle of changes and tweaks...
Destiny 2 fans clamor over some datamined story hints ahead of Beyond Light
With only a couple of weeks left before the Beyond Light expansion arrives to Destiny 2 on November 10th, an intriguing leaked image has...
War Thunder announces graphical upgrades, next-gen console release with crossplay
There's New Power coming to the online multiplayer vehicle battler War Thunder. No, that's not a failure to understand proper capitalization, that's the name...
Beyond the Wire thrusts you into a WWI multiplayer battlefield
While World War II has been done and done and done some more in the gaming space, its prequel hasn't gotten as much coverage....
LOTRO Legendarium: Is LOTRO at war with Orcs – or with its playerbase?
Normally, I would be opening this column with my enthusiastic explorations of the brand-new content update for Lord of the Rings Online. After all,...
A Black Desert node war bug dumped quadrillions of silver into the North American servers
Protip: If your Black Desert guild mysteriously manages to pull quadrillions of silver in tax from the guild incentive system, maybe just log out...
Perfect Ten: A small sampling of literary offerings from MMOs
Salutations are in order once again for our most literate and eloquent readers of Massively Overpowered! I bid you welcome to our numerical column...
Choose My Adventure: Good friends and bad player behavior in Star Wars Squadrons
Well, I was hoping for this to be more fun than it actually was. I adore the heck out of X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter,...
Lord of the Rings Online’s $20 quest pack, War of Three Peaks, launches today
It's a strange and uncertain new era in Lord of the Rings Online, as Standing Stone Games has moved to start selling quest packs...
Wisdom of Nym: Going to war in Bozja in Final Fantasy XIV
Here we are in the wake of Final Fantasy XIV's latest content patch, and while there are a lot of different things that were technically...
Fight or Kite: Checking out veteran sci-fi sandbox MMO Vendetta Online – on mobile
Over the last few months, I’ve been playing around with VR on my phone. I know, not the ideal VR experience but I had...
Lord of the Rings Online’s paid fall quest pack is arriving ‘shortly’ as world transfers re-open
Lord of the Rings Online's fall DLC, which the studio is trying to market as a "mini-expansion," should be coming within the next week...
The MOP Up: Phantasy Star Online 2 hands out more treats than tricks
Phantasy Star Online 2 fans can log in this week to enjoy a nice burst of additional content, including the fourth and fifth chapters...
The End is a Viking-themed multiplayer survival action RPG from Legends of Aria’s Citadel Studios
Citadel Studios, best known around these parts as the folks behind sandbox MMORPG Legends of Aria, has pulled back the curtain on a new...
StarCraft II officially ends development as Blizzard ‘thinks about what’s next’
Earlier this year, MOP's Tyler noted that StarCraft II had quietly become Blizzard's best-managed game, with updates and events rolling out even a decade...
Massively Overthinking: What one MMO mechanic or system would you like to banish to the ends of the earth?
Back in September, one of our dear readers Aldristavan sent in a fun question for the Massively OP Podcast: What's one outdated MMO mechanic...
