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Perfect Ten: My demands to MMORPGs after 13 years
I've mentioned many times that my first MMO was Final Fantasy XI. It released in North America 13 years ago as of tomorrow. I...
Battle Bards Episode 85: Desert Calling
The desert is calling the Battle Bards, but are they willing to make the trek across these vast wastelands to see if the music...
The Stream Team: Death doesn’t stop SWTOR’s Emperor
When you are really committed to your goals, why would you let a little thing like death stop you? In SWTOR, the Emperor sure...
Hyperspace Beacon: Outside-the-box Star Wars The Old Republic gameplay
For some reason, this time of year always seems to be a down time in the activity of large-scale MMORPG development. Although Star Wars:...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 88: Miles per hour
Justin and Bree discuss AQ3D, Halloween, SWTOR, LOTRO, RIFT, and the health of the MMO market, with mailbag letters on the MMO endgame paradigm and SOTA vs. Camelot Unchained.
SWTOR starts laying the foundation for expansion’s new endgame
Less than a week after Star Wars: The Old Republic announced that it will be making sweeping endgame changes with Knights of the Eternal...
Jennifer Hale argues in favor of voice actor strike
If you play video games with sound on, you've probably heard Jennifer Hale's voice more than once: She's a voice actress with countless credits...
Global Chat: The buzz over SWTOR’s December expansion
The Force is strong with Star Wars: The Old Republic's new expansion, at least by all of the buzz that it's created thanks to...
Star Wars: the Old Republic previews the mechanics of Dark vs. Light
The light side and the dark side of the Force are kind of an entire thing in any Star Wars media, especially Star Wars:...
Hyperspace Beacon: Examining SWTOR’s contentious 5.0 endgame gear grind
If you didn't watch the Star Wars: The Old Republic livestream on Monday, then you missed Creative Director Charles Boyd, Producer Ben Irving, and...
Star Wars: The Old Republic previews Galactic Command and unified gearing
When Star Wars: The Old Republic launches its next expansion, you can say farewell to the old rules about gear progression. The Galactic Command...
Video game voice actors to strike on October 21st
Voice acting, increasingly, is a big part of MMOs; while Star Wars: The Old Republic puts it forth as a core feature, games like...
The MOP Up: Aima gets a death sentence (October 16, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
One Shots: Always fall, never winter
Thank you to everyone who posted pictures of autumnal scenery from MMOs. It truly is one of the best seasons (the worst is Smarch......
Global Chat: Is Destiny’s Rise of Iron any good?
If you don't have a console but were still interested in hearing whether or not Destiny: Rise of Iron was any good, fret not:...
Perfect Ten: Incompetent leaders in MMORPGs
Leadership is difficult. You have to get a group of people to work together when they may or may not be naturally inclined to...
The Stream Team: Managing SWTOR’s mind-controlled minions in Ziost
While trying to unravel the Emperor's plans in SWTOR last time, Massively OP's MJ rooted out a spy (Larry let him go!). But there is...
Tamriel Infinium vs Hyperspace Beacon: Three ways to make lockboxes work better in MMORPGs
Last week, I stirred up a hornet’s nest by bringing up the topic of lockboxes and how I really didn’t mind them in general.
Hyperspace...
SWTOR is ‘refocusing on group content’
Players will be able to start playing Star Wars: The Old Republic's next expansion starting next month, but players have a fair number of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 86: One Tamriel, two voices, three expansions
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Ultima Online, RIFT, Meridian 59, SWTOR, the EQ franchise, ESO One Tamriel, WoW's subs, and Crowfall's SWG tendencies, with mailbag letters on dealing with character boosts and Guild Wars 2's new cadence.
