Yearly Archives: 2016
MMO Year in Review: One foot in One Tamriel (October 2016)
This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...
Massively OP’s 2016 Blooper Awards: Most-Covered Defunct MMO
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Most-Covered Defunct MMO, as proposed by BryanCo. And the winner is...
Star Wars Galaxies
Although City of...
Massively OP’s Weirdest MMORPG Stories of 2016: Hello Kitty TERA
We're counting down Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2016!
Coming in at #4 on our list is TERA's Hello Kitty promotion, as chronicled in my...
Leaderboard: What’s the best classic MMORPG still running?
By design, end-of-the-year awards rollouts usually recognize the new shinies. Seldom do they honor the resilient MMORPGs, the games that solider on for years...
LOTRO Legendarium: A cautious hope for the future
One of the threads that weaves the Lord of the Rings narrative together is that of hope. Holding onto faith in friends, perseverance against...
The Stream Team: Leaving 2016 behind in an underwater ARK cave
What better way to leave 2016 behind than abandoned deep underwater in an ARK cave? That's what Massively OP's MJ is doing. But she...
WRUP: The sunset edition
At the worst times in my life, I would often watch the sunset. Sunsets are comforting to me. Every sunset you see reminds you...
The Daily Grind: What tempts you into rolling a new MMO character?
I've recently returned to Lord of the Rings Online (as have several friends, thanks to the new studio announcement) and found myself getting sorely...
Betawatch: Hero’s Song abruptly stops the music (December 30, 2017)
This kill-happy year of 2016 has claimed a lot of lives, and the last week has also killed another game. Hero's Song has been...
The Stream Team: Fun times in LOTRO’s Frostbluff
Do you want to build a snowman? Massively OP's MJ does! And she can in LOTRO's Yule Festival. There are activities throughout the lands,...
MMO Year in Review: A whole New World (September 2016)
This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...
Escape from Tarkov wraps up its year of development in this 18-minute video
Before you jump into 2017 to escape the dystopian horror of this year, you might want to pause for a moment to catch up...
Massively OP’s Weirdest MMORPG Stories of 2016: Trove’s Porter Potties
Today we're kicking off a countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2016!
Coming in at #5 on our list is Trove's Porter Potties,...
Massively OP’s 2016 Blooper Awards: Best Skill in Project Gorgon
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Best Skill in Project Gorgon, as proposed by MOP reader Agemyth. And the winner is...
Literally...
The Stream Team: Decking DCUO’s halls for the holidays
By request, Massively OP's MJ is delving back Into DCUO. Not that her arm had to be twisted: How could MJ turn down the...
Revelation Online will have its own anime movie
Revelation Online isn't even officially out yet in the west, but the fantasy MMO has already spawned an anime film of its own.
The movie...
Chronicles of Elyria has raised $2 million to date
In case you forgot or weren't aware, this time last year, Chronicles of Elyria was basically four devs in a basement who were being...
The best Massively OP MMO polls of 2016
Every week for the last few years, we've expanded on our "Daily Grind" theme with a Leaderboard poll. I've had a blast taking over Leaderboard;...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: MMORPG of the Year
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for MMORPG the Year, which was awarded to Final Fantasy XIV last year.
Recall that in 2014, we...
EverFeud is being ‘built by PvPers for PvPers’
Would you like some PvP in your PvP? Then you should keep tabs on EverFeud, an in-development title that's creating a highly competitive environment...
