Yearly Archives: 2016

Playing this guy, for example, would be a good reason.

The Daily Grind: When was the last time you completely changed your main in an MMO?

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There's never really a reason to completely swap mains in Final Fantasy XIV unless you really, really want to have another character. You're never...

MMO Week in Review: You get an expansion, and YOU get an expansion! (November 20, 2016)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! It's...

Astellia Online proves that MMOs and TCGs can coexist in harmony

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One of the games that's emerging from G-Star 2016 is Nexon's Astellia Online, an MMO that heavily incorporates digital card game-like features into its...

The MOP Up: Wurm Online cooks up a hearty Thanksgiving meal (November 20, 2016)

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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...

Ultima Online’s publish 95 introduces December crafting festival and holiday rewards

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Ultima Online's publish 95 is live this week in the 19-year-old MMORPG. The headline features are the Artisan Festival and holiday rewards, which aren't...

Space Wars’ ship viewer gives players a hands-on preview of its vessels

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When you are sitting around waiting to get into an MMO's beta or for the launch itself, the frustration of not being able to...

One Shots: A home away from home

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If you were to move into an MMO for real, where would you live? I posed this question last week to the One Shots...

The Daily Grind: Do you make use of your MMORPG’s public test realms?

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The patch server. The PTR. The PTS. Whatever your MMORPG calls it, it's probably got one: some sort of publicly accessible server that gets the...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained likes big bots and it cannot lie (November 19, 2016)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, City State Entertainment posted a happy update for Camelot Unchained: Not only has the studio fixed the chat server problems...

Skyforge nerfs squad adventures and steels itself for a Reaper invasion

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Love it, hate it, or ambivalent toward it, it's hard to deny that Skyforge is pretty on the ball with its production of updates....

Black Desert guild heraldry sparks questions over offensive symbols

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This past week, an interesting guild situation arose in Black Desert. A Massively OP tipster was surprised by an unusual symbol above the entrance to a...

The Game Archaeologist: Mark Jacobs on Mythic’s early online games, part 2

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We're back with our second part of an interview retrospective of Mythic Entertainment's early online games with CSE's Mark Jacobs. Last week, we talked...

Dogma: Eternal Night playable builds are coming in December

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Thanks to some additional crowdfunding, Dogma: Eternal Night will be able to start rolling out playable builds starting at the end of December. These...

The Stream Team: Testing ARK’s Scorched Earth weaponry on wyverns

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MoPark may not have naturally occurring wyverns, but there will be some to hunt today! MassivelyOP's MJ is adding an ARK Scorched Earth dino...
Gosh, it's almost like the problems are real.

Overwatch frags its First Strike comic

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Overwatch's "expanded media universe" just shrunk a bit this week as the team announced that it has canceled development of the First Strike graphic...
why is that the picture omg

WRUP: I know what I’m doing edition

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Here, let me take over. Trust me, I know what I'm doing. Here, what I'm doing right now is grotesquely overstating my competence at...
Oh.

The Daily Grind: Do you hope that MMOs based on popular franchises return?

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Probably what is most upsetting about the current trend of MMORPG development is that most studios seem to have completely abandoned molding online roleplaying...

Ditch your ARK for another with cross-map transfers

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While folks are still waiting for a PS4 launch for ARK: Survival Evolved, (devs have said it is at SONY undergoing the certification process),...
Yeah, steal that cloud.

Betawatch: Cloud Pirates is ready for the next round of testing (November 18, 2016)

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Are you ready to steal a whole lot of clouds in Cloud Pirates? (If that's not the fictional background, please don't tell me, I...
ho ho ho indeed

Champions Online heralds the return of Nighthawk

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Legendary superhero Nighthawk has gone rogue -- or has he? Players will have to investigate a series of appearances of Nighthawk and his vigilante...

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