Assuming you weren’t consumed by hurricane preparations this week, you very likely descended upon Destiny 2 with a sick day in tow, as Bungie’s sequel formally rolled out to console players around the world. Meanwhile, the MMO genre fussed over Secret World’s raid locks, World of Warcraft’s flightless Argus, and the end of Perpetuum.
Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions.
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Destiny 2’s console edition has officially launched around the globe - [AL:D2]Did you stay up last night until midnight, waiting for your turn at Destiny 2? Were you watching the Bungie feed as it posted launches around the globe, its social…
Secret World Legends’ raid update and Manhattan Exclusion zone are now live - [AL:SWL]Level 50 Secret World Legends folks, get ready to raid... again. Funcom's just released the New York raid to the relaunched and retooled MMO. "The Manhattan Exclusion zone is now…
No, Star Citizen’s 3.0 alpha isn’t ready yet, but here’s how to ‘breathe’ while you wait - 3.0 when? We still don't know. Star Citizen's Eric Kieron Davis begins the latest Around the Verse with a Burndown segment, noting that the team's reduced the must-fix list down…
Flameseeker Chronicles: Getting to grips with Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire mounts - [AL:GW2]ArenaNet dedicated last week to all things mounts, so it stands to reason that I'd simply have to provide you with a run-down of the flashy new expansion inclusions for…
Destiny 2’s Curse of Osiris DLC confirmed, Bungie responds to shader controversy - Yesterday, we touched on the controversy brewing in Destiny 2, where Bungie has begun selling one-use consumables dubbed shaders (akin to dyes) - items that were free in the original…
World of Warcraft’s Argus hasn’t got flying – and it never will - So, had you been hoping that at some point World of Warcraft would let you fly in the final zone of Legion? Best give up that hope. The official word…
ArcheAge goes offline for two days for massive server merges, land rush scheduled for Friday - [AL:Arche]We warned you about it back in July, and now it's here. ArcheAge is merging (er, "evolving") a dozen of its underpopulated servers down to four. This intensive process starts…
PAX West 2017: Ship of Heroes on exploration, community, and recapturing the magic of City of Heroes - Sometimes MMORPG players might get the feeling that game companies will let just about anything slide in order to keep the most revenue streaming in, but that's not the case…
The Game Archaeologist: Climax’s Warhammer Online - Let's begin with a little personal history. Back in 2008, I decided to get into the blogging scene by jumping on board the latest MMO hotness -- in this case,…
Skysaga might not be completely down and out - Many players, including some of those here at Massively OP, were crushed to hear last month that the colorful MMO Skysaga had to shut down development due to its publisher…
PAX West 2017: Taking a closer look at En Masse’s Closers - [AL:Clo]When I visited the En Masse offices during PAX West, it was a crash course in learning how to use a controller -- which I haven't picked up in years…
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMOs of 2017’s PAX West - PAX West 2017 has come and gone, and though MJ is still feverishly working on her last few articles, we wanted to pause a moment to reflect on everything we've…
PAX West 2017: Hands-on with Amazing Eternals - If I had to pick a PAX West booth to give an award to for sheer fun factor, it would go to Digital Extremes’ new board/card/computer game combo The Amazing…
PAX West 2017: Trion’s PvE MMO shooter Defiance deserves a second look - I admit that before PAX West 2017, I hadn't logged into Defiance in a long, long time. I couldn't even say how long. Even so, I still have very fond…
One of the last Asheron’s Call emulators vanished last night - When Asheron's Call shut down last winter following the spinoff of Standing Stone Games from Turbine, one of the few hopes the community had to cling to was the player-run…
Magic: The Gathering announces new online game, still no word on Cryptic’s MMO edition - Remember how former Turbine President Jeffrey Steefel was snapped up by Wizards of the Coast this past January to head up a digital games studio for the studio's IPs? Now…
Everyone seems to love Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light, and it’s not what you think - [AL:FFXIV]Are you interested in watching a series about Final Fantasy XIV that's actually about watching two people play the game? You might be surprised. Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light…
PAX West 2017: Hands-on with Dauntless’ new behemoth - Although I'd recently played a bit of Dauntless, I was looking forward to my hands-on at PAX West. That's because I was primed to see -- and hopefully face --…
Destiny 2 players enthuse over memories montage, complain about shaders - [AL:D2]Let's face it: Players will never be completely happy. Your average player may swing from a most ardent fan to a scathing critic in the span of an hour, if…
Blizzard to open an e-sports arena this fall - Everybody knows that if you are truly serious about being a legitimate force in the e-sports industry, you have to own your own arena. It's just common sense. And soon…
Paragon players rage over ‘pay-to-win’ monetization changes and loot crates - No exaggeration: The Paragon subreddit is in absolute uproar over the MOBA's newest monetization tactic. The board is currently covered with dozens of threads angry over the game's new buyable packs…
Hyperspace Beacon: A happy accident in Star Wars The Old Republic gives us hope for the future of CXP - [AL:TOR]The last couple of weeks have been really rough week for Star Wars: The Old Republic from a technical standpoint. The Umbara update itself gave us a handful of bugs,…
Raptr is shutting down on September 30th - Do you remember Raptr? You can see a screenshot from our own memories of it right there in the header. Yes, there was a time when Raptr provided us plenty…
Perfect Ten: MMOs that changed their names - Names and titles fascinate me. While sometimes they have no deeper meaning than to sound pleasant and be memorable, a label can indicate purpose, history, and connection. MMORPG names are,…
Guild Wars 2 on how Path of Fire is the most ‘complex’ story ANet’s done - [AL:GW2]Even if you're a Guild Wars lore fan whose favorite word is "Cantha," it's likely that you've lost a bit of the story along the road between Guild Wars 1…
WildStar doubles-down on housing with today’s Homecoming update - Don't change that channel, kiddos: It's time for the WildStar patch show! On today's episode, "Homecoming," the planet of Nexus gets overtaken by redecoration fever, and spontaneous communities crop up…
‘Yes, you can transmute any weapon or armor’ in Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City DLC - One of the most intriguing bits of news to emerge in The Elder Scrolls Online's Clockwork City DLC preview yesterday was the details behind the brand-new transmutation system. As ZeniMax…
PAX West 2017: Dual Universe demos its persistent, seamless, sandbox universe - If you were hoping that another title would pick up the idea of a voxel world and run with it, you're getting your wish. I met with Jean-Christophe Baillie, the…
Funcom will still love Conan Exiles when the new baby is here - Longtime Funcom watchers and MMORPG veterans already knew that Funcom was working on multiple games as part of its Conan franchise push, but some Conan Exiles players newly come to…
World of Warcraft’s hidden and hotfixed patch 7.3 changes - With such a massive update as was delivered with last week's World of Warcraft Patch 7.3, it's pretty obvious that some stuff was going to get missed. There are plenty of undocumented…
Exploration MMO Wander quietly died and almost no one noticed - Cast your mind back to 2015 and see if you can recall an odd MMO launching on PC and PlayStation 4 called Wander. It was notable for being a non-combat…
EVE Evolved: Get ready for EVE Online’s Lifeblood expansion! - [AL:EVE]EVE Online's upcoming Lifeblood expansion was officially announced last week, and it's landing a lot earlier than expected. Though it appears that Lifeblood is the winter expansion CCP Games has…
Perpetuum ends active development, eyes private servers - It's both an end and a beginning for Perpetuum Online. The team announced on September 3rd that it is no longer actively developing for the sci-fi sandbox MMORPG: "So you…
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