Destiny 2 has finally arrived for PC, and the fact that a crapton of our MMORPG readership is playing won’t surprise you, given that the game is already the best-selling video game of the year. Just try not to get banned, k?
Meanwhile, if you’re still wanting to throw money at Actiblizz, welp, BlizzCon – and that promised new WoW expansion – is fast approaching!
Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions.
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Destiny 2 finally arrives on PC, plans four seasons for first year, and becomes best-selling 2017 game - It's a glorious day for PC players, as they are being welcomed into Bungie's sci-fi universe with the release of Destiny 2. It's been a month and a half since…
WoW Factor: Speculating about World of Warcraft’s next expansion - It's really, really weird to me to think that we're getting an announcement about a new World of Warcraft expansion next week. Admittedly, we haven't been told the details yet,…
Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars The Old Republic’s cash shop is finally on the right track - [AL:TOR]Many of you will immediately turn to the free-to-play model of Star Wars: The Old Republic and reject my even thinking about the cash shop working the way it should,…
The Survivalist: ARK Aberration has already been delayed, but here’s what to expect - Surprise! ARK: Aberration, the survival sandbox's next expansion that was slated to launch this month, is delayed. Shocking, I know. Actually, if any fans were actually surprised, they obviously haven't…
Choose My Adventure: Not quite farewell to Guild Wars 2 - [AL:GW2]I am not done with Guild Wars 2. This may or may not come as a surprise to people, but it's still the case regardless. I am done with this…
Digital Extremes halts development on The Amazing Eternals - Digital Extremes announced this morning that it's halting development on The Amazing Eternals. "After many discussions internally on the state of The Amazing Eternals, we have decided to hit the…
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMO characters seem truly insane - We all like making the occasional observation about the weirdness inherent in video games, but most of us also recognize that what we're really doing is poking fun at the…
Massively Overthinking: The state of early access, alpha, and beta ‘testing’ in the MMO genre - I remember years ago when then-Massively-columnist Rubi Bayer let loose with a blistering rant on the state of faux beta MMOs. She helmed Betawatch back then, see, and she was…
The US government is considering DMCA exceptions for archived online games after all - Back in 2015, an exception was made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow for archival of aging video games that were otherwise inaccessible. This sort of exception needs…
Buy a new Intel Optane SSD, get a Star Citizen pixelship - As part of its CitizenCon 2017 reveals this morning - or this afternoon, if you're local to Frankfurt, where the event is taking place - Cloud Imperium announced a partnership…
LOTRO Legendarium: Reviewing the Mordor soundtrack - [AL:LOTRO]Here's a weird thing to admit: I was actually concerned when I heard that Lord of the Rings Online brought back Chance Thomas to score this year's Mordor expansion. It's…
Daybreak would like you to consider becoming an unpaid volunteer - Volunteer work is all well and good when it's for a worthy cause, but what about when it comes to donating your time to helping a company succeed? It's up…
MMO lockboxes: Market impact, regulation, and the letter of the law - GIbiz posted an article earlier this week peppered with quotes from Mat Piscatella, an NPD US games market analyst who suggests that the recent lootbox/lockbox grumbling hasn't had any effect…
Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City DLC launches today with new raid, houses, and transmutation - [AL:ESO]Elder Scrolls Online's Clockwork City DLC is live for PC and Mac players today, assuming they've ponied up for a sub or bought the bundle outright. As we've previously covered,…
Cliffy B on LawBreakers: ‘As far as I’m concerned, [the press] can fuck off’ - Here at Massively Overpowered, we generally try to avoid cursing, but there really are no two ways to put the Cliff Bleszinski quote from his latest interview on LawBreakers' post-launch…
ARK Survival Evolved will soon let you sleep on a bed – or handcuff someone to one - Late last night a couple of interesting announcements came through the Twitter pipeline about ARK: Survival Evolved -- namely, the ability to sleep on a bed upon logging or to…
SuperData declares Destiny 2 the ‘fastest selling digital console game in history’ - [AL:PUBG]SuperData's September 2017 video gaming market global revenue analysis should make Bungie happy, whether or not it was bleeding players ahead of the Destiny 2 PC launch, because hey, Bungie got…
Warframe doubled its concurrency record with Plains of Eidolon to become second top-played F2P on Steam - [AL:WarF]Four year-old Warframe's done it again: set a new concurrency record, and not even for the first time, as it busted past its concurrency records following The War Within last…
Star Wars: The Old Republic moves its servers to a location far, far away (from the west coast) - [AL:TOR]Ahead of the game's large-scale server merge, the Star Wars: The Old Republic servers have had their physical locations merged into one. It turns out all of the game's servers…
Bungie denies Destiny 2 community claims that third-party apps are triggering PC permabans [Updated] - We've updated with Bungie's latest statement at the end of this post. It's a classic case of he said, she said: the MMO edition. Following yesterday's rollout of Destiny 2…
Twitch is now dispensing Halloween lockboxes in exchange for donations to streamers - Hey, since it's absurdity week, let's just roll with it: Twitch is getting in on the lockox/lootcrate/gamblebox action, making every streamer and channel party to the system, even us. Basically, any…
MMO blogger dives into the theoretical math behind lockboxes - MMO blogger Serrenity, whom many of you will recognize from his clever comments here on MOP too, has a compelling blog post on his personal site today diving deep into…
Skyforge is launching early access for Xbox One on November 10 - [AL:Sky]Skyforge's ambitions just can't be tamed: First it launched on PC, then it came to the PlayStation 4 earlier this year. Now it's set its sights on Xbox One, as…
NeoGAF gaming forum goes offline after owner is accused of sexual harrassment - Long-running and popular video game forum NeoGAF went down virtually overnight this weekend following allegations of sexual harassment against the site's owner. A series of posts accusing owner Tyler "Evilore" Malka…
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s pre-alpha will launch by the holidays – but you can’t afford it - Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen fans viewing the team demoing the game at TwitchCon this past week were delighted to hear one surprise announcement: the confirmation of a pre-alpha test…
Former EA dev: EA only cares about what gamers will pay for - Former BioWare dev Manveer Heir has piped up on the subject of EA's business model following the shutdown of Visceral Games and the so-called "pivot" of its in-progress Star Wars…
John Smedley rallies the MMO community to help former EverQuest associate producer - Former SOE head honcho John Smedley put out a S.O.S. on Sunday for one of his former employees who is recovering from alcoholism and an emergency trip to the ICU.…
Leaderboard: Do you buy lockboxes in MMOs? Take the ‘purity’ test - A week or two ago, Massively OP reader Sally Bowls proposed a Leaderboard too intriguing to pass up. "How about a poll on your lockbox purity?" she suggested, rattling off…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
Massively OP Podcast Episode 141: Mouse invasions and elf butts
Battle Bards Episode 108: Vampires and werewolves
The Stream Team: Villagers & Heroes takes you to Spooky Town
The Stream Team: An aerial tour of scary things in ARK’s Ragnarok
The Stream Team: A night of Halloween reveling in Dungeons and Dragons Online
The Stream Team: Enjoying RIFT’s Autumn Harvest
The Stream Team: Trick-or-treating in Citadel: Forged with Fire
The Stream Team: Pillaging pumpkins in Trove’s Halloween
The Stream Team: Giving away creepy clown Halloween bundles in Wizard101
The Stream Team: Halloweening it up with Gigantic’s new necromancer
The Stream Team: Happy fourth anniversary Path of Exile!
The Stream Team: Racing through Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King
AND FROM OUR FRIENDS AT BLIZZARD WATCH
WoW 7.3.2’s undocumented changes makes rare mounts easier to get
What sub-races would you like added to WoW?
Sell a WoW token for gold while Destiny 2 is hot
Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the little bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.
