Final Fantasy XIV knows how to throw a giant reveal extravaganza, and that’s exactly what it did this week, giving us opportunity to deep-dive the upcoming Shadowbringers expansion and publish nine pieces on the game’s new jobs, class changes, dungeons, and even an interview with Naoki Yoshida himself.
Meanwhile, Worlds Adrift announced its sunset, EVE Online dropped Invasion, we dived into Conan Unconquered, Starbase was revealed, and we poked around Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr and cash shop.
Read on to catch up with the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions today as every Sunday in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
MassivelyOP’s Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers media tour coverage - A new expansion is on the way for Final Fantasy XIV, with early access starting up in less than a month. But what if you could take a peek at the…
Worlds Adrift to close in July with ‘End of the World Party’ - Say farewell to grappling hooks, sky piracy, endless exploration, and one promising SpatialOS MMORPG, because Worlds Adrift has announced that it is closing its doors in July 2019. This sounds…
Tamriel Infinium: Keep playing Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr – the story gets better - Like many of you, I have been participating in the early access for Elsweyr for this last week. In fact, I played some of the new Elder Scrolls Online chapter…
Tamriel Infinium: Massively OP’s guide to The Elder Scrolls Online’s cash shop - [AL:ESO]Ah, the crown store: the third leg of the business model (along with buy-to-play and subscription) that’s powered The Elder Scrolls Online to one of the more profitable MMOs currently…
WoW Factor: Why do people remember classic WoW being so much harder than it actually was? - As much as there's a moment of schadenfreude in the people compiling lists specifying that no, World of Warcraft: Classic being classic is not a bug, it's not something that…
Flameseeker Chronicles: Why Guild Wars 2 has my favorite flying mounts - When Guild Wars 2 announced that the central mechanic of its Path of Fire expansion was going to be mounts, a lot of people rolled their eyes. Ater all, it’s…
Lawful Neutral: Why Josh Hawley’s lockbox regulation Senate bill is dead-on-arrival - There's a special place in my heart for lootboxes and exploitative monetization, and that place is somewhere below the revulsion I feel for Martin Shkreli or going for a swim…
Warframe of Mind: Should Digital Extremes ditch RNG in endgame loot drops? - Here's a question for you: Should a game that eschewed random loot boxes at the request of players use RNG loot drops for rare endgame items? Does it make sense…
New MMO Starbase pretty much sounds like EverQuest Next in space plus robots - Finnish developer Frozenbyte just dropped a brand-new MMO on the Steam store: It's called Starbase, and it's set to launch into early access "later in 2019." And yes, they're very…
Not So Massively: First impressions of Conan Unconquered - I don't have any particular attachment to Conan the Barbarian as a franchise. I'm barely even familiar with it, in fact. But I do love me some RTS action, and…
Perfect Ten: 10 things I’d love to see added to City of Heroes in the rogue server era - When will the staff here stop talking about City of Heroes? Now that there's actually something to talk about regarding it, probably never. Look, you all know that there was a big…
Some Assembly Required: Will Starbase’s focus on minutiae be too much of a good thing? - Recently, Massively Overthinking explored chores in sandboxes and MMOs that can feel like jobs. I may not have answered that then, but boy am I getting a chance to here!…
City of Heroes: Homecoming adds numerical power cooldowns, nerfs Death from Below, adds User Agreement - It's patch day for City of Heroes' Homecoming servers, and it's a fun one as it effectively launches the numerical power cooldown indicators teased earlier this week. This feature is…
Jukebox Heroes: The best of Guild Wars 2’s Season 4 soundtrack - On May 14th, Guild Wars 2 fans were delivered a bittersweet message from the game's main composer, Maclaine Diemer. Diemer, who had been adding music to the title ever since…
The Game Archaeologist: 1998’s Mankind - In the annals of the MMO genre, the massively multiplayer RTS has had perhaps the worst go of any variations on these online games. While super-hot in the 1990s, the…
Sci-fi strategy MMORPG Destiny’s Sword is seeking $22K on Kickstarter - We've been covering Destiny's Sword for over a year now, since we first took a curious peek back at GDC 2018 and followed it up at this year's PAX East.…
Massively Overthinking: Tackling the ‘big four MMOs’ meme - Over the last couple of months, there's been a meme floating around the MMORPG subreddit. Someone will ask that the community recommend a game, and the responses will all look…
Anthem releases update 1.2.0 – without loot changes – and plans PTS for Cataclysm - The latest update for BioWare's MMO-shooter Anthem has gone live, bringing with it some minor quality-of-life improvements, a handful of gear adjustments, and a bunch of bug fixes. The update…
Guild Wars 2’s attribute-selectable gear balancing patch – and a new chair – are live today - Guild Wars 2's latest balancing update is live today, with a promised overhaul of attribute-selectable gear - that is, gear for which you can pick stat sets according to your…
Choose My Adventure: The Agent, the Eagle, and the Sith in Star Wars The Old Republic - Things have come to a head in my Star Wars: The Old Republic adventure, and it all wrapped in rather neat fashion for the end of this month's column, honestly.…
City of Heroes: Community harassment ramps up as Homecoming counts 91,000 players - What should have been a fun Memorial Day weekend in Paragon City turned into nightmares for some members of the City of Heroes rogue server community. The Reddit-backed Reborn/Pleiades server posted…
‘Gaming disorder’ has been officially added to the World Health Organization’s ICD-11 - The World Health Organization has officially adopted a revision to its International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) to include "Gaming disorder," leading to yet another round…
The Invasion begins with EVE Online’s latest expansion - Abyssal Deadspace was not enough to hold the Triglavians, which means dire things for New Eden. But more importantly, it means new content for EVE Online as the Invasion expansion…
Wild West Online rebrands as New Frontier, now with steampunk and alien monsters - You know what they say: When a horse is beaten to death, that's just a good opportunity to reanimate it as a steampunk monstrosity. The monstrosity is, in this case,…
Not So Massively: StarCraft II co-op is one of online gaming’s greatest hidden gems - Between the disappointment of the current World of Warcraft expansion, the abandonment of Diablo III, and other... unpleasantness, I find my lifelong fandom of Blizzard Entertainment games at an all-time…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
Massively OP Podcast Episode 222: A good EVEning to be invaded
Battle Bards Episode 145: Dark Age of Camelot
The Stream Team: Taking a launch look at PixARK
The Stream Team: Doing Warframe’s The Second Dream story
The Stream Team: Investigating Secret World Legends’ Egypt
The Stream Team: Back to Balmorra and Belsavis for SWTOR datacrons
The Stream Team: A first look at Conan Unconquered
The Stream Team: Shooting through Path of Exile’s Synthesis super league
The Stream Team: Diving into Dead by Daylight
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 bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.
