This week, MOP’s own Final Fantasy XIV expert Eliot Lefebvre got his hands on Endwalker as part of the massive media tour that wallopped the industry on Wednesday; he delivered nine articles for your eyeballs, including impressions of every single job, the first dungeon, and three zones, as well as an interview with Naoki Yoshida himself.
Plus, we welcomed Book of Travels to early access, recapped CitizenCon, got a peek at Path of Exile’s Scourge, and shook our collective heads at LOTRO’s bungled patch and New World’s continuing lack of transfers. We also introduced a brand-new New World column, Vitae Aeternum; our staff has thus far chronicled the game’s contradictory design feel, comparison to other MMOs, and customization issues.
Read on to catch up with the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions today as every Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!FINAL FANTASY XIV ENDWALKER
Complete coverage of the Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour
Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: An interview with Naoki Yoshida
Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing three of the new zones
Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the Tower of Zot
Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the ranged physical DPS jobs
Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the tank jobs
Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the magical DPS jobs
Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the healing jobs
Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: Previewing the melee DPS jobs
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Lord of the Rings Online’s revamped legendary item system is a hot mess - Lord of the Rings Online's long-awaited and much-needed overhaul to its legendary item system arrived earlier this week. But instead of succeeding in its goal to streamline and simplify what…
New World delays server transfers again to avoid disrupting weekend play - Last week, Amazon Games had announced that server transferring for New World players would be pushed back to fix some "edge case" problems that were discovered. At the time of…
WoW Factor: So when will we get the next World of Warcraft expansion announcement? - Under normal circumstances for World of Warcraft, this would be a very stupid topic for an article because it would have a very obvious answer and thus would make a column…
Kickstarted tiny MMO Book of Travels has officially launched into early access - It's early access launch day for tiny MMO Book of Travels, originally Kickstarted back in 2019 for $261,000 with all stretch goals accounted for. Swedish studio Might and Delight, known…
Vitae Aeternum: New World excels and entertains despite uninspired gameplay design - After more than 20 levels’ worth of time in New World, you’d think I’d have a pretty good handle on why this game has me enthralled, but the more I…
Valve appears to be banning titles with NFT and crypto trading from Steam - Saying that Valve and Steam have some problems is not a hot take. It is more of a lukewarm take, or if you want to be less charitable, a statement…
Dungeons and Dragons Online gives away 48 quest packs, puts expansions on sale - What's better than 47 free quest packs handed to you with no strings attached? That's obvious: 48 free quest packs. Believe it or not, that's exactly what's happening right now…
Vague Patch Notes: All MMO play and no work makes Jack a dull boy - Here is my hard-hitting New World review: I haven't played it and don't have any urgent impetus to do so, but maybe it's great. It certainly seems to have no dearth…
Embers Adrift just opened $50 preorders with access to this weekend’s alpha and beyond - We've been tracking Stormhaven Studios' moves all year, ever since the company announced that it was rebranding Saga of Lucimia as Embers Adrift following the bizarre departure of the game’s original founders. As of this…
Tamriel Infinium: Looking back at Elder Scrolls Online’s Morrowind - In 2002, the Elder Scrolls CRPG franchise took its biggest step forward to date with the release of its third game, Morrowind. While Arena and Daggerfall had its fans in…
Blizzard pins Diablo II Resurrected’s server issues partly on 2001 netcode from the classic game - While Diablo and brothers never really had much trouble returning to Sanctuary over and over again, the heroes who seek to slay them (over and over) certainly have! As we…
Animal Crossing New Horizons adds cooking and island design in major update and paid DLC - If you thought Animal Crossing: New Horizons was effectively dead lately, you're not alone: The updates for the last six months were unhappy times even for those of us who'd stuck…
LOTRO Legendarium: Embracing the journey that is Lord of the Rings Online - I know that there are a whole lot of things I should be talking about Lord of the Rings Online in this week's space, considering that we just got the…
Paladins art director responds to anti-anthro character skin petition by making another anthro skin called Salt - This story is the level of professional pettiness that I aspire to. Let's cast our minds back to June 2020, when a streamer shared a petition to delete a skin…
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s latest interview is light on answers and heavy on spin - In our many years of coverage of Pokemon Go, we've found it's been pretty common for Niantic to issue unclear announcements, and one-on-one interviews with the company have been scarce.…
Perfect Ten: Strategies for juggling multiple MMOs - Among my friends, I have a reputation for being "that guy who plays all the games." People are constantly asking me how I manage to handle so many MMOs simultaneously…
Massively Overthinking: What’s the most painful or memorable bug you ever experienced in an MMO? - Witnessing all the folks upset over losing gear and trades to rollbacks over and over in Diablo II Resurrected made me reflect on some of the nasty bugs, exploits, and…
Path of Exile’s Scourge revamps skill tree, adds passive masteries and guild hideouts - While Path of Exile's new Scourge league is fitting for Halloween, the expansion also brings some goodies and changes that will last beyond the holiday. These updates are permanent additions…
Path of Exile’s spooky Scourge league offers tricks and treats starting October 22 - Path of Exile's new leagues and updates come like clockwork every three months, just like seasons of the year. But it isn't often that one fits so well in the…
Massively on the Go: Dealing with virtual harassment and stalking in MMOARGs - Gamers have been discussing the real-world issues that arise in augmented reality games, especially Pokemon Go, for years. In fact, Raph Koster himself addressed not only how ARG issues were…
You need to see how pretty Albion Online will be after its biome rework - OK, maybe "need" is a strong word there, but I for one am happy to see what Sandbox Interactive is up to with Albion Online right about how. What it's…
Diablo III’s Wyatt Cheng claims the game’s tuning wasn’t based on the real-money auction house - Remember the Diablo III real-money auction house? Of course you do; that stuff is like horse armor or "you think you want it, but you don't." It's timeless. Developer and Diablo…
Vitae Aeternum: New World through the eyes of an Elder Scrolls Online and EVE Online player - When I heard that Amazon Game Studios was releasing an MMO, my plan was to watch from the sidelines until such time that all the bugs were worked out and…
Former UK Star Citizen player outlines the steps he took to get a refund from CIG - If you're dissatisfied with how Star Citizen is being managed to the point that you want a refund and you happen to live in the UK, then this Reddit post…
Guild Wars 2 dates livestream previews of End of Dragons zones, expansion features, and siege turtles - Hold up, the End of Dragons expansion of Guild Wars 2 is getting siege turtles? Like... giant tortoises mounted with siege weaponry stomping onto the field of battle? Where can…
LOTRO expansion pre-patch adds Halloween, Brawlers, LI revamp, and housing hook consolidation - While Standing Stone Games might not be calling today's Lord of the Rings Online update the expansion pre-patch, but... it's the Fate of Gundabad expansion pre-patch. Update 30.3 arrives on…
Two government agencies are now squabbling over ethics allegations in Activision-Blizzard cases - The Activision-Blizzard sexual discrimination and harassment lawsuit is back in the news this week, but for an unexpected reason. Readers will recall that the California DFEH, which is pursuing one…
Wisdom of Nym: More speculation about future Final Fantasy XIV jobs - I'm going to be entirely candid with you, folks: You all probably know by now when the media tour embargo lift is at this point (Wednesday of this week), and…
Vitae Aeternum: New World lacks customization, but that can be fixed - Welcome to our first installment of Vitae Aeternum, an ongoing column in which multiple writers of MassivelyOP plan to bring you coverage, opinions, rants, and more on the topic of…
Stick and Rudder: Recapping everything Star Citizen showed at the latest CitizenCon - The digital CitizenCon event has, for all intents and purposes, come and gone, lining up a series of seven different video panels that were full of plenty of reveals, details,…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
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.
