Bree Royce
Editor-in-Chief
Bree is an unrepentant escapist with a predilection for MMOs. When not compulsively proofreading cereal boxes and newspapers, she can be found modding, PvPing on the auction hall, and touring the Next Big Thing with her guild on a quest for the elusive perfect game.
Working As Intended and Ask Mo are her pet op-ed columns, but she also pens Daily Grinds and compiles Massively Overthinking, the Week in Review, and Make My MMO. You can hear her ramble about MMOs every week on the Massively OP podcast. If you're nice, she'll even talk about something other than Star Wars Galaxies.
Personal blog: SkycandyTwitter: @nbrianna
Favorite MMOs: Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes, Lord of the Rings Online, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Ultima Online
Leaderboard: How much time should you put in to become a great player in the typical MMO?
Earlier this week, GIbiz put out a piece on the Shanghai Dragons, the Overwatch League e-sports team representing China. In a letter to fans,...
Massively Overthinking: The case for rarity and randomness in MMO monetization
Last week, Guild Wars 2's Crystin Cox gave a monetization interview to Gamasutra during which she made one specific argument I wanted to pull...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG would you want to ‘live’ in if you had to live there forever?
MOP reader Oleg suggested today's Daily Grind in the bowels of the mystified comments under our piece on Entropia Universe on Wednesday. In a...
Wurm Online introduces new mechanic for sticking stuff on tabletops
Move over, sitting in chairs and walking in stations: MMORPG sandbox Wurm Online now has putting things on tables. And shelves too!
"We've wanted this...
Funcom Q1 2018 financials: Conan Exiles will be the studio’s ‘bestselling game of all time’
A year ago, MMO fans were thrilled to find out that Funcom had had its best quarter in ages thanks to the early access...
Dauntless clocks 1M registered players as it launches its F2P open beta
Dauntless has officially launched into open beta as of today. The co-op ARPG is free-to-play and out on PC, so everyone can basically jump...
EverQuest II’s Seeds of Vengeance has launched with a double XP event – go getcher free level 100 toon
Live in EverQuest II today is the long-awaited GU106: Seeds of Vengeance update. As Daybreak's previously noted, the update includes the new Shard of...
Grab a key for Wild Terra ahead of the holiday weekend courtesy of Juvty and MOP
Itching for something to play this Memorial Day weekend? How about Wild Terra? The isometric sandbox recently celebrated the first anniversary of its release with...
SuperData’s April 2018 revenue report shows Fortnite setting new records, GTAO slowing down
Fortnite had another record month of revenue in April, according to SuperData's latest global revenue report. "Epic’s Battle Royale shooter made $296 million in...
Greed Monger refunds stall over technical hurdles and Bitcoin prices
Greed Monger is the story that keeps on giving. Or taking. And then refunding. But not entirely?
Let's start at the beginning. Greed Monger is probably the...
Call of Duty swatting murder sees three men charged in federal court
At the end of 2017, a Call of Duty swatting incident in Kansas took the life of a completely innocent man after police killed him following...
Lost Ark enters ‘final’ closed beta in South Korea with new class trailers
Hey, remember back in 2014 when Smilegate first announced MMOARPGÂ Lost Ark? It's been a long time. As I've written before, I was positively smitten...
Guild Wars 2 posts small patch, plans Classic Guild Wars retrospective Q&A
Guild Wars 2's patch this week isn't a whopper like the balancing patch, but it does fix the nasty event bug in Bugtide Coast...
With 17M registered players, Trion’s voxelbox Trove launches in Japan
Trion Worlds is in an expansionist mood of late. Earlier this week, we learned Atlas Reactor was porting to Steam in China. Today, the...
Lahn is fully live in Black Desert today, with revamped login rewards tomorrow
Hope you took last week to roll up your Lahn character in Black Desert because today, you can actually tote her out into the...
Entropia Universe studio wants to let us live on forever inside an MMO – literally
If you're a fan of Altered Carbon or Westworld, you're going to love what MindArk says it's working on: The Entropia Universe studio aims...
Bless Online posts Q&A on pre-loading, regions, and how long founder packs stay up
If you grimace at the idea of getting important game news on Facebook but you still want to know what's up with Bless Online,...
RuneScape Classic is sunsetting this August thanks to instability, bots, and bugs
RuneScape has wound its way through many revisions and editions over the years, but Jagex usually left the original versions standing - or in...
H1Z1 launches open beta for PS4, is swarmed with over 200K concurrent players
It's been a long time coming, but H1Z1 finally hit open beta on the PlayStation 4 last night. If you forgot the game was...
Worlds Adrift admits early-game PvP griefing is a big problem and vows to address it
In Andrew's hands-on with Worlds Adrift published Monday, he expressed some serious concerns over the title's approach to PvP. Even as a hardened sandbox...
