Bree Royce

Bree Royce
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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: Skycandy
Twitter: @nbrianna
Favorite MMOs: Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes, Lord of the Rings Online, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Ultima Online

Leaderboard: Did you participate in Crowfall’s equity crowdfunding raise?

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Finishing up today is Crowfall's Indiegogo-based equity crowdfunding campaign, one of the first games and MMORPGs to take advantage of new 2016 laws that...

Funcom stresses the importance of lore and mystery in Conan Exiles

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Conan lore is probably the most contentious thing about the franchise, and Funcom today has clarified the focus of that lore in Conan Exiles when...

The Daily Grind: Will you give The Repopulation another chance?

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The after-hours Friday revelation that The Repopulation is relaunching early this year took a lot of our readers by surprise. The much-wanted sandbox MMORPG had...
A wreck of our ambition

MMO Week in Review: Weekend surprises from Nostalrius and The Repopulation (January 15, 2017)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! This...

Cops-and-robbers sandbox Identity on griefing, prison, customization, and more

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Identity is an open-world, cops-and-robbers sandbox, and it isn't asking you for money. That's because it was already Kickstarted to the tune of almost...

Make My MMO: The Repopulation’s new owner, Shards Online’s alpha (January 14, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Above & Beyond announced that Hero Engine company Idea Fabrik has acquired all rights to its indie sci-fi sandbox...

Nostalrius has decided handing its WoW emu code to Elysium wasn’t such a good idea after all

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So here's a twist in the Nostalrius saga that we didn't see coming: The group has changed its mind about supporting its code on...

The Repopulation will relaunch in Q1 2017, now owned by Idea Fabrik

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"Great News! The Repopulation is coming back!" -- or so said a hastily deleted tweet from Idea Fabrik last night, which you might have...
And this is why that's not a blobby mess!

Conan Exiles details custom servers, mods, and rulesets

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Funcom announced today that it's teamed up with web hosting service Pingperfect both to host Conan Exiles' official servers for Funcom and to offer...

Line of Defense solidifies engine switch, B2P business model

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Derek Smart's Line of Defense is expecting a new public build later this month, this one focused on the next phase of defense mechanics...

Here’s how Star Citizen’s alien languages are being constructed from nothing

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"Don't waste your time learning Klingon, it ain't no use," Luna sang way back in 1996, but clearly, they had never met Britton Watkins,...

The Daily Grind: What’s your biggest MMORPG inventory pet peeve?

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I was surfing the Guild Wars 2 Reddit (because I'm a glutton for punishment) yesterday and bumped into a thread mocking some of the...
There was something beautiful and wonderful and it destroyed itself.

Massively Overthinking: Tab-target vs. action combat in MMORPGs

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Massively OP patron Duane is kicking the new year off right: with a brawl over combat types in MMOs. "Tab-target, action, or hybrid combat, for...

Elite: Dangerous updated powerplay in its big patch this week

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Elite: Dangerous' 2.2.03 patch rolled out yesterday to players on both PC and Xbox One. While it's primarily a large balancing and tweak patch,...

Here’s how Crowfall is tweaking resource harvesting for Big World

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Crowfall Design Lead Thomas "Blixtev" Blair has a new dev blog out this afternoon on the resource harvesting slice of the big world testing going...

Blade & Soul teases big anniversary event update for January 18

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Guess who's having a birthday this month? A lot of MMORPGs, actually, which is odd for a bleak month like January, but there it...

Shards Online’s always-on alpha is now live

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Citadel Studios' MMORPG Shards Online has formally launched its alpha today. "Alpha for a game like this means we’ve pretty much got all the...
IT'S FUN TO CHARTER AN ACCOUNTANT

Black Desert’s ship-faring Margoria expansion sails westward January 25

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You might have noticed that yesterday's wee Black Desert patch included a brief mention of Margoria preload content. That's because the naval-themed Margoria expansion...

EVE Online fixes latency bugs, will redeploy 119.1 Thursday

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Whatever stability problem CCP encountered with EVE Online's 119.1 patch that caused the studio to implement a rare rollback from yesterday's planned launch has...

DC Universe Online’s sixth anniversary events have arrived

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Daybreak's having a rough month, but the team working on DC Universe Online is indefatigable. Case in point: The game turns six years old...

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