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
The Daily Grind: What are the basic rules of conduct for an MMO community?
If there's one thing I've learned from 18 years of playing MMOs, it's that games train us to abide by some pretty weird codes...
MMO Week in Review: Blade & Soul’s westward journey (November 22, 2015)
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!
In...
Camelot Unchained reveals gloomy Spirit Mages and glam faces
Friday evening, Camelot Unchained revealed its eighth class triplet, the dark and sinister Spirit Mages:
The Slaughterwolf (Vikings): Summons and commands a pack of pissed-off...
Grab a Forsaken World ‘Aladdin Pack’ key from PWE and MOP
Wanna take a magic carpet ride in Forsaken World?
PWE has granted MOP keys for 50 100 Forsaken World Aladdin Packs to make that magic carpet ride...
The Daily Grind: What’s your worst MMO guild drama horror story?
Guild Wars 2's raiding guild drama earlier this week naturally made me think of guild drama I've experienced myself. I mean, if you've been...
Pick up a Perfect World International gift code and head to the War Front (All gone now!)
Perfect World International might be one of PWE's less-hypey MMOs here in the west, but it's still getting healthy updates that make it worth another...
Grab a key for Devilian’s closed beta 4 event, War for Nala
OARPG import Devilian's fourth beta event, War for Nala, kicks off tomorrow and runs all weekend. Wanna give it a go before ponying up for...
Paladins’ beta begins today; come get a key [All gone now!]
From announcement and demo to closed beta in four months: That's just how Hi-Rez's new shooter Paladins rolls.
Hi-Rez has granted MOP 500 keys for this...
Western Skyforge players have rolled 1.1M characters and over 12K guilds
The Skyforge devs have released a pair of infographics summarizing a data dump from an October snapshot of the game. What have we learned?...
The Daily Grind: Do secret classes and hidden content belong in MMOs?
If you ask old-school Star Wars Galaxies fans about the original implementation of Jedi in the classic version of the game, you're likely to get an earful...
Snag a Neverwinter Strongholds resource pack key for your Xbox One [All gone, thanks everyone!]
If you have an Xbox One and an Xbox Gold account, and you're reading here, you've probably checked out Neverwinter on your platform of...
MMO Week in Review: Bards bards bards (November 15, 2015)
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!
Everyone...
The MOP Up: TERA’s creepy cat mounts (November 15, 2015)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
WoW, FFXIV, RIFT, and GW2 players gather to mourn Paris
Final Fantasy XIV players and gamemasters on the Balmung server tonight gathered for a vigil to honor the victims of today's attacks in Paris. "Balmung...
Nexon had a good year in spite of its NCsoft disengagement
You might think Nexon would be smarting after selling off its NCsoft shares at a substantial loss in the wake of what was apparently...
Lineage II: ‘Classic hardcore is back’
Lineage IIÂ formally launched on Steam this week, complete with a fresh-start server, Zaken. There are even server firsts rewards, mostly pirate-themed goodies, for those...
The Daily Grind: Is an MMORPG still an MMORPG without gear progression?
A Massively OP commenter recently opined that "without gear progression, is a MOBA not an MMORPG," and I would really love to talk...
Massively Overthinking: Is IP-blocking in online games a necessary evil?
This past week, news about Black Desert's IP blocking has reminded me once again how IP-blocking, region-locking, and the resulting isolated MMO communities are...
Raise your own pet through ArcheAge’s Pawesome Autumn Adoption Festival
Beginning this weekend, you can participate in one of the more unusual MMORPG events we've seen in a while: ArcheAge's Pawesome Autumn Adoption Festival...
Venture capitalists pour $30M into CCP’s VR plans
If you were worried about the health of EVE Online studio CCP after its recent sale of White Wolf and its associated IP, well,...
