Justin Olivetti
Senior Reporter
A casual gamer and long-time MMO fan, Justin is often heard yelling, "Player housing for all!" in the Massively Overpowered offices. In addition to news, he tackles LOTRO Legendarium for LOTRO, The Perfect Ten, Jukebox Heroes, the retrospective Game Archaeologist series, One Shots, and the Massively OP podcast.
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LOTRO’s September is full of pirates, birthdays, and treasure bugans
September marks a pretty packed month of events for Lord of the Rings Online, starting with this weekend's Treasure Bugan hunt. Through September 18th,...
World of Warcraft whips the community into a frenzy over War Within delve hotfixes
World of Warcraft's newest feature currently is a hotbed of controversy, outrage, and confusion, as Blizzard attempted a series of hotfixes designed to bring...
The Daily Grind: Do you avoid MMO hype until it launches for real?
The cancellation of Blue Protocol, while not unforeseen, still stings. It seemed to have potential and was a pretty hefty new MMO in a...
ARPG Last Epoch shifts development priorities, delays its next content update to Q1 2025
Take whatever expectations you may have harbored for Last Epoch's next update and toss them out the window because this online ARPG is completely...
Global Chat: Star Trek Online’s content problem
As we kick off another edition of MMO gamer blogs talking about the titles that we love the most, we'll be visiting with Contains...
Throne and Liberty answers ‘top questions’ about its business model
While MMO fans continue to wait for the September 26th early access and October 1st launch for Throne and Liberty, NCsoft did address a...
Blade and Soul’s September update starts a new season pass and events
The September update for Blade and Soul hath arrived, bringing with it some modest events, fixes, and a new battle pass season.
Let's start with...
LOTRO previews its first Legacy of Morgoth expansion zone, Ambarûl
Lord of the Rings Online officially has begun promoting its fall expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, with a series of preview streams hosted by Senior...
Perfect Ten: The 10 crafting and gathering professions you find in every MMO
Despite the common perception that MMORPGs are only about smashing, slicing, and blasting foes to oblivion, these games typically offer a whole lot in...
Lost Ark releases the Behemoth raid and Chase the Storm event
September's big content drop for Lost Ark has arrived today, starting with an impressive 16-player raid against the Chaos Guardian Behemoth: "With a limited...
Sony’s dead team shooter Concord lives on in Amazon’s Secret Level anthology
It's been an exceptionally strange past month for fans of Sony's team-based FPS Concord. The title launched late August as a possible rival to...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs where basic fights take too long?
When you think about it, tuning combat encounters in MMOs has to be a fiendishly tricky business for devs. You can't make them overly...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 484: September MMO mailbag show
Justin and Bree dip into the mailbag to discuss MMO limitations, megaservers, studio dealbreakers, age accessibility, aggro, and offline MMO content, plus there's adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2.
Genshin Impact joins forces with McDonald’s in a new cross-promotion
You know you've made some sort of, er, impact as a video game if McDonald's is teaming up with you for a cross-promotion, so...
Blizzard teases an Overwatch 2 x World of Warcraft collaboration
In just a few days, Blizzard will reveal what will undoubtedly be an interesting collaboration between two of its most popular properties: Overwatch 2...
Tower of Fantasy teases next week’s update with secrets, bike rentals, and paper airplanes
An update is coming to anime-styled Tower of Fantasy next week, as the team's been teasing some of the features coming with Version 4.3...
LOTRO devs tease housing estate system, reveal a ‘SMITE-like’ project abandoned a decade ago
In a dev video this past week, Lord of the Rings Online's lead designer said that plans for that MMO in 2025 are "in...
Star Trek Online brings back its ‘historical museum’ for franchise’s birthday
Star Wars fans certainly know the importance of May the 4th, but did you know that there's a counterpart in the Star Trek fandom?...
The MOP Up: Albion Online patches Paths to Glory and talks up mounts
Albion Online's third patch for Paths to Glory came out last week, an update which "includes balance changes, Destiny Board improvements based on your...
World of Warcraft’s latest guide highlights how solo-friendly this MMO has become
Hopefully in 2024, there's not as much of a stigma for the player who wants to experience an MMORPG largely solo. World of Warcraft...
