Justin Olivetti

Justin Olivetti
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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.

Personal blog: BioBreak
Twitter: @sypster
That may have been too fast.

Wild West Online cancels Kickstarter and early access plans, secures funding for a full launch

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Remember all of those plans that Wild West Online had for a Kickstarter campaign this month and a Steam early access release? Well, plans...
Darn it, if you had just kept her hair brown...

The Daily Grind: What makes an MMO community toxic?

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I sincerely do not envy the task of MMO studios and community managers when it comes to wrangling their crowd of diverse, fickle, and...

Osiris: New Dawn adds flares, talks weather patterns

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So what about that weather we're having in Osiris: New Dawn? OK, it's unlikely that anyone will actually utter that as a conversation starter,...

Project Genom adds day/night cycle, says longest programming tasks are almost done

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"The longest and the most difficult programming tasks are almost completed," crowed the team over at Project Genom. In this week's newsletter, the sandbox's...

Star Trek Online brings Season 13 to consoles next month, teases T6 light cruisers

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Cryptic's console crowd must know by know that it takes a month, give or take, for a PC update to make its way over to...
And we shoot the varmint.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 117: Starfall no more

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On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin is joined by MJ to chit-chat about The Secret World (Legends), ESO Morrowind, TERA, RIFT, Wild West Online, Guild Wars 2, ARK, Conan Exiles, EverQuest II, Warframe, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs, F2P MMO recommendations, and our old Marvel Heroes guild.

E3 is completely sold out to the public

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If for whatever reason you had a burning desire to attend this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, here's hoping you already purchased a ticket or...
just come back

World of Warcraft PvP offers tempting prestige rewards, Christie Golden joins Blizzard

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Grind. The grind never ends. Just when you think you've capped your honor levels in World of Warcraft's PvP, you discover that there is...
It's jail time.

TERA features bonus dungeon loot for the next week

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What's the best part of dungeons? Is it the shared social experience of fighting incredible odds? The bizarre visuals? The unlikely and very lonely...

Order and Chaos asks gamer moms for their stories

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Order and Chaos, everyone's default generic mobile MMO suggestion since 2011, became surprisingly vocal following this past Sunday's Mother's Day. Gameloft took the time to...

Shroud of the Avatar works on endgame storyline

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Will Shroud of the Avatar finish fleshing out its main storyline in time for this summer's official release? It might be a photo finish,...

Skara stages a fight on a mountaintop

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When you think of locales for epic showdowns, what do you picture? The Tonys? The prairie grasslands of Nebraska? Tenth street in the Bronx?...
There's not a whole lot of blood coming out of this stone.

The next era of Kickstarter may be starting

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Is Kickstarter dead? With Ashes of Creation's incredible success this spring and several other MMO projects still attempting at drawing in that sweet crowdfunding...

Paragon enters a new ‘Phase’ with its latest update

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If it's a fictional girl with purple hair, you just know you're in for some carefully supervised rebelliousness and attitude! Last week, Paragon introduced...

Ashes of Creation answers questions on progression, music, and (setting) forest fires

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Remember kids, only devs can prevent virtual forest fires! And it's probably a good thing that they do because apparently there are some Ashes...
Big time.

EVE Online players blow up a $6,000 spaceship

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Ever have the dark desire to see $6,000 get obliterated right before your very eyes? A coordinated team of EVE Online players baited a Vanquisher...

The MOP Up: Life is Feudal’s building sim (May 14, 2017)

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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...
Chairs

Identity announces SpatialOS integration, delays town square module

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It's time to play catch-up on another interesting indie MMORPG, Identity. You may remember this as the contemporary life simulator sandbox that has raised...

One Shots: MMOs are serious business

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As we all well know, MMORPGs are a Serious Business indeed. We must treat them reverently and with our utmost due diligence as we...

Ashes of Creation meets Underrealm stretch goal, eyes $2M in crowdfunding

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With well over two weeks to go in its Kickstarter campaign, Ashes of Creation has already outpaced similar efforts from Chronicles of Elyria ($1.36M...

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