Vague Patch Notes: No, MMO lore does not excuse design decisions
There are a lot of problems with how people tend to use lore when it comes to MMOs. I've talked about one side of...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the loneliest one to play?
Social interactions are an important part of MMOs, but not every single MMO is hopping with players at all times. Sometimes you're alone, like...
Tamriel Infinium: My favorite things in The Elder Scrolls Online
If you’ve been following the Tamriel Infinium column at least since my own arrival at Massively OP, you may have noticed my propensity for...
Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020
There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...
Choose My Adventure: Black Desert Mobile is absolutely crammed with stuff
This first-ever edition of Choose My Portable Adventure was more hotly contested than I was expecting. By the narrowest of margins – six votes,...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Things to do when Guild Wars 2 feels stale
It happens to every player in every MMO: Sooner or later, even our favorite games start to feel stale. It may be that you’re...
Massively Uplifting: Gaming studios and communities support kids, trees, cats, STEM, and gaming grandparents
While there are understandably many reasons folks may not want to look back on 2019 fondly, the year wasn't all bad. Massively Uplifting has...
Wisdom of Nym: The lore deep cuts we know of in Final Fantasy XIV’s next patch
There's lots of lore to unpack in Final Fantasy XIV. Seriously, I could write a lot about it because the game sets up lots of...
Not So Massively: Lessons Torchlight Frontiers can take from its predecessors
Torchlight Frontiers is a game I've gradually been developing some genuine hype for - as has our team here at MOP, in light of...
Jukebox Heroes: The best of Otherland’s soundtrack
Despite being an adaption of Tad Williams' enormously popular sci-fi novels, the MMO Otherland was a flop in both of its incarnations. Mismanaged, underdeveloped,...
One Shots: Unlicensed fantasy motorists
I've been saying it for years, but just because these are fictional virtual worlds doesn't mean that MMOs should be free from regulations and...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are you curious to see move forward in 2020?
It's not exactly going to surprise anyone that a lot of my MMO time in 2020 has been devoted to Final Fantasy XIV, especially...
Into the Super-verse: What superhero MMOs offer that other games don’t
When I was in high school, the Console Wars were heating up between SEGA and Nintendo. I'm afraid to report that many of my...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2019
The good news is that our sunsetted MMO list from 2019 is shorter than in most years. The bad news, of course, is that...
Storyboard: The future of MMO roleplaying in the new decade
Here we are in a brand-new decade! (If you feel the urge to pedantically correct this, you are wrong, it's a new decade, hush...
Desert Oasis: Fun things to do in Black Desert in 2020
With the new decade upon us, I think it's a good time to do some goal-setting for the upcoming decade. I might be biased...
Vague Patch Notes: How to make your corner of the MMO space more pleasant
It's 2020, people - let's do this. What do I mean by this? Unscrew our MMO living space. That one's a lot more fun...
The Daily Grind: What gaming lessons from 2019 are you bringing forward in the new year?
We're into 2020 now, and that means it's the year of hindsight. (That is also the last time I'm allowed to make that joke, so...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2019
The down side of doing these columns at the end of the year every year is that there's a certain challenge of writing the...
Lawful Neutral: A look back at the MMO industry’s law dramas of 2019
It's hard to believe that 2019 is almost over. Not necessarily unwelcome, but hard to believe. 2019 has been a year in more ways...
