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The Daily Grind: Which game or studio made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2024?

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So here's another fun annual Daily Grind that always gets people good and angry. And believe it or not, I'm not going to nominate...

One Shots: Pretty please give me those pretty spaceships

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It's a new year of community screenshots here at One Shots Incorporated (that's right, we're now a soulless corporation with algorithms and AI and...
No pretty for you

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the worst about requiring you to wait?

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Time-gating is a practice done throughout the MMO space for a variety of reasons, ranging from giving players with less time to play at...

MMO Hype Train: Pantheon Rise of the Fallen was not ready for early access

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It's absolutely surreal to see that, despite the odds against it, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen actually released -- albeit in early access --...
I'm fine. We're fine. This is fine. Everything's fine like wine.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation drama, Corepunk impressions

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The past couple of weeks have seen two back-to-back holidays, so there wasn't as much beta news as you might have expected, but there...
Duo!

Warframe of Mind: Here is how to actually get started in Warframe

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Warframe has one of the best tutorial setups of all time. Seriously. The first mission is great, and it immediately throws you into a...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive MMORPG right now at the top of 2025?

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Your kneejerk answer to this morning's Daily Grind is probably going to be Star Citizen, and I get that urge. But in reality, most...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO goals and resolutions for 2025

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Every year when we post this traditional Massively Overthinking roundtable, at least one person on staff dithers because not every one does "resolutions." We...
Here we are again.

End-of-year Eleven: The best value MMOs at the top of 2025

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So here we are again, at the transition for another year, and let me tell you that I am glad this column went a...

First Impressions: Corepunk offers equal parts charm and tedium

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Corepunk's a game I've had on my radar for many years. It's suffered through many delays as its then-Ukrainian-based developers faced a level of...
Not cool!

Vague Patch Notes: How Throne and Liberty actually got my attention

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Leading up to the release of Throne and Liberty, I was not particularly enthusiastic about the game's prospects on a whole. The reasons for...
Not so golden any more.

The Daily Grind: What would you really like to be wrong about in the MMO space in 2025?

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It was a late-arriving announcement in 2024 that The Elder Scrolls Online would blow up its content cadence and suddenly stop providing nearly as...

Choose My Adventure: All of the MMOs you made us play in 2024

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This past year was full of ups and downs. You could arguably say that about any year, sure, but I felt it much more...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the brightest future heading into 2025?

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Consider this end-of-the-year Daily Grind a sort of hopeful counterpart to the "stormiest future" fauxward, as instead of talking about the MMOs we're worried...
Aw yeah.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s Summoner has always been a problem

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Over the course of Final Fantasy XIV's run, we have encountered a lot of primals. There are the seven who       are fought...

The Daily Grind: Will you Kickstart any MMOs in 2025?

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It's actually been several years since we had a pure MMORPG blow up on Kickstarter, but we've certainly seen survival sandboxes and mini-MMOs do...

Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s January dough

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Pokemon Go's Dual Destiny season continues in January, and Niantic's starting the year with some new(ish) pokemon it's teasing. Some are genuinely new, like Fidough,...

The great and majestic One Shots Awards of 2024

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Forget all of those other Massively OP awards you've seen cross your desktop for the past few weeks -- we all know that there's only...
At the end of one journey...

The Daily Grind: What do you do after you accomplish a goal in an MMORPG?

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The thing about MMORPGs is that they are a constantly ongoing journey, and whenever you accomplish one thing... well, there's another thing to do....

Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2024

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Welcome to a Very Special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where - most weeks - we keep track of the...