Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail media tour: Ranged, magical, and healing job abilities in Dawntrail
To start things off, I am going to basically restate what I did in my last column about Final Fantasy XIV's existing jobs heading...
Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail media tour: Tank and melee DPS job abilities in Dawntrail
Here's the good news and the bad news for folks going into Dawntrail: If you like how your existing job plays in Final Fantasy...
Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail media tour: Hands-on with the Pictomancer and Viper
It's Stormblood all over again when it comes to Dawntrail because Final Fantasy XIV has once again handed us a new melee job and a...
Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail media tour: MassivelyOP’s coverage begins now
MOP's Eliot attended the Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail Media Tour back in May. We've got half a dozen articles prepared for you all today, but we're kicking everything off with an explainer for how it works and what MMORPG gamers need to keep in mind when reading. Enjoy!
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons World of Warcraft is pure cozy comfort
There's something weird and fun that happens in my brain around this time of year, which is that I start to get into a...
Choose My Adventure: Returning to Star Citizen (and fussing with tech)
It's been a long while since I got to hop into Star Citizen. Not for a lack of desire, but mostly for a lack...
Second Wind: World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight story dragonflies right off a cliff
We come now to the third part of our four-part Second Wind series on revisiting World of Warcraft after quitting at the end of...
The Daily Grind: What part of MMO design seems much easier to MMO players than it really is?
A while back, I saw someone make an offhand comment about how to save New World. According to this commenter (no names, not dunking),...
Wisdom of Nym: No new crafting or gathering in Final Fantasy XIV
Every new expansion for Final Fantasy XIV has increased the total number of jobs available for players, although the exact numbers have varied from...
The Daily Grind: Ships, mounts, or vehicles – do you have a preferred mount type in MMOs?
MOP's own Chris inspired today's Daily Grind as last week he was drooling all over the newly revealed Elite Dangerous spaceship. "Seeing this new...
LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring Lord of the Rings Online’s enormous new Neaths zone
Do you remember when you were a kid and you got to poke around and explore a cool place? You'd eagerly run around it,...
One Shots: Stargazing for incoming asteroids
Now that you've got the Jurassic Park hymn playing in your head from today's headline picture, you're prepared to romp around with dinos, stick...
The Daily Grind: How much does the metagame influence your MMO picks?
A lot of people like to lie to themselves and say that the metagame in a given MMO does not influence any choices they...
Betawatch: Tencent’s Tarisland eyes its June release
Have you come for adventures in yonder land of Taris? Wait, I haven't actually been involved in the various tests; does Tarisland actually feature...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO enters its Shared Skies season without sharing much info
We're entering the summer season in Pokemon Go, and this one is called Shared Skies. If you ignore the repeat info from the upcoming...
Vague Patch Notes: Why do so many MMOs fail?
We talk a lot about MMOs that fail here on Massively Overpowered. I wrote a whole column about how our standards of success are...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst whaling in a multiplayer game you’ve seen in the last year?
This week, mainstream MOBA gamers flipped alllll the tables over Riot Games' gambit to sell a $450 League of Legends cosmetics bundle themed around...
Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in MMORPGs?
This past weekend, MMO designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe...
Wisdom of Nym: Hands-on with the Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG Starter Set
On some level, the Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG Starter Set was very much a product conceived and released to gauge interest. I don't need...
Casually Classic: Three questions I have for WoW Classic’s probable Pandaria
Oh hey, Cataclysm Classic is here. You can absolutely sense the palpable excitement and community buzz over it, much the same way you can...
