WoW Factor: The fate of WoW’s class orders post-Legion, part 1
In the lull between expansions, I've been hard at work bringing my alts up to the level cap, unlocking all of the class mounts,...
Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends in review
Earlier this year, when we had yet to actually get much information about Secret World Legends, I posted a piece in which I discussed...
The Daily Grind: What quality-of-life features matter most to you in an MMORPG?
There are a lot of missing features that I can deal with in Final Fantasy XI because the game was designed for a controller...
Tamriel Infinium: Our 2017 report card for Elder Scrolls Online
All in all, 2017 has been a fabulous year for the Elder Scrolls Online, and although I have been light on talking about the...
Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018
It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Hall of Chains raid wing first impressions
I promised you at the end of last week's rundown of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living World season's launch episode that I'd return this week...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s 2017 in review
It's hard to say whether 2017 was a good year for Final Fantasy XIV.
Sure, on one level it seems obvious. The game launched its...
EVE Evolved: Calling time on EVE Online’s five-year vision
When Andie "CCP Seagull" Nordgren walked onto the stage at EVE Fanfest 2013 and delivered her long-term vision for the future of EVE Online,...
One Shots: Boy band cover art
It's one thing to strike a pose and get a good-looking selfie in there, it's another to coordinate a whole group of twitchy gamers...
The Daily Grind: What’s your latest MMO achievement?
Achievements in MMOs are a nice way of marking off things that you've done, but there are no achievements for personal goals. You do...
LOTRO Legendarium: Fixing Lord of the Rings Online’s grouping problem
One of the quirks -- and frustrations -- of MMORPGs is that there never seems to be one game that truly has it all....
Betawatch: There’s factions in them there hills of Wild West Online (December 8, 2017)
Let's start with something that you probably already ascertained: Wild West Online is being delayed. It delayed its early access alpha, and that delay...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping things up in Secret World Legends
One of the things that I promised way back when I started writing this series about Secret World Legends was to mention the way...
WoW Factor: Reconsidering the next few months of World of Warcraft
There's a lot of information coming out about patch 7.3.5 at this point. Not everything, of course, and a lot of it is based...
Chaos Theory: Exploring Secret World Legend’s anima allocation and other QoL improvements
Remember that big quality-of-life update that Secret World Legends launched mid-November? Chances are your quality of SWL life did indeed improve with a number...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR, it’s time to destroy the Eternal Empire
Those players who were looking for consequence in their Star Wars: The Old Republic storyline can, I'm glad to say, look to Knights of...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest break you’ve taken from an MMO?
When World of Warcraft: Cataclysm launched, I was playing. It wasn't too much longer after that when I was not. And I never really...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s living world S4 Daybreak
I'm back with an earlier-than-anticipated special edition of Flameseeker Chronicles to share my impressions of the opening episode of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living World...
Jukebox Heroes: Kritika Online’s soundtrack
It's kind of a sad commentary on 2017 that Kritika Online is one of the most significant MMORPGs to launch during the calendar year....
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on the next few years of Final Fantasy XIV expansions
My friends, I can see the future for Final Fantasy XIV. And by "see" I mean that I can guess at it with reasonable...
