Flameseeker Chronicles: 5 brilliant Guild Wars 2 YouTube content creators
I often find that playing Guild Wars 2 leaves me with more questions than answers when it comes to lore and story predictions, build...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward in review – side stories, part two
Boy, I will be really miffed if this winds up taking more time than I have until Final Fantasy XIV's second expansion arrives. I...
EVE Evolved: Video highlights from EVE Fanfest 2017
For a few days each year, hundreds of EVE Online players from across the world flock to a frozen volcanic rock at the top of the world for...
One Shots: Screenshots big enough to wallpaper your house
Obviously due to column width limitations, we have a fixed pixel size for screenshots here at Massively OP. But that doesn't stop some of...
The Daily Grind: What option do you wish showed up in more MMO character creators?
There are a number of issues that I have with the character creator for Black Desert, but I greatly enjoy and appreciate the fact...
The Game Archaeologist: SOE’s The Agency
The graveyard of Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak Game Company is certainly full enough to be considered a threat if there was ever a...
Betawatch: SkySaga’s alpha is coming to a happy end (April 14, 2017)
It's very rare that this job allows us to use the terms "shutdown" and "good" in the same sentence, but the upcoming alpha shutdown...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs, from hardcore to casual and back again
Massively OP reader Suikoden wrote this great question to the podcast -- too good to let just Justin and me answer it. It's a...
Choose My Adventure: Learning to appreciate Black Desert
First and foremost, I'd like to thank the many people who informed me about how to hide the UI in Black Desert. I shouldn't...
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to survival games, single-player and beyond
As Massively OP is centered on the "massively" part of gaming, it makes sense that my first guide to survival games was focused on...
The Daily Grind: Are MMOs in the same category as other video games for you?
The funny thing about MMOs is that while they're very obviously video games, they're not really in the same wheelhouse as single-player games. They're...
Perfect Ten: Conversations with anthropomorphic concepts of MMO studios
Every so often, a man needs to have a conversation with some anthropomorphized concepts. I do that every few years. In the past, I've...
Tamriel Infinium: Am I playing Elder Scrolls Online wrong?
Elder Scrolls Online and I have had an on-again-off-again relationship for the last several years. A lot of that relationship stemmed from my being...
Jukebox Heroes: Your top six favorite MMO music themes
After over a month of voting and counting down, we've arrived at the final six picks for your favorite MMORPG theme songs of all...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward in review – side stories, part one
Here's a fun fact: I don't actually know how long this series of columns is going to be at this point. That shouldn't affect...
LOTRO Legendarium: Playing second fiddle to the Fellowship
Back when Lord of the Rings Online was being developed as Middle-earth Online in the late 1990s, the original concept was to plop players...
Guild Chat: Should I quit my MMO because of in-guild bullying?
Welcome along to another advice-filled edition of Guild Chat, the column through which the Massively OP community can both offer pearls of wisdom to...
One Shots: Eight-bit vista
One of my favorite MMO April Fools of all time is Guild Wars 2's playable Super Adventure Box. It's so brilliantly designed and executed...
The Survivalist: ARK’s big bird nerf
I know I said part two of the survival guide, containing a host of single-player survival games, would be the next entry in this...
Choose My Adventure: Muddling through the start of Black Desert
After my first week of playing, I don't know if I actually like Black Desert very much. I also don't know entirely if it's...