Columns

Enjoy a run-down of our recent long-form pieces, both game-specific and more general. You might also be interested in our list of all of our columns and recurring articles. [Follow this category’s RSS feed]

Flameseeker Chronicles: 5 brilliant Guild Wars 2 YouTube content creators

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I often find that playing Guild Wars 2 leaves me with more questions than answers when it comes to lore and story predictions, build...
It's a house, you see.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward in review – side stories, part two

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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

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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

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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...
Well, it's something.

The Daily Grind: What option do you wish showed up in more MMO character creators?

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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

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The graveyard of Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak Game Company is certainly full enough to be considered a threat if there was ever a...
Skysagalanders.

Betawatch: SkySaga’s alpha is coming to a happy end (April 14, 2017)

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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

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Massively OP reader Suikoden wrote this great question to the podcast -- too good to let just Justin and me answer it. It's a...
REAP

Choose My Adventure: Learning to appreciate Black Desert

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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

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As Massively OP is centered on the "massively" part of gaming, it makes sense that my first guide to survival games was focused on...
Not the same.

The Daily Grind: Are MMOs in the same category as other video games for you?

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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...
This was a television show.

Perfect Ten: Conversations with anthropomorphic concepts of MMO studios

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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?

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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

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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...
Still in the dark.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward in review – side stories, part one

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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...
Someone's dropping a solo album, from the looks of it.

Choose My Adventure: Muddling through the start of Black Desert

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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...