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]

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior changes aren’t bad

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It's been two weeks since I visited Star Wars: The Old Republic in this column, and it's clear that two weeks is far too long...

Sword and Bored: Player housing

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Mo is introduced to MMO player housing... and why some people find it frustrating.
Build.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s crafting and gathering endgame in Heavensward

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Crafting and gathering has never been a primary goal of mine in Final Fantasy XIV so much as a secondary one. It's something extra...

EVE Evolved: The war for Providence

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In the previous edition of EVE Evolved, I looked at how the state of PvP in EVE Online has changed since the Aegis Sovereignty...

The MOP Up: Blizzard belongs in a museum!

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we're deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

The Game Archaeologist: Lucasfilm’s Habitat

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Some of you reading this may simply never have known a world before the internet existed by virtue of your age. It's not your...
There's a thing with this game and redheads, huh?

Betawatch: September 4th, 2015

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The pre-alpha testing for Crowfall has started, which is really great even if it's mostly just people beating the snot out of one another...

Stick and Rudder: Star Citizen is starting to come together

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Last Tuesday I woke in the wee hours of the morning to install Star Citizen's 1.2 patch. I wasn't battling insomnia or anything like that; on the...

Massively Overthinking: Building your dream MMORPG

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Massively OP Kickstarter donor xenaphex wants to hear about our dream MMOs. What really makes you tick? What would you build with a million-bajillion...

EverQuesting: A guide to EverQuest II’s city festivals

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It's that time of the month again -- a glorious time that I look forward to and makes me cackle with glee just a...
We fought a bear.

Perfect Ten: The 10 MMO memories we all have

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I have been playing MMOs with varying degrees of intensity for the past 12 years. That is really weird to me. It also means that...

Choose My Adventure: Setting up Camp in Trove

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Welcome, friends, to another episode of Choose My Adventure: Trove edition. Last week, as you may recall, I took my first steps in the...

Jukebox Heroes: My top six favorite MMO soundtracks of all time

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In ranking MMO soundtracks, there are a lot of ways to do it. You can pull out individual tracks or praise a game for...
Ninja by mechanics, not by occupation.

Wisdom of Nym: The state of Final Fantasy XIV’s melee DPS

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I main melee DPS on my main character in Final Fantasy XIV, but it was never really by design. Originally I was quite happy...
Some elves have no eyes any more. Be sensitive.

WoW Factor: Wild guessing about Demon Hunters

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So what's the deal with World of Warcraft's Demon Hunter? We just don't know yet. But the space to speculate is pretty awesome. I mentioned...

The MOP Up: Another stab at Game of Thrones

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we're deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Guild Chat: Finding MMO fun without your guildmates

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Good news, everyone: I'm back with an unexpected edition of Guild Chat for you! Observant Massively Overpowered readers might have noticed that I rotate...

One Shots: Pin-up calendar

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Here's an interesting idea: using screenshots to make a calendar! Reader Elana was part of a team that did just that in The Secret World:...

Nexus Telegraph: Five ways to get ready for WildStar’s F2P

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WildStar's free-to-play transition -- with the accompanying massive feature patch -- hasn't gotten a set date yet, but with the update in closed beta...
Let's make this happen.

Betawatch: August 28th, 2015

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Project Gorgon's latest run on Kickstarter is over, and it was a pretty big success for the title, hitting almost $75,000 in funding. That...