Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV is ready to expand
There's a phrase that gets passed around my house frequently these days, and the phrase is "expansion mode." I have two characters locked into...
MMO Week in Review: Blizzard doesn’t want your money (May 24, 2015)
Too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMOÂ news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review!
Were you one...
Guild Chat: The layout, usage, and manners of voice chat
Welcome along to Guild Chat, my own wee place in the 'webs in which we can discuss all things guilds and club together to...
One Shots: My imaginary friends
Here's a fun thought: What if we aren't actually playing MMOs? What if we're just sitting in front of blank screens, creating fantasy worlds...
LOTRO Legendarium: Eight years, eight pictures, eight stories
I might be a little tardy in doing this, but every spring since I started to write about Lord of the Rings Online, I've...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s endgame dungeons, from launch to present
It's crazy to realize that Final Fantasy XIV has added more dungeons via patches in a year and a half than World of Warcraft has...
Leaderboard: AI vs. player competition
Monday's blurb about NCsoft and its AI research was sort of interesting, don't you think? The Korean firm isn't the first MMO company to...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Expanding into Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns
When Guild Wars 2's expansion was announced, most of the questions on our lips were permutations of "What's the new level cap?" and "What...
Tamriel Infinium: What we know about Elder Scrolls Online’s Imperial City
Even before the PC launch of the Elder Scrolls Online last year, there was something the community pined for: the Imperial City. In my first trip...
EVE Evolved: Building your own empire
When CCP announced its far-reaching plans to overhaul EVE Online's territorial warfare gameplay, players were cautiously optimistic but understandably guarded. EVE's old sovereignty system...
The Game Archaeologist: Multiplayer BattleTech
It was the 31st century, where feuding factions decided to settle their differences by throwing multi-ton war robots at each other. It was also...
WRUP: This game existed, no one cared edition
The above screenshot is from Fantasy Earth Zero, a title that was developed by Square-Enix, launched to a resounding thud, got resurrected by another...
Betawatch: May 15th, 2015
I'm not going to lie to you, dear readers: I don't care much about Star Citizen. I am aware, though, that the actual big news...
Quick tips for maximizing your GTA Online fun
I've been playing GTA Online for 50-something hours now, and while I'm by no means an expert, I'm a lot smarter about the game...
WoW Factor: A three million loss lesson
It's been a little while, hasn't it, friends? In the time since I last penned WoW Factor (which missed an installment purely due to...
EverQuesting: Life after Landmark’s big wipe
It was just over a week ago that Landmark's servers went offline in preparation for a major upheaval that affected nearly every system in...
Perfect Ten: Future MMOs that I can’t wait to play
I imagine that most of us have a future bucket list of MMOs that we wish would get here already. It wasn't but a...
Ask Mo: The trouble with roleplaying in MMORPGs
Long ago on Massively-that-was, a reader named Avaera sent in a long list of fabulous questions worth addressing. I'm tackling another in today's edition...
Jukebox Heroes: How Elite: Dangerous’ music put me into a mild coma
You know what gets me righteously angry? I shall tell you. I shall tell you, and then you shall share in my anger, you...
Tamriel Infinium: A guide to Elder Scrolls Online’s combat basics
I was looking back through some of my posts about the Elder Scrolls Online, and I noticed that I've mentioned combat quite a bit....
