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]

Massively Overthinking: The ideal MMO server setup

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Over the last year, we've seen multiple major MMO and expansion launches, and most of them went awry in some way or another. Final...

Desert Oasis: ‘Jumping’ into Black Desert’s new Drakania class

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Everything gets better when a dragon knight is involved as far as I'm concerned. Kain Highwind made Final Fantasy IV the single best Final...
Space tourist. SPACE TOURIST.

Vague Patch Notes: Stop giving rich people money to make failed MMOs

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Richard Garriott has been to space. I'm going to repeat that a lot for emphasis, just because I feel like it's important. Richard Garriott...
And we will call it... this land!

The Daily Grind: Has any MMO company reached the point where you’ll never give it money again?

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Oh, Blizzard. You have some gigantic damn problems right now, and let's face it, I am definitely not going to give you money at...
Zone!

Perfect Ten: Top 10 favorite Final Fantasy XIV zones

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We're getting in the zone with Perfect Ten lately. A few weeks back, Justin posted his own personal ranking of World of Warcraft zones....

Choose My Adventure: The quest for big punchy gloves in Albion Online

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I don’t know whether I was just hungry for a positive experience after last month’s series, I came to this game with a newfound...

Tales from the Holodeck: Virtual reality is best as a gaming machine, not as a portal to the metaverse

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Welcome to a new column here on MassivelyOP! Tales from the Holodeck was inspired by a couple of things: my purchase of a VR...
Voyage onward.

Wisdom of Nym: Highlights from Final Fantasy XIV’s preliminary patch notes

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Wait, you get a double column today? Yes indeed you do! This is good news for those of you who like to read about...
Voyage onward.

Wisdom of Nym: Breaking down the extensive changes to jobs in Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 6.1

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First things first: I'm going to be writing this column in something of a whirlwind. It would have been nice if we had gotten...

Interview: Lost Ark’s regional parity, genderlocking, and the Amazon-Smilegate collaboration

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A few days before the western release of Lost Ark, we posed questions to the Amazon Games team, and franchise lead Soomin Park was...

One Shots: Surfing the world tree

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When the day arrives when a magic bee flies into your mouth and turns you immortal and sends you down into the world tree...

LOTRO Legendarium: Six reasons why LOTRO’s Beorning is amazing

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When Update 33 arrives later this month, Lord of the Rings Online players will have access to a slew of classes and races that...
Not factored.

Betawatch: Fractured Online’s closed beta has launched

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Mm, who doesn't like some good old-fashioned traditional closed beta testing? It tastes like nostalgia and actual progress toward launch. And also just a hint...
Faces and offs.

Vague Patch Notes: When MMOs pit their playerbase against itself

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Today's Vague Patch Notes is about something weird that I feel like someone should definitely done something about a long time before now. It's...

Massively Overthinking: Which MMO suffers from the most useless housing system?

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A few weeks ago, I was showing my seven-year-old around Villagers and Heroes, and she wanted to get herself a house. I warned her...
Yeah, this is a thing.

WoW Factor: So let’s talk about World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight leak

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Sometimes you just get handed a column, you know? No, you probably don't; you probably don't work in this insane profession. The point is that...

Fight or Kite: Classic Robocraft is a mashup of a Minecraftian block-builder and arena brawler

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Robocraft - now there's a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Back in those days, we played things fast and loose. You...
Zangriest marsh.

Perfect Ten: Top 10 favorite World of Warcraft zones by feels

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Recently on the MassivelyOP podcast, we were asked by a listener about our favorite MMO zones. That discussion quickly morphed into selecting certain zones...

MassivelyOP’s guide to 13 MMORPGs that you can play on Macs

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Until I got my first Macbook this past December, I admit that I never really paid attention to what MMOs could be played on...

Massively Uplifting: How gamers are bringing humanitarian relief to Ukraine

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It was a month that started in love but ended with war: Terrible, painful things keep happening in the world and in our communities....

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