Final Fantasy XI plans more solo play support in 2025 following its survey of the playerbase
The most recent adventurer survey for 22-year-old Final Fantasy XI got over 13,000 responses from players, and the development team has shared the results....
Helldivers 2 aspires to update so much that it effectively becomes Helldivers 3
At what point should a live service game stop updating its live service and move into a new title? If you're the guy behind...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive MMORPG right now at the top of 2025?
Your kneejerk answer to this morning's Daily Grind is probably going to be Star Citizen, and I get that urge. But in reality, most...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO goals and resolutions for 2025
Every year when we post this traditional Massively Overthinking roundtable, at least one person on staff dithers because not every one does "resolutions." We...
Ashes of Creation influencer flames out by making accusations Intrepid calls ‘false and defamatory’
Whenever YouTubers, content creators, or influencers decide to drop a game that they'd hitched their entire online brand to, it can often have a...
Black Desert observes seven days of mourning after Korean airline crash, postponing New Year’s events
One of the truly horrifying and sad events over the holidays happened when a South Korean airline crashed upon landing in Muan, killing 179...
The Daily Grind: What would you really like to be wrong about in the MMO space in 2025?
It was a late-arriving announcement in 2024 that The Elder Scrolls Online would blow up its content cadence and suddenly stop providing nearly as...
The Stream Team: Jumping blind into Path of Exile 2
What is this hype all about? Larry has no idea, so MJ invited Larry to try out Path of Exile 2. Larry agreed with...
The Stream Team: A new year means trying a new game with a friend in Marvel Rivals
It's 2025 and MOP's Chris is facing the all-new year with a new-to-him game: Marvel Rivals! While his twitch reaction shooter years are well...
The Daily Grind: How often (if ever) do you rebuild your MMO house?
If an MMORPG has a robust housing system, that probably means that you could take a long, long time in setting up the most...
Happy New Year to all the uplifting things in MMOs, 2024 edition
So last night, as is tradition, we posted our list of all the reasons we can't have nice things in MMOs and torched them...
Goodbye to all the reasons we can’t have nice things in MMOs, 2024 edition
Listen, I'm not going to pretend 2024 was great. It wasn't great in the real world, and it wasn't great in the games industry...
Choose My Adventure: All of the MMOs you made us play in 2024
This past year was full of ups and downs. You could arguably say that about any year, sure, but I felt it much more...
NetEase shooter FragPunk is officially launching on March 6 in 2025, pew pew
Maybe the real punks were the ones we fragged along the way. If you've lost track of the various games promising a punking good...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the brightest future heading into 2025?
Consider this end-of-the-year Daily Grind a sort of hopeful counterpart to the "stormiest future" fauxward, as instead of talking about the MMOs we're worried...
Lord of the Rings Online explains why it announced the new 64-bit servers early without all the details
The recent furor over Lord of the Rings Online's surprise -- and partial -- announcement that new 64-bit servers are coming to the game...
The Daily Grind: Will you Kickstart any MMOs in 2025?
It's actually been several years since we had a pure MMORPG blow up on Kickstarter, but we've certainly seen survival sandboxes and mini-MMOs do...
The Stream Team: Closing out a year of Final Fantasy XIV adventuring
It's nearly the end of 2024, and MOP's Chris and his Eorzea Sunday crew have been goofing around together in Final Fantasy XIV for...
The great and majestic One Shots Awards of 2024
Forget all of those other Massively OP awards you've seen cross your desktop for the past few weeks -- we all know that there's only...
The Daily Grind: What do you do after you accomplish a goal in an MMORPG?
The thing about MMORPGs is that they are a constantly ongoing journey, and whenever you accomplish one thing... well, there's another thing to do....
