MMO Year in Review: City of Heroes comes home (January 2024)
Since the year we went independent as MassivelyOP, we've been taking time at the end of the year to recap every month as a...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Golden Yachties: MMO most likely to distract you in traffic
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the MMO most likely to distract you in traffic. The Golden Yachties series is...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best MMO Business Model
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best MMO Business Model, which was awarded to Final Fantasy XIV last...
MMO Week in Review: The end of Elder Scrolls Online’s expanshachapters
Elder Scrolls Online stunned - even panicked - many MMO players this week with the revelation that it's cutting its cadence back and canceling...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Golden Yachties: Best worst MMO chart
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the Best worst MMO chart. The Golden Yachties series is our run of fauxwards,...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best PvP MMO
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best PvP MMO, which was awarded to Albion Online last year. We halted...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Golden Yachties: Best MMO critter
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the Best MMO critter. The Golden Yachties series is our run of fauxwards, named...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: MMO with the Stormiest Future
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the MMO with the Stormiest Future, which was awarded to Pantheon: Rise of...
WRUP: Apparently these are the rules of the card game Mao edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about what we're getting (or hoping to get) for Christmas and related holidays.
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Golden Yachties: Best worst way to die in an MMORPG
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards kick off today with our award for the Worst way to die in an MMORPG. Yes, it's time once again...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the MMO Studio of the Year, which was awarded to Standing Stone Games...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Biggest MMO Disappointment
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Disappointment, which was awarded to Digital Extremes abandoning Wayfinder last year....
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best New MMO Class
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best New MMO Class, which was awarded to Elder Scrolls Online's Arcanist...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play
Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best MMO Trend
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best MMO Trend, which was awarded to the silver lining of MMO...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Biggest MMO Blunder
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Blunder, which was awarded to Overwatch's MMO-esque-PvE bungle. (Yes, we...
MMO Week in Review: Pantheon’s early access, Elder Scrolls Online’s union
An "overwhelming majority of video game workers" at Elder Scrolls Online's ZeniMax Online Studios formally unionized this week, becoming the third union at Microsoft's...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Most Improved MMO
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Most Improved MMO, which was awarded to World of Warcraft Retail last...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best MMO Rogue Server
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best MMO Rogue Server, which was awarded to Warhammer Online: Return of...