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Massively OP Podcast Episode 508: Stars Reach fires up crowdfunding

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Justin and Bree discuss Stars Reach's Kickstarter, LOTRO's U43 and server transfers, Jake Song departing ArcheAge Chronicles, Dauntless' sunset, and Monster Hunter Wilds' debut, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Undermined, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on the Elder Scrolls Online difficulty situation.

MMO Week in Review: Stars Reach, Undermine(d), and BNS NEO

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You know how I know the MMO genre still has some juice? Because it was hard as heck to catch up with everything that...
Aw yeah.

WRUP: Hot singles in your area want to talk with you edition

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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about toast with wrong answers only.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 507: Get ‘er Dune

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW's Undermine(d), Dune Awakening's launch reveal, LOTRO and DDO 64-bit servers, Lost Ark Wild Soul, Blade and Soul NEO, Legends of Aria Classic's sunset, and the Project Gorgon vampirism patch, plus mailbag topics on non-combat PvP activities and comfort gaming.

MMO Week in Review: Dune Awakening dated, Blade & Soul Neo dawning

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The MMO genre is fixing to have an interesting spring, thanks to the arrival of Dune Awakening, which is finally rolling out on May...
So.

WRUP: Explaining a show called ‘Action Marmot’ through the decades edition

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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about movies we want to see this year...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 506: MMO housing, jet packs, and money

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW housing, Stars Reach's plans, Pantheon's weird controversy, Star Trek Online's Unveiled, Black Desert's flying mounts, and Q4 financial reports from Daybreak, NCsoft, Pearl Abyss, Square Enix, Kakao, and Nexon, plus adventures in LOTRO, Stars Reach, SWG Legends, LOTRO, WoW, and The Sims 4.

MMO Week in Review: Drowning in MMO financial reports

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Happy quarterly financials week! Aren't we having fun! We got numbers numbers numbers from a whole bunch of MMO companies this week, including Daybreak,...
Raccoon!

WRUP: Media where the protagonist is actually a horse but it’s a secret edition

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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about childhood fears we still have.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 505: Honoring MOP’s Independence Day

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Justin and Bree join MJ for a live recording of the 'cast during our Independence Day streamathon, discussing the origins of MOP, Kickstarter, formats over the years, covering the MMO industry, and our amazing community.

The Stream Team: MOP’s 10th anniversary Mo Mania celebration stream

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There has been many Mo Manias over the years, but there's only one 10th anniversary Mo Mania. This is the party of the decade...

Meta: Celebrate our Independence Day as MassivelyOP officially turns 10 years old

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It is time - time to celebrate the birth of Mo! It seems like just barely yesterday little Mo came on the scene, a...

MMO Week in Review: World of Warcraft is embracing time-tested MMO housing ideas

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This week in MMOs, Blizzard laid out a rough outline for World of Warcraft's proposed housing system, and while the blueprint so far doesn't...
This should be easier.

WRUP: The names I have given all of the forks in my apartment edition

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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about media we thought we'd hate but actually turned out to love.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 504: The legacy MMO devs leave behind

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Justin and Bree remember Project Gorgon's Sandra Powers, with discussion on EVE Online's roadmap, World of Warcraft's Undermine(d), No Man's Sky's and Worlds II, plus adventures in LOTRO, Project Gorgon, WoW Classic, and The Sims 4, and of course mailbag topics on removing and adding things to MMOs to make them better and identifying the major features MMOs just won't do.
Oh, I get it.

MMO Week in Review: Gorgon and Phoenix

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I would like to say this past week wasn't another bad one for the genre, but I'm just not that big a liar. Most...

Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2025?

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You know, you're not reading this piece until January, but I sat down to write it ahead of the turn of the year, when...
super

WRUP: Here are the descriptions of what happened when I tried to get an AI to write this edition

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No not really. It's a joke. Every WRUP is a joke! So join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about games and shows we fell out of love with.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 503: The Quinfail

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Justin and Bree discuss The Quinfall's messy early access, Camelot Unchained's worrisome future, New World's broken servers, and Throne and Liberty's server merge, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallout 76, WoW Classic, Guild Wars 2, and Playnite, plus a mailbag topic on what kind of MMO character template we have IRL.

MMO Week in Review: New World, Quinfall, and Unchained

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If this week in the MMORPG industry had a theme, it would be "things fall apart" or perhaps "oh no honey no." First, Unchained Entertainment...