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MMO Week in Review: Merrily migrating to Morrowind (February 5, 2017)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! This...
COMMENTS MAKE ME MAAAAAAD

WRUP: New comment system fun fact edition

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So we have a new comment system! Yes, really. There's a little FAQ about it explaining everything you could want to know, but what...
Oh jeez.

Recapping the Asheron’s Call sunsets

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Just before Christmas, we learned the sad news that Turbine would not be transferring Asheron's Call and its revivified sequel to Standing Stone as...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most notable copycat MMORPG of all time?

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A few weeks ago, I logged into Lord of the Rings Online for the first time in what I think is a few years....
Worlds Adrift

Massively Overthinking: Breaking your immersions in MMORPGs

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Veteran MOP reader and tipster Nordavind is going to break your immersions. Just kidding. He does have a question for us all on that...

Enter to win a Star Trek Online Tier 6 Elachi Ornash Battlecruiser from PWE and MOP

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In honor of the launch of Star Trek Online's season 12 Reckoning, PWE has granted Massively OP five Tier 6 Elachi Ornash Battlecruisers to raffle to...

Massively OP comment system switchover FAQ

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02/03/2017 - We have now completed the first big step of switching over to our brand-new comment system. It's all still under construction, but it does...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 102: Sailing into the future

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Justin and Larry discuss LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, SWTOR, Star Trek Online, Asheron's Call, H1Z1, Black Desert, and Guild Wars 2, with a special Bree monologue about the new comment system.
Where you at, ArenaNet?

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best music system?

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In Andrew's retrospective of Asheron's Call 2 last week, he mentioned that the game had a music system, something I'd long since forgotten, if...

The Daily Grind: What’s your biggest pet peeve about MMORPG comment sections?

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Say farewell to Livefyre, folks: Later this week, Massively OP will be migrating to a new comment system. It's not entirely of our own...

MMO Week in Review: On the eve of Conan Exiles (January 29, 2017)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! This...
He seems nice.

WRUP: Before we’re edited edition

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You read our articles every day. Most days, anyway. Why don't you read our articles every day? Are we just some fling to you? Ahem....
doot doot doot, this game's title

Betawatch: A city of City of Heroes successors (January 27, 2017)

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The loss of City of Heroes brought motivated fans together to rebuild it, or at least to create a spiritual successor to the game....

The Daily Grind: Will Turbine announce something big for Asheron’s Call next week?

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Asheron's Call is sunsetting next week -- that much we know. But beyond that, we don't know a whole lot about the rushed circumstances...

Massively Overthinking: Death and dying in MMORPGs

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In March of last year, MOP's Justin wrote a detailed guide to the most common death penalties in MMORPGs. Last September, Gamasutra pulled seven...

EverQuesting: Scoring our EverQuest franchise 2016 predictions

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January 14th, 2016. On that date, I said we'd get to look back in a year and see just how many of my EverQuesting...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 101: Marvelous heroes

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, Marvel Heroes, Trove, Elder Scrolls Online, WoW, Wizards of the Coast, and Path of Exile, with mailbag questions on Standing Stone/Daybreak and MOP's allies.
Throw wide the gates to let us pass once more.

The Daily Grind: Have you ever participated in a protest in an MMORPG?

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Protests in the real world dominated this past weekend's news, and while I surfed around for an in-game equivalent to cover, I couldn't find...

MMO Week in Review: A new race for LOTRO (January 22, 2017)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! The...
Everything old is... still old, but a newer sort of old.

The Daily Grind: Is there any MMORPG slang that you just do not get?

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A funny thread on the MMORPG subreddit last week reminded me that gaming slang is anything but obvious. "I just now realized that OOM means...

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