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WRUP: The Realistic New Year’s Resolution 2024 product guide edition

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Six Weeks Of Gym Membership (#773398-11A) You are going to promise yourself that this is the year you finally find working out not to be...

MMO Year in Review: Second breakfast (May 2023)

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May brought interesting news for fans of Lord of the Rings, as Amazon and Embracer announced that they're working on yet another LOTR MMORPG,...

MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Criming

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Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Criming. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series, named...

MassivelyOP’s 2023 MMO Lifetime Achievement Award

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Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards for one more special award. Readers will remember that a few years ago, we decided to institute...

MMO Year in Review: Crisis maps (April 2023)

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Trouble continued brewing at Activision-Blizzard in April as UK regulators made clear their intent to impede Microsoft's acquisition, Blizzard MAUs and revenues sank in...

MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst Misapplication of Pay-to-Win

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Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst Misapplication of Pay-to-Win in an MMO. Yes, it's the...

The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2023

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This traditional roundup of the best Daily Grinds of the year is actually one of my favorites because it demonstrates just how long we've...

Heroes Evolved holiday gold, points, and skin giveaway, courtesy of NetDragon and MOP

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Heroes Evolved is one of multiple NetDragon games celebrating Christmas and the turn of the new year this week, and it's doing it with...

MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: MMORPG of the Year

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Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the MMORPG of the Year, which was awarded to Lost Ark last year. Longtime...

MMO Year in Review: Press F7 for E3 (March 2023)

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The bloodbath across the industry continued in March with layoffs at everything from EA and Disney to CCP Games and Twitch - and the...

MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Transmedia Synergy

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Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Transmedia Synergy. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series,...
Never quest.

A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2023

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This month marks MOP's ninth consecutive year covering science-related news specific to MMORPGs and MMOs, but like last year, there wasn't nearly as much...
The scholar sees when you do not index things, and he is not impressed.

End-of-year Eleven: The best value MMORPGs at the end of 2023

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I have been told that if I start another one of these columns musing on the abstract meaning of "value" as I have for...

MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Most Anticipated MMO

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Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Most Anticipated MMO, which was awarded to Soulframe last year. This award can...

MMO Year in Review: Amazon’s expanding empire (February 2023)

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Amazon Games continued expanding its games publishing arm in February of this year, owing to the anticipated announcement that it would be taking on...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 451: MMO mailbag-o-rama!

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Justin and Bree deliver a mailbag show for the holiday, tackling MMO food, indie news blogging, streaming for charity, granular MMO quests, kids and MMOs, MMO content cadence, stuff we wish we knew when we started in MMOs, and IPs we want turned into MMOs.

MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Prank

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Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Prank. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series, named...

MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: MMO Expansion of the Year

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Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the MMO Expansion of the Year, which was awarded to Guild Wars 2...

MMO Year in Review: NetEase versus Blizzard (January 2023)

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The end of the year means time to look forward to where we're going - but also to look back at where our genre...

MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Launch Announcement

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Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Launch Announcement. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series,...