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Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best Popcorn MMO of 2016

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best Popcorn MMO of 2016, which is a brand-new award on MOP this year and was...

The Daily Grind: What was the best new MMORPG zone added in 2016?

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It's practically expected of a major MMORPG patch or expansion to add new zones -- the more, the better, setting aside their self-inflicted endgame...

Massively Overthinking: Our 2017 MMORPG predictions

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With 2016 drawing to a close and 2017 rushing up to meet us, the Massively OP team has regrouped for another round of bold and...

MMO Year in Review: Blade & Soul reaches western shores (January 2016)

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December's many article roundups and awards always remind us that it's hard to remember what happened last month, let alone what happened way back...

Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Biggest MMORPG Disappointment of 2016

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for the Biggest MMORPG Disappointment of 2016, which was awarded in 2015 to World of Warcraft's...
To be fair, I suppose you can't make a game with that title and then have lots of water, but.

Pick up a key for Cloud Pirates’ third closed beta and jump in right now

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Dirigibles! Explosions! Christmas! One of these things just doesn't fit in here! Yep, it's time for another round of Cloud Pirates closed beta right through the...

Don’t miss The Game Archaeologist’s histories of Asheron’s Call

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The impending loss of Asheron's Call -- and Asheron's Call 2 again -- hit the MMORPG community pretty hard when the sunsets were announced...

Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG PvP of 2016

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG PvP Experience in 2016, which is new to our awards series this year...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 96: Rogue Two

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Justin and Bree discuss the big Turbine/LOTRO/DDO news, plus Xmas in MMOs, WoW legendaries, console Trove, poor ArcheAge, and 2017's offerings, with a surprisingly pertinent mailbag question on going indie vs. sticking with a publisher.

Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Biggest MMORPG Industry Blunder of 2016

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMORPG Industry Blunder of 2016. Last year, we called the Star Citizen melodrama the biggest...

The Daily Grind: Does Daybreak’s involvement with LOTRO and DDO worry you?

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Yesterday, we were all pretty astonished to learn that Turbine has spun out Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online --...

Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016, which is a new award for MOP and one proposed...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG had the best community in 2016?

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A loss of a sense of community is something many MMORPG players lament as our genre approaches two decades, whether they think communities slip away...
ArcheAge

MMO Week in Review: ArcheAge’s tumult (December 18, 2016)

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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! ArcheAge...

Grab a Heavy Gear Assault early access key from Stompy Bot and MOP

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Stompy Bot's mecha shooter Heavy Gear Assault was meant to hit early access on Steam this week, but Valve has yet to usher it...

Leaderboard: What’s the most overrated MMORPG in 2016?

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This year -- like every year -- players in the comments of our award post for Most Underrated MMORPG of 2016 asked for the mean girl...

Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond, which was awarded to Blade & Soul last...

Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: The Pseudo-MMO of the Year

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best Pseudo-MMO of 2016, which was awarded to ARK: Survival Evolved last year. As you might surmise,...
I live inside a wrecking ball.

WRUP: Come for the main storyline, but stay for the food edition

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Welcome, traveler, to Hoodle's Watch! It's a town named after some guy, presumably named Hoodle. Anyhow, I'd ask you why you're here, but I...

Pick up a Starfall Tactics pre-alpha key from Snowforged and MOP

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Snowforged Entertainment's online space strategy MMO Starfall Tactics is running another pre-alpha event for testers this weekend. "Wars for territories, planet colonization, Houses (faction guilds), thousands planets...

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