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MMO Week in Review: Winter has come to Guild Wars 2 (November 27, 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! Guild...
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WRUP: Testament from the helmsman of a doomed ship edition

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If you are reading this, then it is as an epigraph. Had I survived to shore, I would have destroyed it. Instead, you are...

Stack your deck with a free Chronicle: Runescape Legends card pack bundle from MOP and Jagex

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What's better than getting a good deal over the holidays? How about getting stuff for free -- without having to even leave your house?...

The Daily Grind: Are you a consumables hoarder in MMORPGs?

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This weekend of all weekends, it only seems right to ask you about hoarding, although I don't mean just getting stuff to have it...

Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the people of the MMORPG genre

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It's Thanksgiving here in the US, and we wish you all a happy one, whether you're celebrating locally or not. For this week's Massively Overthinking...

The best Thanksgiving and Black Friday MMORPG deals

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Getcher credit cards ready, folks. It's time. (New additions are at the bottom!) The Secret World is part of the Humble Bundle this week; you can...

The Daily Grind: What’s the friendliest PvP encounter you’ve ever had in an MMORPG?

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Not long ago, my little family detoured from our weekend road trip to have lunch with MOP's Eliot and his wife. Video games were...

MMO Week in Review: You get an expansion, and YOU get an expansion! (November 20, 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! It's...

The Daily Grind: Do you make use of your MMORPG’s public test realms?

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The patch server. The PTR. The PTS. Whatever your MMORPG calls it, it's probably got one: some sort of publicly accessible server that gets the...
why is that the picture omg

WRUP: I know what I’m doing edition

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Here, let me take over. Trust me, I know what I'm doing. Here, what I'm doing right now is grotesquely overstating my competence at...

Wanna play Cloud Pirates over Thanksgiving? There’s a key for that

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If you've been thinking that flying your dirigible around and blowing up the enemy might sound like a fun way to spend Thanksgiving, Cloud...
Everything's cool out here. Like, emotionally.

The Daily Grind: Are you going back to RIFT for Starfall Prophecy?

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After a briefly delayed beta event last month, RIFT's Starfall Prophecy expansion launched this week. RIFT is Trion Worlds' crown jewel, and this third expansion...

Massively Overthinking: The many ‘NGE’ moments across MMORPG history

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Eleven years ago this week, the New Game Enhancements patch descended on Star Wars Galaxies, forever changing the trajectory of the game, SOE, and...
Everybody look at me.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 91: Accounting 101

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Justin and Bree talk NCsoft & Nexon, Neocron, Marvel Heroes, SWTOR, EVE Online, Black Desert, Twin Saga, and The Secret World, with mailbag questions on MMO factions and Blizzard's duty to the genre, plus a preview of the second part of our Mark Jacobs interview.
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The Daily Grind: Are you going back to EVE Online today?

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EVE Online's Ascension expansion launches today, dropping the subscription paywall that's barricaded the game for well over a decade and further reducing the small...

The Daily Grind: How much do ‘day one’ sales numbers matter to MMORPGs?

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GamesIndustry.biz has an intriguing piece out this week on the industry's obsession with "day one" and "week one" -- that period AAA game studios...

MMO Week in Review: Black Desert’s big merge (November 13, 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! Kakao can...
The elf is superfluous in this scenario.

Leaderboard: What made you quit your last MMORPG?

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As the subscription MMORPG continues to dwindle and be replaced by free-to-play games (where players come and go without notice) and buy-to-play games (which...
Are we doing the time warp?

Leaderboard: How would you rate BlizzCon 2016?

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During this past week's podcast, Justin, Eliot, and I debated the overall tenor of BlizzCon 2016 -- and found it more or less lacking....
You were hoping for a picture of Tgek'dmal, I know.

WRUP: Excerpt from my NaNoWriMo novel ‘Claude Mayonnaise, Serial Laundry Defiler’ edition

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The city was a dark place, dark like the attitude I put forth in hopes of impressing people. The name's Claude Mayonnaise, because my...

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