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The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO ‘harbinger of failure’?

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Earlier this year, blog Kill Ten Rats wrote about "Harbingers of Failure," a term coined by a quad of marketing researchers to describe people...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Trend of the Year

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best MMO trend of 2015. Last year, we chose sandbox and social gameplay as the awardee...
Appreciable?

The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio maintains the best community presence?

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Last week, when the Massively staff was debating internally which MMO company deserved our best MMO studio of 2015 award, I argued that overseas studios...

MMO Week in Review: Star Citizen’s ambitions (December 13, 2015)

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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! Star...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Likely to Flop

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our most likely to flop in 2016 and beyond award. Last year, Star Citizen took home this dishonor, leading to...

Massively OP’s holiday gift series roundup

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We're down to just a few more days until Christmas, so hopefully you've been taking advantage of our gift guides for the MMO players...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Pseudo-MMO of the Year

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best pseudo-MMO of the year. The games that populate this category are games that we'd usually cover...
Shine shine.

WRUP: On the shininess of skin edition

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Let's cover something that I would think is... kind of obvious. Skin is not, by default, shiny. It is not reflective. It does not...
Do I look like a patient cow?

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the World of Warcraft fan

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Look, I know what you're thinking, and I'm sorry to say there's not much to be done. As great a gift as it would...

Leaderboard: What’s the most overrated MMO?

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In the comments of our award post for Most Underrated MMO of 2015, Massively OP commenter Tongle demanded an equivalent counterpart. Can we get a...

Grab a Forsaken World ‘Servant of Time’ key from PWE and MOP

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Our last Forsaken World giveaway went over so well that we thought we'd do another one! Perfect World has granted MOP keys for 1000 Forsaken World pets...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest Disappointment of 2015

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the biggest MMO disappointment of 2015. Last year, we gave this "award" to WildStar and ArcheAge in...

The Daily Grind: Do you roll new characters when you return to an MMO?

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It's been a really long time since I logged into Lord of the Rings Online to do anything other than pay up my hobbit...

Stratics MMO players turn to Indiegogo in bid to buy their own site

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If you've been playing MMOs for as long as I have, then Stratics.com was probably one of the first MMO websites you ever visited,...

Massively Overthinking: MMO predictions for 2016

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Now that we've all had a good laugh at the things we got wrong and marveled at the things we got right in last...

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for The Secret World and Funcom fan

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It's the holidays, and in the spirit of giving, I am going I'm going to give you ideas -- for gifts! Instead of waxing...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best MMO studio of the year. Last year's award was won by SOE, you'll recall, a...

Devilian formally launches today; here’s our coverage roundup

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One of the benefits of publishing games from across the Pacific is that a studio can get it to us quickly, and that's exactly...

Win a Blade & Soul ‘Master’ founder pack from NCsoft and Massively OP

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Blade & Soul begins its next-to-last beta test tomorrow, and if you're not in it, that could be because you haven't pre-ordered with a founder...
Getting carded.

The Daily Grind: Will you try Epic’s Paragon MOBA?

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I hadn't heard of Paragon before last weekend, but after watching the brief gameplay clip that Epic released to tease its upcoming MOBA, I'm...