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WRUP: The secret life of Harry, metaphorical construct for your journey of self-awareness edition

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Hello, hello, what a joy it is to meet you. My name, as you'll not momentarily bother to pause even a moment to learn,...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite obscure MMORPG?

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Even at a site like Massively OP, we still run across MMOs we've never, ever heard of, obscure little gems (or trainwrecks, depending) that...

Massively Overthinking: WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and MMO raiding in 2015

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Here we are in October, sandwiched between WildStar's F2P conversion and Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns launch, and it seems as if we're...

Global Chat: Why your MMO pushed me away

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Hey MMO developers, have you ever wondered why players are driven away from your games? Two bloggers took a stab at a list of features...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 34: Rollbacks and breakups

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Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, WildStar, GW2, RuneScape, Marvel Heroes, Black Desert, Nexon/NCsoft, WoW, and Wakfu, with mailbag questions on expansion pricing and horizontal gameplay.

The Daily Grind: Have you ever been scammed in an MMO?

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One quirk of some early MMORPGs was that character names weren't always unique. It was possible to roll multiple characters with precisely the same name and...

Sword and Bored: World clipping

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Mo falls through the cracks in the world and struggles to save himself from his MMO.

The Daily Grind: Will you try Wurm Unlimited?

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I don't know what was going on with me during the week of September 16th, but I completely missed the news about fantasy sandbox...

MMO Week in Review: Star Citizen’s one million (October 18, 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! The...
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WRUP: Non-interactive text adventure edition

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You are in a field. There are exits to the north, south, and west. The east doesn't count. East is the way that cowards...

The Daily Grind: How would you mix MMO features to create the best one ever?

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Today's Daily Grind question -- more like command! -- from Massively OP Kickstarter donor Tim is short and sweet: Mix features to create your perfect MMO. It...

Grab a Stronghold Kingdoms: Global Conflict gift pack from Massively OP (All gone now!)

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Stronghold Kingdoms is a rich castle-themed MMORTS with over six years of operation under its belt, and this week, it's patching in a new expansion. The...

Massively Opinionated: Which is the best open-world PvP, WvW or FFA?

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It's a real battle to the death when Larry Everett invites Tina Lauro and Brendan Drain to debate WvW and FFA PvP.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 33: Ascent’s James Hicks

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Justin and Bree fête Ascent's James Hicks discussing Star Citizen, Wurm Online, Ultima Online, WildStar, Daybreak's mystery game, Elite: Dangerous, RIFT, and Funcom.

ArenaNet isn’t ‘leafing’ us out of Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns hype

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A mystery box arrived on my porch today containing a cryptic message... ... and a tree. Unfortunately for this lovely tree, I don't have my Sylvari's green...

The Stream Team: 12 Days of TOR, Day 9

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Chapter 2 of Star Wars: The Old Republic has been completed. MJ's Imperial Agent is free from the brainwashing programming of Imperial Intelligence. But a...

Happy Halloween from TERA! Who wants a ‘Lost Isle’ promo key? [All gone, thanks!]

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TERA is one of those rare MMORPGs that seems to do better the longer it runs, and today, it's celebrating Halloween in a big...

Sword and Bored: Ready check

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Mo joins his first raid. The first boss fight has been explained and everyone is ready, right? Right?

The Daily Grind: Are you going to play Squadron 42?

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A whole bunch of Star Citizen-related stuff happened this past weekend, and I've got a lot of catching up to do since I missed...

The MOP Up: Skyforge’s new raid (October 11, 2015)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...