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Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2024?

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Every year when it comes time to update this poll for January, I consider tossing it out. But the last few years of Daybreak...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 453: Massively minds of the roundtable

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Ready for yet another staff roundtable, this time with Justin, Bree, Sam, and Chris? You best be, as these fine minds discuss City of...

MMO Week in Review: MMO peregrinations with Pictomancers, phasers, and PSO2

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Bad news, everyone: Some dude on Reddit says there's not enough MMORPG news, so you're imagining Star Trek Online announcing its 31st season, Vindictus...
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WRUP: Learn Portuguese by assuming that every language you don’t know is probably the same edition

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Hello. My name is Stanley Seagull. Like many of you, I have long wished that I knew Portuguese so that I could speak with...

Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2023?

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It's no secret that whenever somebody declares a GOTY, somebody else is going to say that game is overrated. Heck, we cover some major...

Leaderboard: What was the best *new* MMO of 2023?

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So I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we have a lot of MMORPGs coming in 2024!...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 452: A staff roundtable for a new year

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We're kicking off a new year of the podcast with a staff roundtable with Justin, Eliot, MJ, and Carlo as we talk about our...

MMO Week in Review: Strong and pretty

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We're sorry, but Bree can't come to the Week in Review right now; she's too busy playing City of Heroes, whose Homecoming servers were...

MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: Weirdest Thing an MMO Company Sent Me This Year

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We're finishing out our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year! Coming in at #1 on our list is… Literally a Can of...
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WRUP: Last WRUP and testament edition

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I, Eliot Lefebvre, being exceedingly depressed for so many very valid reasons and a couple of wholly speculative ones which sort of torpedoes "sound...

MMO Year in Review: Come on baby Light No Fire (December 2023)

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We're finally coming to our recap of the last month of 2023 and the end of this recap series with our poke into December,...

MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: MMO Most Likely to Make Us Wake Up Screaming

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We're continuing our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year! Coming in at #2 on our list is… Diablo IV's lucid dreaming sleep...

MassivelyOP’s complete 2023 awards recap and debrief

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As we did in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, today we're going to recap our annual awards and other articles from...

MMO Year in Review: The Worldsoul Saga (November 2023)

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November played host to BlizzCon, the first in-person show for Blizzard in years, and while overall it wasn't spectacular, World of Warcraft fans were...

MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: Weirdest thing MMO gamers did to win a forum argument (yes, again)

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We're continuing our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year! Coming in at #3 on our list is… Leaking more military secrets For the...

Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2023

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If preserving MMORPGs is your jam, 2023 was not a great year. The one nice thing I can say about it is that we...

MMO Year in Review: Angry Earth, hungry Microsoft (October 2023)

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New World opened the gates of its Rise of the Angry Earth expansion this month, driving its servers and queues to capacity all over...

MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: Weirdest Use of AI in MMOs

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We're continuing our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year! Coming in at #4 on our list is… NetDragon's AI CEO This piece is...
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MMO Year in Review: The next EverQuest Next (September 2023)

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Daybreak parent company EG7 attempted to woo investors in September with nebulous plans for a new EverQuest MMORPG, perhaps the long-rumored EverQuest III -...
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The MassivelyOP Podcast in review, 2023 edition

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Recap of all the shows released in 2022, bringing our total to 733 episodes (331+402).

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