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Massively OP Podcast Episode 478: Ultima Online finds its stones

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Justin and Bree discuss the WoW War Within prepatch and Ultima Online's New Legacy, followed by a mailbag catch-up segment on AI, holidays, release timing, and MMO complexity.

MMO Week in Review: The WoWGG union and WoW’s War Within prepatch

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World of Warcraft offered two pieces of huge news this week: Its developer team formed a wall-to-wall union, WoWGG, that includes members from multiple...
I am assured these are plums.

WRUP: Purchases I have made on eBay that have turned out to be a box of plums edition

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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about our most expensive MMO purchases (oh no...)

Massively OP Podcast Episode 477: The lineage of Lineage

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Justin and Bree discuss Throne and Liberty's beta, Ultima Online's New Legacy, New World, Spellfarers, TennoCon, and Soulforge, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, No Man's Sky, and T&L, plus a mailbag topic on the usefulness of MMO mobile apps.

MMO Week in Review: Worlds, Solisium, and TennoCon

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Lumpy Spacesuit Couture or not, Hello Games' No Man's Sky dropped a massive revamp-centric patch meant to enliven the MMO's environments, among other things....

Grab a New World Aeternum PS5 console beta key from MOP and Amazon – EU version

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After a brief delay, MMORPG players - and non-MMORPG players, as Amazon hopes - will finally be getting their first look at New World's...

Grab a New World Aeternum PS5 console beta key from MOP and Amazon – NA version

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After a brief delay, MMORPG players - and non-MMORPG players, as Amazon hopes - will finally be getting their first look at New World's...

TennoCon 2024: The terrific twos of TennoCon charities and Make-A-Wish

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Good things come in twos at TennoCon 2024. Even the year itself is beautifully divisible by twos. But the best of the twos isn't...
This might have.

WRUP: Completely normal text about pears edition

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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about headaches (seriously).
Pnuk

Massively OP Podcast Episode 476: Corepunk and Pantheon race to early access

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Justin and Bree discuss Corepunk, Pantheon, Zenith, World of Warcraft, and Once Human, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on evolving FFXIV Dawntrail's storytelling.

MMO Week in Review: Early access windows for Corepunk and Pantheon

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Two different MMORPGs announced early access this week, both planned for the end of the year: the long-awaited Corepunk, and the Kickstarted Pantheon. Something...
Special Agent Athenian Goddess and Special Agent Thumb.

WRUP: A list of places where I have not kissed David Duchovny with tongue edition

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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about the oldest albums we owned.

Here’s how to access Pantheon’s July beta test for free, courtesy of Visionary Realms

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Pantheon's big announcement this week - that it's officially launching into early access in December after years of testing and crowdfunding - was accompanied...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 475: The Legend of Ralph Lobster

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Justin and Bree discuss Raph Koster's Stars Reach, Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail, Daybreak's purchase of Singularity 6 and Palia, Nexon's The First Descendant, and Guild Wars 2's housing, with a mailbag topic on the legend of Ralph Lobster.

MMO Week in Review: Daybreak’s Palia buyout, Dawntrail’s peak concurrency

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Even in a holiday week, the MMO news just kept coming: Daybreak startled nearly everyone by buying out Palia studio Singularity 6, Final Fantasy...
boab

WRUP: What I think I could realistically accomplish in various musical genres edition

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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about what time we'd prefer to wake up.

MMO Week in Review: Stars (Wars Galaxies 2) Reach

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In my MMO guild, whenever somebody mentions a new game, it's tradition to absurdly announced that we're all moving to whatever it is, and...
take THAT

WRUP: Jim stole your popsicles edition

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It's time for our weekly open column about what you're playing, which is not about Jim or popsicles.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 474: Taking Tarisland to task

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Justin and Bree discuss Tarisland's launch, Pax Dei's early access, Throne and Liberty's launch plans, LOTRO's new legendary servers, Raph Koster's mystery MMORPG, and Black Desert's Heidel Ball, with a mailbag topic on goofy cross-promos in MMORPGs.
bro you gotta trust me bro

MMO Week in Review: Tarisland, Pax Dei, and Black Desert’s Heidel Ball

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Tarisland officially launched this week, treating global players to Tencent's WoW clone that looks... kinda less and less like a WoW clone as you...