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Massively OP Podcast Episode 455: Odyssey to the abyss

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Justin and Bree discuss Riot's and Blizzard's layoffs, the death of Blizzard's Odyssey, Palworld, Kritika, The Day Before, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in Guild Wars 2 and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on memorable fluff loot.
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MMO Week in Review: The Activision-Blizzard and Riot layoffs

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Two of the biggest gaming congloms chose this week to lay off a combined total of 2500 people, as Riot Games and Microsoft-owned-Activision-Blizzard shed...
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WRUP: Chuweo edition

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Hey everyone, I know that generally speaking these entries for What Are You Playing are just ridiculous and you can totally ignore them if...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 454: MMO roadmap roundup

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Justin and Bree discuss the 2024 roadmaps for Lord of the Rings Online, Lost Ark, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, EVE Online, Elder Scrolls Online, New World, EverQuest, EverQuest II, and Wayfinder, with adventures in LOTRO, FFXIV, and City of Heroes.

MMO Week in Review: Elder Scrolls Online paves the way for Gold Road

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Elder Scrolls Online fully unveiled its Gold Road chapter this week, letting players peek into the region, the city of Skingrad, and a tantalizing...
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WRUP: A spectacular story about Lyle with help from Wikipedia edition

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Lyle is a great guy who was born in Scotland in 1987! Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Wait,...

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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Justin, Bree, Chris, and Sam sit for a roundtable to discuss the MMOs we've been playing, our highlights for 2023, the MOP awards, and the state of the genre.

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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Justin, Eliot, MJ, and Carlo sit for a roundtable to discuss the MMOs we've been playing, our highlights for 2023, the MOP awards, and the state of the genre.

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...