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Happy Halloween from Massively OP! Check out all the MMO Halloweens we visited

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If you've followed any of our Halloween 2017 MMO coverage or even just skimmed through our great big guide to Halloween events in the...
Whooops.

The Daily Grind: Should video game developers unionize?

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The New York Times ran an op-ed from Kotaku editor Jason Schreier last week outlining the perils of game industry "crunch": 80-to-100-hour weeks, often...
just come back

WRUP: World of Warcraft: The We Just Want Eliot To Come Back Expansion edition

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Well, here's our World of Warcraft expansion leak. Apparently, it's titled World Of Warcraft: The We Just Want Eliot To Come Back Expansion. I...

Massively Overthinking: The state of early access, alpha, and beta ‘testing’ in the MMO genre

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I remember years ago when then-Massively-columnist Rubi Bayer let loose with a blistering rant on the state of faux beta MMOs. She helmed Betawatch...

The Daily Grind: Are you an MMORPG gamer playing Destiny 2?

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Pretty much the entire time between when Destiny 1 was announced and the day Destiny 2 was confirmed for PC, every single article we...

SuperData declares Destiny 2 the ‘fastest selling digital console game in history’

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SuperData's September 2017 video gaming market global revenue analysis should make Bungie happy, whether or not it was bleeding players ahead of the Destiny 2...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 141: Mouse invasions and elf butts

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Justin and Bree discuss MMORPG Halloween, Trove, World of Warcraft, EverQuest II, DDO, Life is Feudal, Bless, Destiny 2, and Project Gorgon, with a mailbag question on how and whether we should all be supporting struggling MMOs.

Enter to win a Gigantic Ezren Ghal hero unlock or Voden skin from PWE and MOP

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In honor of the launch of Gigantic's Halloween update and its concomitant new hero and map, PWE has granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies...
lizards

WRUP: Of balls and pins thereof edition

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Why are pinball machines so expensive? All right, that one's obvious, they're rather elaborate things with lots of moving parts all wired up to...

Betawatch: Closers Online’s alpha is totally open this weekend (October 20, 2017)

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Welcome back to another edition of Betawatch, the game where literally everything is in early access forever. Except Closers, of course, which is open!...

Massively Overthinking: Is open-world housing really a ‘failed’ MMORPG experiment?

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Massively OP's Justin Olivetti has a provocative article on his personal gaming blog, Bio Break, this week on MMORPG housing. "I once again wonder why...
SUPER, ALL GOOD

Activision secures patent for software to trick you into buying cash shop stuff, seriously

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Hey, gang, this is absolutely wonderful. Activision has filed and been granted a patent for software designed to push you into buying cash shop...

The Daily Grind: Do you think EA is pivoting into a Star Wars pseudo-MMO?

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Yesterday's surprise revelation that EA was canning Visceral Games and "pivoting" the design of its in-progress Star Wars linear adventure RPG clearly struck a...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 140: Dubious drops in LOTRO, FFXIV, and SWTOR

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends' Orochi Tower patch, Lord of the Rings' weird patch week, FFXIV's housing mess, SWTOR's balance patch, Warframe's open-world patch, and H1Z1's name-change patch, with a mailbag question about older gamers in MMORPGs.

Grab a RoboManiac currency key from YEPS and Massively OP to get your ‘bot on

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So here's a new game that's just rumbled onto our radar: It's called RoboManiac, and it's a self-described free-to-play browser MMO that combines "an...

Take home a Hand of the Gods Medusa key in honor of the console closed beta launch

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Hi-Rez's turn-based strategy card game Hand of the Gods -- you might recall it better as SMITE Tactics or even its internal name, Hotgods...

The Daily Grind: Is PUBG finally the ‘WoW killer killer’ we’ve been waiting for?

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Say the words "WoW killer" to a bunch of MMORPG players in 2017 and you're bound to get eyerolls, for good reason: Even though...

Enter to win a Skyforge PS4 Revenant Quickplay Pack from My.com and MOP!

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Hey, Skyforge players! Are you having fun with the newly launched Revenant class? You know, that "mighty warlord, appropriately adorned with impressive armor and wielding...
Vengeance.

WRUP: Names I have used for MMO zones other than their proper names edition

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Boregrimmar. Dorkshore. Strangle-me Vale. Dun Moron. Ironfudge. The Kvetchlands. Hillsbad Footfails. Poorgrimmar. Zangrymarsh. More Donuts. Fishguard. Palaran. Nar Shady. Lomsa Lemonsa. L.A. Nausea. Goopstaberg....
Nope.

Betawatch: Wild West Online’s alpha just isn’t ready (October 13, 2017)

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It's not high noon in Wild West Online. It's not any time at all, in fact. The game's early access alpha would have established...

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