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Massively OP Podcast Episode 121: Tap for Magic MMOs

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Justin and Bree discuss the Magic: the Gathering MMORPG, Fractured, Bless, WoW, Secret World Legends, Wild West Online, and MMO inventory mechanics.

Enter to win a Star Trek Online Fluidic Antiproton Wrist Lance for Xbox One

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In honor of the launch of Star Trek Online's season 13 Escalation for console, PWE has granted Massively OP a stack of Fluidic Antiproton Wrist Lances, a...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG most deserves a sequel?

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I was writing a post earlier this week with a pair of screenshots labeled sequentially -- "eso1.jpg" and "eso2.jpg" -- which mentally startled me...

The Daily Grind: Have you picked up any bad habits from MMORPGs?

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Star Wars Galaxies came close to wrecking my typing skills. Because semicolons functioned as linebreaks in macros and in chat in SWG, I got...

MMO Week in Review: New MMORPGs on the horizon (June 11, 2017)

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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! This...
It's hurtful.

WRUP: Don’t act all high and mighty because you have a face edition

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Carol, listen to me, I'm tired of having this argument. We keep going back and forth over it, and it always comes down to...
Zorp? Your beam makes a sound like zorp?

The Daily Grind: Has a soundtrack ever inspired you to try out an MMORPG?

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Massively OP reader Andrea has a fun question for us today. "I've been perusing through different MMO soundtracks these past days and some of...

Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok

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Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...

Grab Fafnir’s Dread Lord skin for SMITE from Hi-Rez and Massively OP

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Have you given SMITE a go since it added a dungeon-crawling PvE mode earlier this week? If not, this giveaway might give you motivation....

Bless Online’s western version has been canceled over ‘quality standards’

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The Neowiz statement that Aeria Games is no longer serving as the western Bless Online has now been backed up by Gamigo, Aeria's parent company, though contrary to...

Neowiz confirms axing Bless Online western publisher Aeria Games

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Rumors that suggested Aeria Games has been dismissed as the western Bless Online publisher appear to have been confirmed today. Korean gaming site Inven is reporting...
IF YOU WANT TO BE AN ACROBAT GO PLAY THAT

Massively OP Podcast Episode 120: Steaming into summer

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Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, FFXIV, Elder Scrolls Online, SWTOR, Ashes of Creation, Neverwinter, Shroud of the Avatar, and Black Desert, with a mailbag question on "don't give a fudge" gaming.

The Daily Grind: Do you make a point of watching or skipping MMO cutscenes?

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During this week's podcast, Justin jokes about how Final Fantasy XIV literally has an interface pop-up to warn you before it deluges you with...

Rumor: Aeria Games no longer publishing Bless Online for western audiences

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Rumors are flying this morning that Aeria Games has been dismissed as the western Bless Online publisher. MMORPG.com reports that it received "fairly substantial...

The Daily Grind: Who’s the best villain ever in an MMORPG?

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The past few weeks while I've been sick, I've been doing a rewatch of a couple of old favorite shows and fell into a TV...
Shocking!

MMO Week in Review: Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood’s everything (June 4, 2017)

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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! This...
And again.

WRUP: Answering the greatest science mysteries edition

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Man, science is so simple. All we really have to do is stop entrusting all of it to the scientists, right? We can just,...
ANGRY.RAR

Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist

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This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG studio is the most generous to players?

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Longtime MOP community contributor deekay posed us an interesting question in the context of Marvel Heroes this week: Is it a good thing when developers...
You have to want it.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 119: Finalest Fantasy

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Justin and Eliot discuss FFXIV, FFXI, Black Desert, Neverwinter, World of Warcraft, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, EverQuest, Allods, and RIFT, with mailbag questions on MMO role homogenization, PvP pay-to-win, and the Marvel Heroes uproar.

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