The Daily Grind: What one thing should MMORPGs do to increase player retention?
Zubon at Kill Ten Rats recently spied a lovely tidbit over on Dr Richard Bartle's blog. Bartle, I shouldn't need to type, is considered...
Castles get an upgrade in Gloria Victis
If players or guilds are going to put the effort in purchasing and building up a castle in Gloria Victis, they are going to...
Skyforge explains tweaks to the Cathedral and the Tower of Knowledge
There are few feelings as negative as being unable to catch up. That's been a major problem with Skyforge's Tower of Knowledge for a...
MyWorld empowers players create and link their own ARPG levels
If you are the sort that has ever looked at online game design and thought to yourself, "I could do so much better," then...
Shroud of the Avatar: Kas Ruins, custom NPCs, and marble columns
Shroud of the Avatar's 219th newsletter has arrived! Of note is the segment on the Kas Ruins, whose biome is based on the Rockies...
The Stream Team: Hunting down an Elder Scrolls Online troublemaker
While trying to get all the races to work together to defend a town in Elder Scrolls Online, Massively OP's MJ kept hearing about...
How to farm 570 LOTRO points in under three hours
One of the interesting quirks of Lord of the Rings Online's free-to-play setup is that players can earn premium currency -- LOTRO points, or...
Path of Exile on virtual reality, auto-sort, and offline play
Path of Exile's latest dev Q&A has a few nuggets of interest for followers of the MMOARPG. What caught our eye? Don't expect an...
Guilded gives a new online tool for recruiting, organizing, and running player groups
There's a new entry on the block for online game guild organization and recruiting: Guilded. This site purports to be your one-stop shopping experience...
Leaderboard: The Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind ‘chapter vs. DLC’ fee debate
In the comments of a Daily Grind last week, a few commenters tangented into debate about The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind pricing.
See, the original...
Conan Exiles on this week’s patch, The Purge, and a ‘partial wipe’
DualShockers has a new interview out with Conan Exiles' Joel Bylos. It's from GDC, but it's still worth a look given that it includes...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s removed skills, Ranged/Caster edition
Well, folks, by all reasonable estimation we're going to have the final story patch of Heavensward next week. Why? Because there's no more March...
Star Citizen will drop DX11, avoid DX12 support
Over the weekend, Cloud Imperium fielded questions from players on some of the more technical elements on display in Star Citizen's last Around the...
South Korea’s Netmarble to launch ambitious IPO
South Korean Tencent affiliate Netmarble announced today that it will launch an initial public offering to the tune of $2.35 billion US. That works...
The Repopulation is back, but major bugs ensure the next patch is a ways off
Idea Fabrik's internal dev team published a dev update on The Repopulation this morning, following the game's relaunch last week. The studio says it's...
DDO and LOTRO suffer sub woes, LOTRO Issue 20 arrives this week
How would you feel if you paid money to subscribe to an MMO, and the company took the money without delivering that sub? Probably...
The Daily Grind: Do you roll multiple MMO characters of the same class?
I'm closing in on "done" -- my own peculiar version of done, anyway -- on my ninth character in Guild Wars 2. I've rolled...
MMO Week in Review: PAX East awards, EverQuest’s 18th, and ESO’s battlegrounds (March 19, 2017)
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!
A...
EVE Evolved: What’s the deal with EVE’s PLEX changes?
This week CCP Games announced that some big changes are on the way for PLEX in EVE Online. The PLEX or "30-day Pilot's License...
The MOP Up: Kali awakens in Dragon Nest (March 19, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
