MMO Week in Review: You get an expansion, and YOU get an expansion! (November 20, 2016)
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!
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Astellia Online proves that MMOs and TCGs can coexist in harmony
One of the games that's emerging from G-Star 2016 is Nexon's Astellia Online, an MMO that heavily incorporates digital card game-like features into its...
The MOP Up: Wurm Online cooks up a hearty Thanksgiving meal (November 20, 2016)
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...
Ultima Online’s publish 95 introduces December crafting festival and holiday rewards
Ultima Online's publish 95 is live this week in the 19-year-old MMORPG. The headline features are the Artisan Festival and holiday rewards, which aren't...
Space Wars’ ship viewer gives players a hands-on preview of its vessels
When you are sitting around waiting to get into an MMO's beta or for the launch itself, the frustration of not being able to...
One Shots: A home away from home
If you were to move into an MMO for real, where would you live? I posed this question last week to the One Shots...
The Daily Grind: Do you make use of your MMORPG’s public test realms?
The patch server. The PTR. The PTS. Whatever your MMORPG calls it, it's probably got one: some sort of publicly accessible server that gets the...
Skyforge nerfs squad adventures and steels itself for a Reaper invasion
Love it, hate it, or ambivalent toward it, it's hard to deny that Skyforge is pretty on the ball with its production of updates....
Black Desert guild heraldry sparks questions over offensive symbols
This past week, an interesting guild situation arose in Black Desert. A Massively OP tipster was surprised by an unusual symbol above the entrance to a...
The Game Archaeologist: Mark Jacobs on Mythic’s early online games, part 2
We're back with our second part of an interview retrospective of Mythic Entertainment's early online games with CSE's Mark Jacobs. Last week, we talked...
Dogma: Eternal Night playable builds are coming in December
Thanks to some additional crowdfunding, Dogma: Eternal Night will be able to start rolling out playable builds starting at the end of December. These...
The Daily Grind: Do you hope that MMOs based on popular franchises return?
Probably what is most upsetting about the current trend of MMORPG development is that most studios seem to have completely abandoned molding online roleplaying...
Ditch your ARK for another with cross-map transfers
While folks are still waiting for a PS4 launch for ARK: Survival Evolved, (devs have said it is at SONY undergoing the certification process),...
Betawatch: Cloud Pirates is ready for the next round of testing (November 18, 2016)
Are you ready to steal a whole lot of clouds in Cloud Pirates? (If that's not the fictional background, please don't tell me, I...
Champions Online heralds the return of Nighthawk
Legendary superhero Nighthawk has gone rogue -- or has he? Players will have to investigate a series of appearances of Nighthawk and his vigilante...
Star Citizen plans to share internal timelines, justifies ship sales as not P2W
Star Citizen's latest newsletter does three things: celebrates the fourth anniversary of the game's Kickstarter, explains why you still don't know when the game...
Nexon teases us with a glimpse at Project Meta
Among the small army of titles that Nexon brought to G-Star this week is Project Meta. The studio didn't actually bring the game itself,...
Ghostcrawler reveals the design origins of World of Warcraft’s Death Knights
Just because Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street is over with the League of Legends team these days doesn't mean that he has stopped talking about World...
The Stream Team: Checking out EVE as free-to-play
Here's something you may not have expected to ever see: Massively OP's MJ in EVE Online! It's not because she has never played (she...
The Division’s crying woman is no longer crying… or present
Before patch 1.4, The Division featured a crying woman in the Grindhouse. Why was she crying? Nobody knows, but considering that the game is...
