Opinion

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Good car, bad game.

The Daily Grind: What old inventory items in MMOs do you keep around even though they’re dead weight?

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I should really get rid of my beast tribe currency from Final Fantasy XIV version 1.0, but part of me still holds on to...

LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s Hytbold experiment

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The landscape of any long-running MMORPG is bound to be littered with various developer experiments that were tried and later abandoned. Lord of the...
Notably after!

The Daily Grind: When you return to an MMO, do you start over or continue?

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Recently I loaded back up Guild Wars 2 after a multi-year absence. While I still have a strong roster of decked-out level 80 characters...
Herp to the derp.

WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour – Legion

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Ah, good. This one is more fun than last week. As much as the latter half of World of Warcraft expansions heads into more...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever paid for MMO-related services like coaching?

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A few weeks back, MMO veteran dev John Smedley posted a tweet about paying for, of all things, coaching in a video game, and...

Massively Overthinking: What do you hoard in MMORPGs?

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Last week, online gamers made headlines for hoarding toilet paper. No, not in real life - in Fallout 76. Way to embrace the apocalypse,...
Never over.

Perfect Ten: The stages of the MMO life cycle

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To this day, no one has a quote as useful on the subject of life and death as E. B. White: "We're born, we...
That was a real laugh!

Vague Patch Notes: Ambition is not delivery in MMOs

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So Chronicles of Elyria is dead in the water. Or... wait, that's not actually accurate; let me start again. Chronicles of Elyria has admitted...
Boldly gone.

The Daily Grind: What made you drop a daily routine in an MMO?

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I like Star Trek Online. I really do. I like the whole meta-event stretching through its event that lets you pick up a free...

First impressions of the elusive Phantasy Star Online 2

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We certainly live in interesting times. Last year, the idea of playing Phantasy Star Online 2 while I'm explicitly told to not leave the house...
That'll cost you money.

Massively on the Go: Why MMO players will love Animal Crossing New Horizons

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Some of you may have noticed that several staffers and fellow MassivelyOP readers noted that they were playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons last weekend....

The Daily Grind: Which MMO rogue server do you recommend trying?

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It is truly heartening to see so many sunsetted MMORPGs being revived thanks to the tireless efforts of rogue server operators. Preservation of these...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 264: Don’t feel blue, MapleStory 2

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Justin, Bree, Eliot, and Chris discuss the pandemic's positive impact on gaming, MapleStory 2, Guild Wars 2, EverQuest, and Warhammer Online, with adventures in Animal Crossing, Star Trek Online, GW2, SWG Legends, Dauntless, and FFXIV, and an epic lightning round mailbag.

Choose My Adventure: In which Albion Online decides to beat me up

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OK, Albion Online. I get it. You're a tough guy. You see a soft, doughy person like me and decide to lull me into...

The Daily Grind: What once-popular MMORPG terminology has fallen out of use?

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Let's play with words. A while back I saw someone describing the act of MMO banksitting on Twitter without actually using the term. It's one...

Fight or Kite: Hackmud is more than a MUD – it’s a living cyberpunk world

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As these words loaded into your browser, sending bits and bytes across a vast array of interconnected wires and tubes, someone is typing away...

The Survivalist: Last Oasis virtual dev tour highlights nomadic life and offline safety

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At this stage of the survival genre game, you need more than just a novel idea for the setting. You need unique features to...
Whee!

Wisdom of Nym: Expected expansion features still unseen in Final Fantasy XIV

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We're still not into the period of time in which we'll learn about patch 5.3 for Final Fantasy XIV. Indeed, there's a lot of life left...
The vista

The Daily Grind: What’s the perfect size for an MMO battleground?

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I've made no secret of the fact that I like big battle MMO PvP. I want it to feel huge. I want there to...

Jukebox Heroes: Warframe’s soundtrack

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I'm always keeping an ear out for recommended soundtracks from our readers here at Massively OP, and one that seems to get pushed my...

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