Opinion

For the music trendy in the '80s and '90s, MTV was a huge source of fascination and audio discovery. It was the edgy channel...

2019 was a huge, huge year for MMORPGs. I'm mainly talking about how both Dungeons and Dragons Online and Guild Wars 2 got capes...

At one point, I loved the Old Gods of World of Warcraft. At this point, they disappoint me. And since we're not that far away from the game's next raid that brings them into center focus again, it seems like it's time to talk about them a little bit and why the dang things have not just become so endlessly boring but so misused.

Rumors have been swirling this week about expansions to the Star Wars universe that could be a big deal for gaming. According to multiple...

As we did in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, today I'm going to recap our annual awards and other meta articles from the end of...

Every year, we dish out our "most anticipated" award, and you know what? It's almost never the same game twice, and sadly it's not...

There are a lot of problems with how people tend to use lore when it comes to MMOs. I've talked about one side of...

Social interactions are an important part of MMOs, but not every single MMO is hopping with players at all times. Sometimes you're alone, like...

If you’ve been following the Tamriel Infinium column at least since my own arrival at Massively OP, you may have noticed my propensity for...

There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...

This month, Bree cajoled me into giving Star Wars Galaxies Legends a try. The rogue server is only the second time I've ever played...

Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Camelot Unchained, Guild Wars, the Bless franchise, City of Heroes, LOTRO, SWG Legends, and The Witcher, with mailbag topics on CoH on console, PlanetSide's mismanagement, and a celebratory haiku that prompts some follow-up site discussion!

This first-ever edition of Choose My Portable Adventure was more hotly contested than I was expecting. By the narrowest of margins – six votes,...

It happens to every player in every MMO: Sooner or later, even our favorite games start to feel stale. It may be that you’re...

Let's talk about money. Everyone knows that you can go over to Star Citizen right now and drop thousands of dollars on stuff in the...

There's lots of lore to unpack in Final Fantasy XIV. Seriously, I could write a lot about it because the game sets up lots of...

Torchlight Frontiers is a game I've gradually been developing some genuine hype for - as has our team here at MOP, in light of...

With all of our awards, positive and negative, mostly behind us now, I want to reflect on something almost no one talked about at...

Despite being an adaption of Tad Williams' enormously popular sci-fi novels, the MMO Otherland was a flop in both of its incarnations. Mismanaged, underdeveloped,...

I've been saying it for years, but just because these are fictional virtual worlds doesn't mean that MMOs should be free from regulations and...