Opinion

A few weeks back, I was thinking about classic Star Wars Galaxies and the game's training system. While you could gain experience by doing...

For this week's edition of the MMO Cartographer, I have pulled Aura Kingdom out of my magical bag of maps. It is a bright,...

It feels like whenever people talk about parts of old MMOs that aren't holding up as well, we fall back on the graphics. Some...

It's a pretty common exercise in our circles to speculate on what a sequel to World of Warcraft would look like. Oh, it'll never,...

Part of the holy mission of the Game Archaeologist is to ferret out the roots of history that ultimately led to MMORPGs as we...

We all do it. We're going along, adventuring in a virtual world, when we see an enemy approaching that makes us want to take...

There are some MMO stories that are just unbelievable. They are so warped convoluted and confusing that we think there's no possible way it...

One of my favorite idioms is "dead as a doornail." It always reminds me of the time I got sent out of my 10th...

MOP reader Tanek recently pointed us to a thread on Lord of the Rings Online forums where players have been debating the merits of...

So here's the thing about Elder Scrolls games: Most of them start out with the same hook. From Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim, you...

Last week, just as the FTC's video games monetization abuse investigation got underway, the ESA announced that many of the major and minor games...

One could certainly argue that Guild Wars 2’s primary focus is that of a PvE, story driven game. Hell, I’d make that argument. Yet,...

The other night, I was reading the Final Fantasy XIV subreddit and came across that gem of all gems for people who love badly...

When an MMO gets big enough, you get its anti-fandom. This is not the same as people who don't particularly like a game; some...

One of the hallmarks of our genre is the inherent heartbreak it's capable of creating within us. Whether we're doing a corpse run in...

In Path of Exile, don't despair if you feel like a beginner for a while -- the more you play, the deeper it gets....

Here at Massively Overpowered, we learn about some games, folks. We learn a whole lot about a whole lot of games! We know MMOs....

The other day we posted about how Ship of Heroes is going to include a randomizer in its character creator, which pleased me. I...

Justin and Bree discuss WoW and WoW Classic, LOTRO, Square Enix, Aion, DCUO, and Legends of Aria, with adventures in Chronicles of Spellborn, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on newbie onboarding and MMO end-of-life strategy.

You ever uninstall a game after a while, forget that you did so, then see it on your Steam library, wonder why it’s not...