Opinion

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Battle Bards Episode 144: Colors of the rainbow

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Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet: Combined, these forces create the awesome power of Roy G. Biv — otherwise known as the...

The Survivalist: What ever happened to the smaller survival sandbox MMOs?

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With big name survival games getting ignored developmentally, you have to wonder what's been going on with the smaller titles. After all, we've got...
Can't wait to see what's next here?

The Daily Grind: What upcoming MMO do you want to be good, even if it might not be?

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I'm excited about Peria Chronicles. This is not a secret. I'm also excited for Caravan Stories. And yet in both cases these games could be awful, and...

Jukebox Heroes: The best of Trickster Online’s soundtrack

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When going on musical expeditions, I get the most excited when I open up a folder of tracks from lesser-known MMORPGs. I think that's...

Lawful Neutral: What DMCA exemption victories really mean for MMO preservation

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You might remember back in October, we covered how the US Library of Congress granted expanded DMCA exceptions for preserving online games. The Library...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever regretted buying something in an MMO?

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I absolutely hate buyer's regret. If I could go back and slap myself when I was about to press the "buy now" button on...

Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes satisfies that Star Wars fix, but there’s a catch

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For the last few weeks, my other job has either taken away my game time or just sucked the energy out of me so...
The vista

First impressions: World of Warcraft Classic is exactly what it says on the tin

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The simplest analogy I can think of for World of Warcraft: Classic is being served a breakfast of toasted plain white bread with a...
That is definitely a thing.

The Daily Grind: Which studio should be running your MMO?

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It continues to sadden my heart to see RIFT -- and the rest of the Trion Worlds library -- limp on under the supervision...

Massively Overthinking: Unpopular MMORPG opinions

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Unpopular opinions: We all have them. In fact we have so many that it's a straight up meme. This week's Massively Overthinking is one...

Into the Super-verse: Getting to know City of Heroes all over again

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It has been well over a decade since I played City of Heroes with any regularity, and yet when I saw that familiar loading...
This is not hard to do.

WoW Factor: Thoughts on the impending arrival of WoW Classic

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So now we have a date at the end of August for World of Warcraft: Classic. That's actually a lot later than I had expected, but...
Yo.

The Daily Grind: Do you have any hope left for Anthem?

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I feel faintly as if I owe Bree an apology. When I volunteered to do our first impressions piece on Anthem, it was actually a...

Perfect Ten: The 10 most adorable MMORPGs ever

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We all like to think of ourselves as cultured and deep individuals who routinely calculate square roots and recite Gilbert and Sullivan at dinner...

The Daily Grind: Do you think WoW Classic is destined for greatness or utterly doomed?

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Since the formal announcement this week that WoW Classic is launching in August, I've seen multiple mainstream games journos opine that, well, you think...
Find the path.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 220: Everybody gets a dragon!

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Justin and Bree discuss City of Heroes, lockboxes, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars 2, RIFT, ZeniMax, and New World, with a mailbag question about epic MMO character creators.

Choose My Adventure: The thrilling escapades of a Star Wars: The Old Republic sniper

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I have to say, I've made a really good choice this month. Yes, I used the word "good" to describe something Star Wars: The...

Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s War Eternal

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After playing through Guild Wars 2's new Living World episode, War Eternal, which is live today, I am still speechless. This is, in my...

The Daily Grind: Do you still want a Game of Thrones MMORPG?

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I'm sure that at some point in the last 4200 or so Daily Grinds we've done on Massively OP and Massively-that-was over these many...

EVE Evolved: What really sets Russian EVE players apart?

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One of the most interesting things about EVE Online is the fact that its single shard server forces players from different countries and cultures...

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