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Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Trend of the Year

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best MMO trend of 2015. Last year, we chose sandbox and social gameplay as the awardee...
Appreciable?

The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio maintains the best community presence?

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Last week, when the Massively staff was debating internally which MMO company deserved our best MMO studio of 2015 award, I argued that overseas studios...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Likely to Flop

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our most likely to flop in 2016 and beyond award. Last year, Star Citizen took home this dishonor, leading to...
Bear bomb!

The Daily Grind: What MMO has the best character hairstyles?

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We talk a lot about systems for changing the look of what your character is wearing, but what we don't talk about nearly enough...

Jukebox Heroes: A very merry Christmas MMO mix

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Now that we're into the thick of December, I've given myself permission to finally turn the radio station over to the all-Christmas-all-the-time channel for...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Pseudo-MMO of the Year

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best pseudo-MMO of the year. The games that populate this category are games that we'd usually cover...

Second impressions of Trion’s Devilian: The pros and cons

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Some of you might recall that this past month, my family welcomed a new addition to its household. With a newborn around once more, I'm...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best wardrobe system?

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I think about MMO fashion a lot because I'm a weird person who doesn't get invited to a lot of parties (or maybe it's...
Do I look like a patient cow?

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the World of Warcraft fan

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Look, I know what you're thinking, and I'm sorry to say there's not much to be done. As great a gift as it would...

Leaderboard: What’s the most overrated MMO?

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In the comments of our award post for Most Underrated MMO of 2015, Massively OP commenter Tongle demanded an equivalent counterpart. Can we get a...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: The 10 best free-to-play MMORPGs

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You know one of the reasons I like writing this column? Because one of these days I'm going to be able to make a...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest Disappointment of 2015

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the biggest MMO disappointment of 2015. Last year, we gave this "award" to WildStar and ArcheAge in...

Massively Overthinking: MMO predictions for 2016

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Now that we've all had a good laugh at the things we got wrong and marveled at the things we got right in last...

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for The Secret World and Funcom fan

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It's the holidays, and in the spirit of giving, I am going I'm going to give you ideas -- for gifts! Instead of waxing...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best MMO studio of the year. Last year's award was won by SOE, you'll recall, a...
Getting carded.

The Daily Grind: Will you try Epic’s Paragon MOBA?

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I hadn't heard of Paragon before last weekend, but after watching the brief gameplay clip that Epic released to tease its upcoming MOBA, I'm...

Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s 2015 report card

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I’ve never had a chance to do an annual "report card" like this for Elder Scrolls Online because I left the game by the time that...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Improved MMO

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the most improved MMO of 2015. All MMOs, regardless of release date, were eligible for this award,...

The Daily Grind: What MMOs would you recommend to others?

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One of the most common questions I see floated out on Reddit, forums, and Twitter in relation to MMOs is, "What should I play?"...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 41: Trove talk

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Justin and Bree discuss GW2 PvP, RIFT, Path of Exile, SWTOR, The Secret World, Marvel Heroes, and LOTRO, plus mailbag questions on Blade & Soul localization and a chat with Trove's lead dev.

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