Perfect Ten: Combat-free MMOs
If there's one thing that always, always goes with MMOs, it's combat. I mean, we can't be a hero without killing something, right? We...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite Elder Scrolls Online race?
I'm looking forward to some Elder Scrolls Online this month, but I may not use my max-level character. His guild is gone, and frankly...
Choose My Adventure: Path of Marvel
In last week's Choose My Adventure, we learned a few magic spells and set off to conquer a tiny portion of Diablo III's hellish...
Leaderboard: Are you playing Elder Scrolls Online this week?
Last week I patched up Elder Scrolls Online. Remember? We chatted about how the game's launcher is an expletive that rhymes with kitty. Over...
Working As Intended: Six things I expect from serious MMO PvP
With PvP-encrusted MMORPGs like Camelot Unchained, Crowfall, and even Revival on the genre's horizon, I have a glimmer of hope that the future of MMO...
The Daily Grind: Were you playing MMOs 16 years ago?
This week, EverQuest is celebrating its 16th anniversary. That's right: It was all the way back on March 16th, 1999, that the seminal title...
Jukebox Heroes: EverQuest Online Adventures
From birth until its ignoble death, EverQuest Online Adventures always lived in the shadow of the EverQuest franchise's wing. As a chunky-looking subscription game on...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 6
Justin and Bree discuss The Secret World's nerf, ArcheAge, BlizzCon 2015, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, Crowfall, and SWTOR, with mailbag questions on playstyle focus, podcasting, and WoW tokens.
Tamriel Infinium: Five reasons to return to Elder Scrolls Online
Gamers rarely give an MMO a second chance. Far too often, a game bears forever the impression it earned the first time we played it. When...
Final Fantasy XI will hold a press conference on the future, but what will it say?
Final Fantasy XI feels a bit neglected with all of the hype surrounding Final Fantasy XIV's expansion, doesn't it? That's probably part of the...
The Daily Grind: Does Guild Wars 2 need mounts?
Let me stop you right there: Yes, I know that Guild Wars 2 kinda has mounts. It has a ridable broom and a flying...
Sword and Bored: Health buff
Mo gets a bright idea when he realizes that MMORPG food inexplicably restores health -- and lots of it.
Wisdom of Nym: The end of Final Fantasy XIV’s 2.X cycle
The last part of Final Fantasy XIV's pre-expansion storyline is going live on March 31st. That's about two weeks away. And while you'll be...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO was better than you expected?
I've been dabbling in Ascent: The Space Game here lately, even though I keep telling myself that I'm done with early access titles. It's...
MMO Mechanics: Navigating fast-travel systems
I'm delighted to resurrect the column that brought me to Massively-that-was, MMO Mechanics, for the ravenous readers of MOP. The column focused on the...
The Daily Grind: What’s Funcom’s secret project?
When Funcom's Joel Bylos casually announced this week that he was moving on from his role as game director of The Secret World to...
The Game Archaeologist: Ten more facts of EverQuest life circa 1999
A couple of weeks ago I shared with you several stories from EverQuest veterans about what life in the game was like back then....
The Daily Grind: When’s the last time an MMO made you laugh?
There are few things that I love more in gaming than to have a genuine laugh-out-loud moment. Maybe something silly and stupid happens in...
Lost Continent: In which we race ArcheAge tractors for money
So ArcheAge got five additional levels and a dungeon called The Library this week. To which I say, whoop-tee-funking-doo! Don't get me wrong --...
The Daily Grind: What constitutes an ‘action combat MMO’?
In the course of organizing MOP's new tag database, I found myself looking for input on games to include in the "action combat" tab. I had...
