Opinion

Opinion pieces are by definition neither neutral nor subjective. Massively Overpowered’s writers’ editorials reflect their own opinions, not necessarily the opinions of the site or company. [Follow this category’s RSS feed]

Infinite Crisis

The Daily Grind: What’s your preferred MOBA class?

63
The strangest thing has been happening to me here lately. I... I think I'm becoming a MOBA fan. It's not that I had anything...

EVE Evolved: Four lessons sandbox MMOs can learn from EVE

112
The past few years have seen a resurgence of support for sandbox MMOs, both of the trying-to-be-minecraft creative kind and the hardcore nuke-it-from orbit...
You have clearly been preparing for this day.

The Daily Grind: How long do you have your subscriptions set up for?

77
I had not put my Final Fantasy XIV account on anything more extended than month-by-month billing for the longest time. Which is kind of...

LOTRO Legendarium: Why you need to read the books if you play the game

48
While my Kindle is loaded with so many new books I've yet to read that I really should take a few months off to...

The Daily Grind: Do you ever want to change your character’s race?

95
We all whine and complain about MMO cash shop offerings, but you know what's one item that I'm always glad to see? A race...
Ascent

Ascent is MMO space simming done right

32
My favorite thing about Ascent: The Space Game is its planetary rotation. It's a small thing, granted, but the first time I sat still...

The Soapbox: The misguided quest for MMO stickiness

58
This guest Soapbox was originally commissioned in 2015 through Massively Overpowered's Kickstarter campaign and is authored by Tyler F.M. Edwards, who blogs at www.superior-realities.com....

Massively Overthinking: Crowd control in MMORPGs

85
Today's Kickstarter-begotten Massively Overthinking question arrives from donor Ravenwynd, who writes, I love control type characters in mmos. City of Heroes' Mind Controller could lock down...

10 ways MMOs have changed the real world for the better

31
Are MMOs pointless time-wasters, the bread and circuses of the modern era, or do they make positive, meaningful contributions to the real world? Well,...
ArcheAge

The Daily Grind: What’s the last non-combat activity you did in an MMO?

146
It's no secret that today's MMOs focus almost exclusively on combat. Oh sure, some of them have rudimentary crafting, trading, and housing minigames, but...

Choose My Adventure: Torchlight, too

15
March is but a memory. April is here. And while a new month certainly brings new things to Choose My Adventure, we've got just...

Leaderboard: Have you talked someone out of buying a game you like?

49
So here's something that doesn't happen very often: I talked a friend out of buying Star Citizen's Vanguard LTI concept. In the past I've...

Ask Mo: Jobs in the MMO industry, jobs in MMOs

96
Today, we're reintroducing our general MMO advice column, here named Ask Mo: the column where you ask Mo questions, and he... lets me answer them for...

The Daily Grind: Would you play a stripped-down mobile version of your favorite MMO?

108
The (as of yet unspecified) plans to create a mobile version of Final Fantasy XI touches on a sore subject for me: the lack...

Jukebox Heroes: Seven MMOs with player music systems

30
A few weeks ago I asked the Massively Overpowered community if all MMOs should come with player music systems. In my opinion, at least,...

Three Elder Scrolls Online mods you shouldn’t play without

198
If you have not jumped into Elder Scrolls Online yet, you should really give it a shot. With its latest update and B2P transition, it's...
Finite interest.

The Daily Grind: Have you tried Infinite Crisis?

78
Infinite Crisis came out on Steam last week, which was bad timing for me. I left town for the weekend and I didn't get to...

Sword and Bored: Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof!

103
Realizing that open PvP servers are wretched hives of scum and villainy, Mo decides to reroll.
Myth: Lalafell have to be irritating cutesy-boop piles of crap.

Wisdom of Nym: The fall in Final Fantasy XIV

36
There is a crack in the foundation of Eorzea's defenders, and it's been there for a while. For all of Final Fantasy XIV's operation, we've...
You look very cold, ma'am.

The Daily Grind: What stupid mistake do you keep making in an MMO?

207
In a lot of games, the E key defaults to use/interact/whatever. Get near a thing, press E, you do what you need to do....