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I guess I want to preface today's discussion by acknowledging that there are a lot of terrific developers and teams out there in the industry today. These people put in a lot of thankless work and have to deal with us finicky gamers, and I think that entitles them to all sorts of exclusive medals. That said, nobody's perfect, and...

Every other week here at Massively OP you might see a post go up promoting the Battle Bards podcast. While not an official podcast of the site, per se, the fact that (a) it's MMO related and (b) produced by yours truly earns it a bit of a signal boost. If you're not acquainted with it, Battle Bards is a...

Massively OP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for best article joke (almost) nobody got. And the winner is...

Boxes and packages piled high... what does that make you think of? Trove! The voxel -based whimsical game is the perfect compliment to Christmas Day for Massively OP's MJ, and she's going to spend time celebrating in Snowfest. There's a little present ally and a new mount ot earn for completing the new adventures. Tune in live at 4:00...

Justin and Bree pore over the mail bag to answer questions on WoW, the state of MOP, future columns, favorite MMO music, MMO communities, lockbox RNG, MMO sunsets, open dungeons, and LitRPG.

We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into 2019! MMO company Daybreak stunned the entire gaming industry in April, absurdly telling little old Massively OP that Columbus Nova, the company Daybreak claimed had purchased it in 2015, had in fact never been owned by said company. Compounding...

Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2018 awards continue today with our award for Best MMO Event, which is sort of a new category for us this year. Previously, we'd doled out awards for best holiday event - those went to Lord of the Rings Online last year and The Secret World the year before - but we wanted to expand the category...

Massively OP's long-running Stream Team, unquestionably captained by MJ and her sidekicks Larry and Andrew, got a welcome surprise this year: Our newest writer, Chris Neal, also has a penchant for streaming! Our little crew teamed up for hundreds of streams this year, some old and some new, providing both stalwart community members and passing looky-loos with an interactive look...

One of the informal award type articles we've done every year for the last couple of years is this one: the one sussing out the best player community in the genre. As we've noted, most gamers assume smaller games where players interact with each other and the devs on the regular - like Lord of the Rings Online - tend to win...

Massively OP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for best feel-good moment for the MMO genre. And the winner is...