2022 eoty meta

Last year, I singled out Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons - then already on our horizon - as being worthy of the "best...

Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Surprise, which was awarded to the revival of Fallen Earth...

"Best crafting" has always been a hard pick for me as it's one of my core content magnets in an MMO, which tends to...

Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best PvP MMO, which was awarded to Albion Online last year. We...

Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's column keeping track of all the crowdfunding MMOs in our genre. Last year, the...

Holy cow, are we already wrapping up another year of Lord of the Rings Online? I've been writing this column since 2010, and I...

Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Worst MMO Business Model, which was awarded jointly to Star Citizen and...

Now that we're really counting down the clock on 2022, it's time for some well-deserved reflection. I always like to look back over the...

Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best MMO Business Model, which was awarded to Guild Wars 2 last...

Earlier this week, we dished out our "best MMO trend." Today, I want to talk about the worst trend, and really there are a...

Nobody can see the future, but it sure is fun guessing, and that's exactly what we're going to do for (to?) the MMO genre...

To say that Elite: Dangerous had a rough 2022 is putting it mildly (and pretty much dismisses the nuance this retrospective hopes to provide)....

Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Disappointment, which was awarded jointly to multiple underperforming new MMOs...

Every year we do an MMO predictions post full of obvious, not-so-obvious, and totally-out-there prognostication for the future of the MMO genre. And every...

Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best New MMO Class, which was awarded to Black Desert's Corsair class...

I might be biased - by which I mean I am definitely biased - but 2022 was a year of big stories and big...

Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best MMO Trend, which was awarded to the gaming industry's unionization efforts...

Last year, we noted that we considered but rejected a formal award for MMO fashion; we were worried it would wind up rewarding character-centric...

Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Blunder, which was awarded to the Activision-Blizzard/World of Warcraft clownshow...

This is one of my favorite end-of-the-year Daily Grinds because new zones are one of my favorite things in MMOs. I just never get...