2024 eoty
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO goals and resolutions for 2025
Every year when we post this traditional Massively Overthinking roundtable, at least one person on staff dithers because not every one does "resolutions." We...
End-of-year Eleven: The best value MMOs at the top of 2025
So here we are again, at the transition for another year, and let me tell you that I am glad this column went a...
The Daily Grind: What would you really like to be wrong about in the MMO space in 2025?
It was a late-arriving announcement in 2024 that The Elder Scrolls Online would blow up its content cadence and suddenly stop providing nearly as...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2024
In just another month or two, we're coming up on MOP's independence day, marking 10 years since we went indie, and nowhere is that...
Happy New Year to all the uplifting things in MMOs, 2024 edition
So last night, as is tradition, we posted our list of all the reasons we can't have nice things in MMOs and torched them...
Goodbye to all the reasons we can’t have nice things in MMOs, 2024 edition
Listen, I'm not going to pretend 2024 was great. It wasn't great in the real world, and it wasn't great in the games industry...
Choose My Adventure: All of the MMOs you made us play in 2024
This past year was full of ups and downs. You could arguably say that about any year, sure, but I felt it much more...
The great and majestic One Shots Awards of 2024
Forget all of those other Massively OP awards you've seen cross your desktop for the past few weeks -- we all know that there's only...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2024
Welcome to a Very Special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where - most weeks - we keep track of the...
Vague Patch Notes: My favorite five MMO columns of the year edition
So I don't usually do these for a couple reasons. For starters, they always feel kind of like self-promotion, an activity that I am...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMO expansions of 2024
Around the Massively OP office, the common consensus is that 2024 ended up being the Year of the MMO Expansion. After all, we got...
A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2024
If you've been reading MassivelyOP for a while, you probably know that we like science kind of a lot around here, and there's no...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives, 2024 edition
While MMORPGs constitute a shifting, ever-evolving market, their history remains surprisingly evergreen. That's what history is: Facts and stories stamped and preserved for our...
The MassivelyOP Podcast in review, 2024 edition
The MassivelyOP Podcast is hitting one heck of a milestone in just a few more weeks: We'll have made it to 500 shows since...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Casually Classic: Putting a cap on WoW Classic’s crazy 2024 run
While it got overshadowed by World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary this year, WoW Classic's fifth birthday was a thing that happened as well. It...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back at LOTRO’s run in 2024
How do we sum up the entire year of Lord of the Rings Online? That's always a hard task, but if I had to...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2024
You know, this traditional end-of-the-year roundtable shouldn't be a thing. We've been doing this such a long time and getting so much coverage on...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you see yourself trying in 2025?
I have friends who are super excited for Path of Exile 2 but have not yet picked up the game. Not because they don't...