2024 eoty listicle
Lawful Neutral: All the big MMO-related law stories from 2024, from Palworld to Blizzard
2024 was another quiet year on the gaming legal front. I think various AI dramas and associated legislative hand-wringing sucked all the air out...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2025
I am the sort of person who derives no small amount of ongoing satisfaction from the idea that I have had an influence upon...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2024
Welcome to the worst article I have to write every year. I mean, nobody is really making me do it. But I still feel...
End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2025 and beyond
As we turn the page on another fascinating year of MMORPG history, we cross into fresh territory. What lies ahead? Surprises, disappointments, and endless...
Fight or Kite: The PvP MMOs we’re watching in 2025
Today we arrive at the first Fight or Kite column of the newest quarter of the century, and while I can’t speak for other...
The best MassivelyOP MMO live streams of 2024
Thanks to the efforts of MOP's MJ and MOP's Chris - sometimes MOP's Larry too! - the MassivelyOP stream Team puts out around 500...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2024
I have not had a good 2024. I have, in fact, had the absolute opposite of that. I feel like I exist now through...
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMORPGs going into 2025
One of the biggest factors when choosing a potential MMO to enjoy is how "healthy" it is. In other words, is the online game...
Perfect Ten: 2024’s MMO soundtrack themes ranked from worst to best
Try not to whip your head around all suspicious-like to check out the past 10 months, but 2024 has been a bonanza for MMO...
