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Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2024?

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It's pretty much a given that every year when we announce our MMO of the year, someone's going to hop into the comments and...

Throne & Liberty’s latest update extends Startree Solstice quests, teases next battle pass

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Throne & Liberty is back in action after the holidays with a fresh update that brings the game to 1.12.0. Servers went down at...

The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming starts its new year with some New World dungeons

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MOP's Chris and MJ are coming back together for some more Backseat Streaming! And what better way to start the new year off with...

End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2025 and beyond

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As we turn the page on another fascinating year of MMORPG history, we cross into fresh territory. What lies ahead? Surprises, disappointments, and endless...

Massively OP Podcast: The 500th episode and writer roundtable

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Justin, Bree, Chris, and Eliot host the annual roundtable and 500th episode of the show since the MOP reboot in 2015; they discuss the history of the podcast, fave MMOs from 2024, most anticipated games for 2025, highlights of MOP's awards series, the state of the site, and mailbag topics on Discord and MMO history podcasts.

Fight or Kite: The PvP MMOs we’re watching in 2025

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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...

One Shots: Pretty please give me those pretty spaceships

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It's a new year of community screenshots here at One Shots Incorporated (that's right, we're now a soulless corporation with algorithms and AI and...

Throne and Liberty offers a guide to its recently added rune system

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You would be forgiven for thinking that a system that's been in an MMO for just about a month would be pretty well understood...
Here we are again.

End-of-year Eleven: The best value MMOs at the top of 2025

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So here we are again, at the transition for another year, and let me tell you that I am glad this column went a...
Not cool!

Vague Patch Notes: How Throne and Liberty actually got my attention

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Leading up to the release of Throne and Liberty, I was not particularly enthusiastic about the game's prospects on a whole. The reasons for...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 499: The holiday mailbag explosion

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Justin and Bree deliver the traditional MMO mailbag show, answering your questions about early access, mediocre MMOs, crafting, returning to games, screenshots, fresh start servers, inventory, and more.

Choose My Adventure: All of the MMOs you made us play in 2024

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This past year was full of ups and downs. You could arguably say that about any year, sure, but I felt it much more...
Shock, awe.

Wisdom of Nym: The highs – and lows – of Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 7.15 stories

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Technically, Final Fantasy XIV's patch 7.15 contains one piece of ongoing content... insofar as you're going to keep turning in custom deliveries to Nitowikwe...

The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMORPG trend of 2024?

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Layoffs. OK, that one's a gimmie - and it hurts a lot more than MMORPGs. So let me pitch another one: A bunch of MMOs either...
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The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2’s community shows off amazing player housing creations

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It's no surprise that Guild Wars 2 players are thrilled to be interior decorators, thanks to this year's player housing system. And in a...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025

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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...

New World’s PvP seasonal worlds and season 7 launch January 21

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At the end of November, Amazon finally released a roadmap for New World, revealing its plan to launch the PvP-themed season 7 early in...

Amazon already greenlit a second season of its videogame-themed Secret Level series

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We've given two takes on Amazon's Secret Level TV series so far, specifically on the New World episode, as it was the core MMORPG...

Lost Ark’s Winter Soloist update is live with a solo mode expansion and the new ‘destined protection’ system

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Lost Ark's big winter update, Winter Soloist, is officially here today, and that's not a reference to music: It's the introduction to an infusion...
Riders

End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024

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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...

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