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Massively Overthinking: What keeps you from playing mobile MMOs?
Earlier this week, we wrote about Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss' IPO and its grand plans for the future - among them, four additional...
Guild Wars 2 DPS meter creator adds build templates to popular arcdps mod
If you have min-maxer friends in Guild Wars 2 as I do, you probably already know about arcdps, a player-designed mod that originally merely...
Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar in summation
All the time through playing Shroud of the Avatar, I found myself wanting to like the game a lot more than I did. And...
Perfect Ten: The 10 tiers of MMORPG lore
In which we discuss varying levels of MMO lore effort and Eliot admits he doesn't remember the names of Pac-Man's ghosties.
Guild Wars 2 raids won’t be getting more difficulty options in Path of Fire ‘at this time’
There are new forums for Guild Wars 2, which means that one of the first development posts can be another reminder that the developers...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 135: PAX in the P.M.
Justin, Bree, and MJ discuss PAX West, Secret World Legends, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, EverQuest II, Destiny 2, WoW, ArcheAge, and WildStar, plus a mailbag question on Destiny and raiding.
Guild Wars 2 rolls out brand-new forums, grants amnesty to past ne’er-do-wells
Guild Wars 2's forums have just gotten a massive facelift with all the standard bits and bobs you'd want from a forum in 2017:...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you played an MMO ‘wrong’?
Over the weekend, MMO blogger and Massively OP frequenter Wolfyseyes posted what I thought was a fantastic piece on playing MMOs "wrong." Eschewing other...
One Shots: I think I’m turning Japanese
I've got your picture of me and you
You wrote "I love you," I love you too
I sit there staring and there's nothing...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMOs of 2017’s PAX West
PAX West 2017 has come and gone, and though MJ is still feverishly working on her last few articles, we wanted to pause a...
Leaderboard: Are you playing Destiny 2?
I was super worried about losing my whole guild to Destiny 2's PC beta last week, but after the beta fling, they're back to...
Global Chat: Overwatch’s stalled story
With all of the attention, fandom, e-sports, and development given to Blizzard's Overwatch, have you ever suspected that the team shooter has a critical...
Guild Wars 2 is running another Path of Fire stress test on Thursday
Quick show of hands, who in the audience would like to break the Guild Wars 2 servers? Well, that's... that's a lot of hands,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 134: You are my… Destiny
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, DDO, Guild Wars 2, Wander, ARK, Funcom, Destiny 2, Cloud Pirates, Perpetuum, EVE Lifeblood, Villagers & Heroes, and helping out with Harvey, with mailbag questions on favorite MMO moments and finding a good guild.
Guild Wars 2 on how Path of Fire is the most ‘complex’ story ANet’s done
Even if you're a Guild Wars lore fan whose favorite word is "Cantha," it's likely that you've lost a bit of the story along...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Getting to grips with Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire mounts
ArenaNet dedicated last week to all things mounts, so it stands to reason that I'd simply have to provide you with a run-down of...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG is the worst at balancing difficulty?
Justin's LOTRO Legendarium article on whether or not Mordor is too difficult struck a chord wth me. "I do not envy devs and their...
The Daily Grind: What MMOs do you wish would come to Steam?
I was poking through my Steam library this weekend hunting for an old game I wanted to install to see whether it still worked...
The MOP Up: Warframe battles cancer (September 3, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Global Chat: Has No Man’s Sky finally arrived as a full-featured game?
It's been a year since the disastrous and controversial launch of No Man's Sky, a game with failings that included, among many others, a...
