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Perfect Ten: Tutorial topics every MMO really needs to cover
Tutorials are important in MMOs. No MMO has a great one, unfortunately. I don't just mean in the cases where returning players could use...
The Stream Team: Meeting the Molten Alliance in Guild Wars 2
MMORPGs are notorious for having folks run around helter skelter. (That and killing rats!) And that's exactly what Massively OP's MJ needs to do...
Choose My Adventure: Landing on a stable character in the original Guild Wars
Last week in Choose My Adventure, Nightfall proved to be the more suitable starting experience for classic Guild Wars. This week, the Dervish won...
Massively Overthinking: What were your three most-played MMOs in 2022?
Last year, we did a piece on what we expected our top three MMOs of 2022 to be. We'll do that again next week,...
Perfect Ten: Why it’s better than ever to be an MMO fan in 2023
Welcome to 2023! You probably didn't need that heads-up, but you're getting it even still. I'm quite excited about the year to come in...
The Stream Team: Starting Guild Wars 2’s Living World Season 1 for the first time
Now that Massively OP's MJ has finally completed Guild Wars 2's personal story, she's ready to dive into Living World Season 1. It's a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 405: Give me throne or give me liberty
Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty, Skull & Bones' delay, roadmaps for the EverQuest MMOs, and John Smedley's departure from Amazon, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on the Wizards of the Coast D&D mess and reimagining alts in MMOs.
Choose My Adventure: Nightfall might end up being the superior classic Guild Wars starting experience
I was pretty sure I was going to go into Factions after last week's Choose My Adventure, but a final surge in voting saw...
The MOP Up: Final Fantasy Record Keeper meets its finality
We're a little late to the party on this, but friend of the site Connor pointed out that Square Enix shut down yet another...
One Shots: Looking forward to a rainy day
Is there anything as agonizingly tantalizing as receiving a gift that's for a very specific situation? You can't wait to use it, but it...
The Stream Team: Celebrating the Year of the Bunny in Guild Wars 2
It takes 12 long years to come around, but Massively OP's MJ finally gets to celebrate the year of the bunny! And she'll be...
Aion EU promises danger and treasure in its Secret Hellpath event
I'm not a plucky treasure hunter, so perhaps my point of view is skewed towards the boring, but if a place called the Secret...
Lineage II launches several events across all three versions of the ARPG
The three flavors of Lineage II - that is to say the original game, Aden, and Classic - are all awash with events starting...
City of Heroes rogue server Rebirth preps travel power revamp for I5 Clockstoppers
City of Heroes rogue server Rebirth has been teasing its Issue 5: Clockstoppers release since at least last week, when it dropped a feature...
Blade & Soul celebrates seven years and the new year in latest update
Blade & Soul is throwing a party and you're invited. The game's latest update is hosting several celebratory events to mark the game's seventh...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2023
Years ago, I did the first version of this yearly column in a one-off format in the middle of the year just because I...
Wayfinder’s second PC test and first PlayStation test kick off next week
Earlier this week, we reported that the newly introduced Wayfinder was already in the middle of its first wave of testing with another one...
Guild Wars 2’s Lunar New Year festival is live for the Year of the Rabbit
Lunar New Year doesn't technically begin until January 22nd, but try telling that to the MMO genre, which seldom misses an opportunity to party...
Blade & Soul details the celebratory events arriving with its January 11 update
Blade & Soul is in a very celebratory mood with its upcoming January 11th patch, marking the game's seventh anniversary and the start of...
Choose My Adventure: How good advice led to some minor comfort with Classic Guild Wars
I have to admit, the Choose My Adventure voting did not fall the way I had expected it to last week. Apparently folks were...
