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Massively Overthinking: The MMOs without player housing in 2024
Last week, Guild Wars 2 became the latest western MMORPG to finally add proper housing, with pages lifted straight out of Wildstar and RIFT....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 482: The war within two expansion launches
Justin, Bree, and Colin discuss Guild Wars 2 Janthir Wilds, World of Warcraft The War Within, Elder Scrolls Online's U43, DDO's Myth Drannor, Dune Awakening, and Path of Exile 2.
Flameseeker Chronicles: 10 easy Guild Wars 2 builds for solo play in 2024’s Janthir Wilds
While most MMORPGs offer a variety of ways to play a character, Guild Wars 2 offers a huge variety of builds for each of...
The Stream Team: Journey to an Unknown Territory in Guild Wars 2
Having "just" returned from the Astral Ward, Massively OP's MJ was quickly invited to a new Tyrian Alliance meeting to address the rifts in...
Aion Classic EU promises a new PvP map and two endgame instances in Dominance update
Aion Classic EU has been cranking out updates all year - and it's got at least one more in store for 2024. Gameforge announced...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on Final Fantasy XIV’s Beastmaster
We currently know very little about Final Fantasy XIV's Beastmaster. We know that it's going to be coming at some point during the Dawntrail...
Global Chat: Recapping World of Warcraft’s Pandaria Remix
With Pandaria Remix now officially over and done in World of Warcraft, it's time to move on... right after some post-mortem analysis, of course....
One Shots: Cue techno chocobo theme
When I drive around and look at the sea of boring cars with mostly the same shapes in the same four colors, I can...
NCsoft Q2 2024: NCsoft says it’s not shifting focus away from MMORPGs
In the chaos of August financial releases and Gamescom, we overlooked NCsoft's Q2 2024 financial release, so we're tackling it now. Unfortunately, it's not...
Massively Overthinking: Frames of reference in MMORPGs
Last week on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a heated discussion about terminology in MMORPGs (terminology we'll probably talk about in a separate thread...
Vague Patch Notes: The problem with numbers in MMORPGs
I recently saw a post on the official World of Warcraft forums noting that if not for the game's almost infamous level squish, players...
Perfect Ten: The best MMOs from the years before we started counting
You know what bothers me? Our annual awards recap. We always list all of the games that we've given awards to in the past,...
The Stream Team: Entering Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds
What? Massively OP's MJ gets to explore a new land in Guild Wars 2 on launch day? Is the MMOverse coming to an end?!...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 481: Pre-Gamescom MMO mini podcast
In this mini episode, Bree runs down Throne & Liberty's delay, New World's Aeternum beta, Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds launch, the Richard Garriott Ultima Online rumor, the state of Ultima Online New Legacy, Nightingale's Realms Rebuilt, the record-setting SWG Legends' SOEclipse event, and the approach of Gamescom.
Choose My Adventure: Fractured Online starts off unremarkably but comfortably
I always start off with a lot of concern whenever I enter a sandbox MMORPG for Choose My Adventure. Mostly because these games are...
Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds expansion officially launches with player housing today
Fellow MMO housing fans, furbish up your design skills because we're going to Janthir Wilds today.
Yes, Guild Wars 2's latest expansion officially rolls out...
Battle Bards Episode 233: Epic fight music
For Battle Bards’ penultimate episode, Syp and Syl explore some EPIC battle music across many MMOs. After all, if we’re going to go out...
Amazon and NCsoft delay Throne and Liberty to October 1 for more progression retooling
Hope you didn't have your heart set on a September 17th launch for Throne and Liberty because Amazon and NCsoft just delayed it again....
Ship of Heroes’ beta now has 30 costume auras for player customization
Like a lot of folks, I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with particle effects. On my superhero toons, I love them; they're...
Storyboard: Roleplaying in MMORPGs is much more common than you think
Back around the time when the game's first expansion was a going concern, there was a post on the World of Warcraft forums about...
