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Massively on the Go: Niantic ditching Pokemon Go’s COVID benefits was a dangerous mistake
Recently I was forced into isolation since an untrustworthy family member hid COVID symptoms from the household and our vaccinated guests who were going...
Perfect Ten: The top 10 non-traditional MMO fantasy races
Elves. Dwarves. Humans. Halflings. Gnomes. Hobbits. Dark elves. High elves. Half-elves. Wood elves. Keebler elves. Elvish impersonators.
Are you as tired as I am of...
The Repopulation team recreated over 1100 pieces of furniture from earlier builds
Let's be honest, it's never a good sign that I forget about an MMO until I see a developer tweet about it, but in...
Stick and Rudder: Elite Dangerous Odyssey is not bad, but it is broken
All right. I get it. I understand. The Elite: Dangerous community is pretty rancorous right now, and I can't say that I blame them....
The Repopulation talks up item and crafting updates, adds new signs and buildings, and fixes mission bugs
The April update post for in-development sci-fi sandbox MMORPG The Repopulation is out, and it has a variety of things to discuss, leading off...
The Repopulation patches, plans, and prepares for partial wipes
The Repopulation's long and difficult road in reclaiming excitement and an actual population will be paved with meaningful patches and continued development - or...
Vague Patch Notes: What makes MMO leveling feel good?
A shine of light, a sound effect, a screen graphic. Sometimes you get more fanfare than elsewhere. In Final Fantasy XIV, the game's victory fanfare...
The Repopulation’s latest alpha patch touches on inventory and optimization
It seems strange now, but five or six years ago, The Repopulation was a much-wanted Kickstarted MMORPG, with visual and design roots in sandboxes...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2020
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's weekly and sometimes biweekly recap of the big news in crowdfunded MMOs. If you're...
The Repopulation further talks up inventory and storage refinements, announces plans for mini-wipes
Yup, it's another update post from The Repopulation all about inventory. Inventories are now being handled by the same backend system, removing duplicates and...
Choose My Adventure: Simply skipping through quests small and large in Fallout 76
I'm not sure that this week has fully inured me to Fallout 76, but I will say that things were starting to come together...
The Repopulation talks up its new inventory system and plans to remove character model bones
The Repopulation closed out its October updates with talk of containers and bones, which seems thematically appropriate, except the containers in question are related...
WoW Factor: The stuff I’m genuinely excited for in World of Warcraft Shadowlands
For the first time in the past three expansions, I am not in the beta for World of Warcraft's next expansion. This is fine. It's...
The Repopulation promises new skills, system revamps, and more in its latest roadmap
A lot of the progress made in development of The Repopulation is pretty granular: bug fixes here, some greybox builds replaced there, things of...
The Repopulation replaces whiteboxes with art and improves harvesting regions
The May/June update from The Repopulation is available for fans to read through and it's once more chock full of steady yet incremental progress...
Massively Overthinking: The oldest MMORPGs we still play
When I was still a teenager in my earliest MMOs, the trend in the communities I ran in was to play MMOs sequentially, due...
The Repopulation continues to squash bugs and plans to add water soon
There's been yet another bug-crushing update made to The Repopulation, which is to be expected for a game still in an alpha state. This...
One Shots: Fine, who needs you, planet?
When a planet has stiffed you one too many times and yanked you around, it's time to put it at your back and head...
The Repopulation works through an annoying crash issue and begins filling out whitebox areas
The April update from The Repopulation notes some pretty important progress. The latest build has addressed a persistent 02 crash issue with the help...
Massively Overthinking: How could MMOs combat endgame rushing?
Rushers, content locusts, world-firsters: Whatever you want to call them, these folks are both a boon and a bane for MMORPGs. They buy the...
