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Classic Guild Wars 1’s December patches are apparently still causing lag and crashes
Classic Guild Wars players know better than to look a gift horse in the mouth when it comes to patches. After getting some significant...
Leaderboard: Are you onboard with the online gaming industry’s new take on sequels?
Overwatch 2 and Path of Exile 2 being announced in such close proximity, plus rumors of an Anthem reboot in the weeks and the...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2019
The down side of doing these columns at the end of the year every year is that there's a certain challenge of writing the...
The best Massively OP community polls of 2019
Time for another annual tradition here on Massively OP: the counting of the polls! Yes, we run a bunch of polls in our irregular...
MassivelyOP’s 2019 Golden Yachties: Schlag meme of the year
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards end today with our pick for Schlag meme of the year. For those who never dip down into the comments,...
Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet seeks art director for unnamed console title
Time to get that ol' pondering mill a'churnin'. It looks like Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet isn't going to be a one title company,...
The Daily Grind: What is the best MMO holiday event minigame ever designed?
While Halloween seems to bring out a lot of spooky instances and trick-or-treating in MMORPGs, I've always felt that the Christmas season sees more...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO resolutions for 2020
We're succumbing to tradition this week as we're counting down the days until 2020. As we do at the end of every year, we've...
Why I Play: How NCsoft’s Fafurion update saved Lineage 2 in 2019
I don't know what it is about Asian MMOs, but I'm inexplicably drawn to them. Maybe it has something to do with my background;...
The best Massively OP streams of 2019
Massively OP's Stream Team - with MJ and her sidekicks Larry and Chris at the helm - changed up its streaming tactics this year,...
MassivelyOP’s 2019 Golden Yachties: Best MMO mod
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for Best MMO mod in 2019. If you're wondering what the heck a Golden Yachtie...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2019
When I was handed the reins of Choose My Adventure by the incomparably awesome Eliot, I had bare little idea what sort of things...
One Shots: Our favorite MMORPG screenshots of 2019
Occasionally in the past, I've taken the last week or two of the year and featured my personal favorite screenshots that One Shots posters...
The Stream Team: MOP tackles Guild Wars 2’s Wintersday jumping puzzle challenge
In Guild Wars 2 there are plenty of celebration shenanigans for the MOP crew to get into this season! MJ was this close to...
Guild Wars 2 previews early 2020 plans, promises Shadow in the Ice saga episode on January 28
If our retrospectives of Guild Wars 2's 2019 (found here and here) left you a bit unsettled about ArenaNet's future and communication, then feast...
Members of Guild Wars 2’s narrative team discuss an ArenaNet narrative mentorship program
To hear Guild Wars 2 narrative designer Novera King and associate narrative director Bobby Stein tell it, getting into video game narrative work is...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2020
With 2019 drawing to a close and a new decade of MMORPGs waiting for us just a few days away, the Massively OP writing...
Vague Patch Notes: Why don’t we have more MMO psionics?
Seized by what I can only describe as an incomprehensible fit of pique, I've spent a decent chunk of my free time over the...
The Massively Overpowered 2019 winter holiday MMO roundup
The holidays are here! Well, most of them are. Some of them might not be. And as is tradition here at Massively Overpowered, we...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2019
When we sit back to look at the biggest headlines of the year, we don't have to look far. These are the stories that...