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Justin and Bree pore over the mail bag to answer questions on WoW, the state of MOP, future columns, favorite MMO music, MMO communities, lockbox RNG, MMO sunsets, open dungeons, and LitRPG.

Thanks to MOP reader Agemyth's suggestion back in 2016, we've been debating the best new zone added to an MMO every year. Obviously, your answer...

We all know that Amazon delivers pretty much everywhere with its crazy two-day shipping, but did you realize that the company could do so...

While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...

A post that we did earlier this year pointed me to a rather funny and catchy song called "No Mercy" by The Living Tombstone....

Despite the recent news from Blizzard that Heroes of the Storm's development cadence is being scaled back, with some of its developers being shifted...

The one down side to working ahead is that sometimes your schedule gets nudged around more than expected. I promise that a further look...

I did a little double-take when I read SuperData's November 2018 games industry revenue ranking piece today, and not because the title and intro...

Here's a fun question to consider. What were Emblems of Valor and Emblems of Heroism designed to do in World of Warcraft? Yes, they were...

There's been a lot going on at Blizzard lately: Diablo III has just begun its latest season, the Season of Grandeur, during which all...

Here we go, here we go, here we go again. This one is always an interesting column to write because there's a certain amount...

Welcome back to another catch-all post of gaming business stuff that might otherwise slip through the cracks! Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, who recently took...

Remember when World of Warcraft launched and the developers specifically ensured that Forsaken and Human players couldn't speak with one another to keep a cross-faction...

Grumpy over Diablo Immortal and Diablo III? Path of Exile not your cup of tea? Maybe give Pagan Online a peek for your clicking...

It's like people are discovering MMOs all over again. Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies creator Raph Koster recently expressed amusement at the culture and...

We've got a lot of awards going out over the next couple of weeks about the "best" and "biggest" of this and that. But...

If you wondered how Blizzard MOBA Heroes of the Storm was performing, today's announcement should serve as a pretty good clue it's not going...

Somehow, Bethesda managed to persevere after the Great Canvas Shortage of 2018 to replace the Fallout 76 CE bags that were essentially plastic shopping bags...

Holiday Blizzard World is live in Overwatch! Oops, nevermind! Well, it was live earlier this week briefly as the Winter Wonderland rolled out to the...

The MMO genre is in a strange and uncertain place right now -- but also one that is quietly thrilling. We've long passed the...