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Crowfall takes a closer look at character race disciplines
Racial passives in MMOs are a bit of a dying system, but Crowfall is bringing them back with racial disciplines, which were the subject...
New World details its semi-instanced player housing system
Amazon knows the best way to make me set aside my worries about New World: a dev blog on player housing. Will it work?...
The Soapbox: Why does it feel like I don’t have time for an MMO when I really do?
This guest Soapbox was commissioned through MassivelyOP's Patreon program and is authored by Steve "Sray" Blouin, a name our longtime commenters will surely recognize...
Perfect Ten: Dead MMOs resurrected via rogue servers
Last December, the Massively OP 2019 Awards gave its "Best Trend" nod to the rise of rogue servers in the MMO genre. Preservation of...
The Daily Grind: Does an MMO’s economy ever stop you from going back?
I've written before about MMO economies and how badly handled inflation can wreck them because it's one of my pet favorite topics, but the...
Battle Bards Episode 162: Mystery abounds
Do you love a good mystery? A hidden secret? A riddle wrapped in an enigma and presented on a platter of puzzle? Then you’re...
Global Chat: How fares WoW Classic at the six-month mark?
The phases (i.e., patches) for World of Warcraft Classic continue to roll out, and as the endgame takes form and Darkmoon Faire arrives, it's...
MMO Business Roundup: Tim Sweeney’s politics gaffe, Nexon’s Q4 2019, and the old BioWare crew
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Politics in games
Epic's Tim Sweeney opened this week's DICE Summit with a whopper of...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG do you wish got a glow-up?
No matter how much we love mechanics, even our most cerebral writers and readers still admit to being graphics snobs. It's human: We like...
Crowfall’s February Q&A tackles tentpole features, survival tray, and racial passives
ArtCraft's J. Todd Coleman and Thomas Blair are back for another monthly Crowfall Q&A, covering all the questions and big news as the Drengskapar...
Albion Online now counts 350K monthly active players, plans major alliance changes
We just got some fun numbers on Albion Online, buried in a forum post: Sandbox Interactive says that its massive Queen update in January...
Massively Overthinking: MassivelyOP, five years in
Five years ago, we flipped a switch, let the site go live, and published our first article as Massively OP. It was from Justin,...
Stake your claim with New World’s settlements as Amazon drops new dev blog
Even though New World is allegedly right around the corner this spring, Amazon Game Studios has been fairly quiet on the sandbox title since...
Dual Universe casts a spotlight on alpha 3’s new info button and surface harvesting features
Yep, Dual Universe is still kicking out informational alpha 3 dev blogs well after its latest alpha build went online. Still, this particular showcase...
Massively Overthinking: Contemplating Colossus and Camelot Unchained
You had to know we were going to talk about Camelot Unchained in this edition of Massively Overthinking, right?
Last week, City State Entertainment announced...
Overwatch’s new hero pools hit the PTS as Blizzard gift-wraps new goodies for workshop modders
I'm going to tentatively say here that this might be the best (or at least most smooth) thing Blizzard has done in a month...
Here’s how Fallout 76’s reputation tracks will work in Wastelanders
When the still-delayed Wastelanders expansion comes to Fallout 76, players will be mingling with NPCs - and that means NPC-related mechanics will be in...
Battle Bards Episode 161: Dragon Quest X
While Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIV is enjoying rousing success here in the west, its other MMO — Dragon Quest X — never made...
Global Chat: Do you binge-play MMOs?
With TV streaming services that dump entire seasons of shows on us at once, we have become a society that is used to binging...
Diablo III’s live team discusses balance and nerfing animation cheesing classes ahead of 2.6.8 update
Gotta say, I was not expecting a Diablo III dev blog this week, or really ever, what with Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal waiting...
