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Massively Overthinking: When is localization itself the kiss of death for an imported MMORPG?
Last week, when I was poking around the internet trying to understand why Amazon was still making excuses for de-sexualizing some Lost Ark characters...
VR MMO Zenith drops support for PS VR1 and Quest 1 headsets
Zenith, which still hasn't fulfilled its Kickstarter promise to fully launch on PC, is already discontinuing functionality for older VR headsets - specifically the...
Massively on the Go: Why Pokemon Go elite raids fail while Scarlet/Violet tera raids fly
As we recently noted while updating our March Pokemon Go event round-up, Niantic has somehow made the already hated Elite Raids even worse. The...
Former Trion boss Scott Hartsman illuminates the rise and fall of RIFT
Yesterday, we ran an editorial from MOP's Tyler focused on his reasoning that MMOs are better off showcasing their own special attributes than tearing...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Swordsman X Survival, Legend of Lunia, and X8
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's random and recurring roundup of a few MMOs you've never heard of! Maybe you've heard of some of them. You're...
Massively Overthinking: The FOMO in our MMOs
World of Warcraft has become a very dump-on-able game lately, and Blizzard isn't making it any harder, as a tweet the company sent out...
Battle Bards Episode 222: World of Warcraft Dragonflight
Will our fascination with giant, skyfaring, flame-belching lizards subside? World of Warcraft bets not, as it’s currently soaring through its Dragonflight expansion. Will the...
Global Chat: How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine impacted EVE Online?
While the effects of real-world events on video games certainly isn't as important as the lives, livelihoods, and freedoms of actual people, it is...
Massively Overthinking: How should MMOs handle in-game criming?
A week or so ago, I fell down a rabbit hole when writing up an ArcheAge post. Kakao was handing out joke titles for...
Chronicles of Elyria boss justifies website rebuilding, communication, and re-opening the Discord
Last month, Soulbound Studios' Jeromy Walsh wrote another long-form address discussing the merging of design documents for Kingdoms of Elyria and its erstwhile (i.e.,...
Check out these behind-the-scenes documents about the design of Infinite Crisis
As you no doubt know, Infinite Crisis is long gone. It's so gone that we recently ran a piece walking through the game's development,...
Mad World issues dev blogs about pets and gems while continuing to crank out preview videos
It's been another couple of months since we peeked in on Mad World, so it's about time we circled back around to Jandisoft's socials...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
Elder Scrolls Online highlights some of the quality-of-life and accessibility features coming with Update 37
As usual, the next update to Elder Scrolls Online isn't only about the Necrom expansion and all of its gubbins; it's also about Update...
Leaderboard: Do you prefer first-person or third-person perspective while gaming?
Quantic Foundry, the team behind the Gamer Motivation Model and the modern gamer profiling test, put out a dev blog at the end of...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the ideal content cadence for an MMORPG in 2023?
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 revealed a major shake-up of its content delivery cadence. Studio ArenaNet suggested that the traditional living world cadence...
Neverwinter elaborates on upcoming combat companion balancing and prepares another Siege event
Companion NPCs can be a pretty invaluable tool when making your way through the battles of Neverwinter, but it looks like those combat companions...
Valheim teases Ashlands, a new critter, and a hat toggle
The last time Valheim foretold a "fairly meaty" patch, it turned out to be a nothingburger, so don't get too excited by today's dev...
Guild Wars 2’s patch adds WvW incentives, cosmetics randomizer, and class balancing
As promised, Guild Wars 2's class balancing update has arrived, and depending on which elite spec play you will love, hate, or love and...
Magic The Gathering Online releases Phyrexia All Will Be One expansion, says there’s been no data breach
Daybreak is promoting new acquisition Magic: The Gathering Online and its latest update, which rolled out last week and includes Phyrexia: All Will Be...
