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Massively Overthinking: Fixing boring MMORPG dungeons
Earlier this month, MMO genre luminary Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street tweeted something from someone on his Ghost MMO team that's going to resonate with a...
Elder Scrolls Online devs offer their favorite Scribing spell combos ahead of Gold Road
So here's the thing about the Elder Scrolls franchise's spellcrafting systems: Whenever I get my hands on them, imagination kind of flies out the...
Elder Scrolls Online discusses Gold Road’s Tales of Tribute update and Brazil community gathering
Last week, MOP's Justin alluded to Elder Scrolls Online's Tales of Tribute as one of the game's many systems features that were added and...
Massively Overthinking: Why and how we mod our MMORPGs
Last week, the MOP team was sitting around in our virtual offices, talking about modding Elder Scrolls Online, all because some of our readers...
EVE Online’s latest video details how the Equinox expansion will ‘reinvigorate’ nullsec
When the Equinox expansion arrives for EVE Online on June 11th, it'll dramatically overhaul and "reinvigorate" nullsec space - the game's designation for lawless...
Lost Ark appeases Echidna fans and sets server merges for June 5 – but not for NA West
Amazon's latest dev blog for Lost Ark is generating cheers from the playerbase, which is rare enough that you know we have to dig...
Kickstarted multiplayer cozygame Loftia talks minigames, NPCs, and accessibility
Mediumly multiplayer solarpunk cozy game Loftia closed out April with another dev blog about the team's progress this week.
Bolstered by last year's half-million-dollar Kickstarter,...
Elder Scrolls Online teases the regions and destinations of the Gold Road chapter
We're less than a month out from the PC launch of Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road chapter, and if you're still wondering what the...
Global Chat: How much is Fallout 76 benefiting from Amazon’s Fallout series?
MMO blog Tales of the Aggronaut looked at the recent phenomenon of Amazon's popular Fallout series and any correlating increase in the games' populations,...
Massively Overthinking: The loss of ArcheAge
Last week's admission from Kakao that XLGAMES is pulling the plug on ArcheAge really hit me, and I'm still trying to process why because...
New World players have a better than 90% clear rate in the Winter Rune Forge raid
One of the headline features of New World's latest season is the hard-to-say-10-times-fast Winter Rune Forge raid, which Amazon is toasting this week with...
The MOP Up: Tarisland’s Mr. D fixes the world
Over on Discord, Tarisland continues to walk fans through the history of its world, including the war between powerful beings, including a guy named......
Battle Bards Episode 232: Wayfinder’s soundtrack
A small online RPG proves to have a big musical heart with Wayfinder, as Syp, Steff, and Syl discover! These consummate professionals chew through...
Massively Overthinking: Is there a feature or item in MMORPGs you won’t play without?
I was jolted into a near panic earlier this past weekend when I saw a tweet from Lord of the Rings Online in which...
Here’s how EverQuest and EverQuest II 2024 progression servers – Anashti Sul, Teek, and Tormax – will work
When Daybreak dropped producer letters for EverQuest and EverQuest II earlier this month, the MMORPG fanbase immediately started buzzing about the new progression servers...
New World elaborates on the design of the eight artifacts added with Season of the Guardian
Amazon's latest New World dev blog isn't going to shake any foundations with breaking news, but it does deep-dive the new artifacts added in...
The MOP Up: FFXIV recaps its PAX East appearance
In case you missed it in person, you can catch up with all of Final Fantasy XIV's PAX East 2024 developments in a recap...
Final Fantasy XIV highlights Fruity Snacks, a player who is all about fishing
There's more to Final Fantasy XIV than just emotionally charged fights against birds with depression, and there's more to the behind-the-scenes elements of the...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs and ‘fresh piece of gum’ syndrome
Back in March, MOP reader Exarch Cathedra posted a comment to a Daily Grind about daily logins and sticky MMOs that caught my attention,...
Neverwinter previews Adventures in Wildspace’s new dungeon, heroic encounters, and more
Following a worrying bit of silence and slower development on Neverwinter's front, it's certainly good to see that a huge module is heading our...
