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Grand Theft Auto Online launches $6 monthly subscription program on console
What if I told you that there was an easy way to turn six bucks into a half-million dollars with the click of a...
Massively Overthinking: How long should MMO expansions be?
Star Wars The Old Republic's Legacy of the Sith struggled for many reasons, but the one I've seen echoed over and over is that...
Lord of the Rings Online makes raid adjustments, promises Yondershire preview this week
The fine-tuning on Lord of the Rings Online's newest raid hasn't slowed down yet. Standing Stone Games pushed out Update 32.0.5 to adjust The...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel when an MMO changes a well-known zone?
Buried in all of the news that LOTRO is changing its business model was the word that one of the game's most iconic locales...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 365: Free Middle-earth
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's monetization shift, NCsoft's Throne and Liberty, Albion Online, New World, Elder Scrolls Online, Elyon, and ArcheAge, with adventures in LOTRO, DDO, WoW Classic, Guild Wars 2, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on SSG support and our favorite MMO zones.
The Daily Grind: Will LOTRO’s monetization changes pull you back in?
Last week, Standing Stone Games stunned Lord of the Rings Online players by announcing a sweeping monetization overhaul that we called a game-changer. In...
Make My MMO: Elite Disappointing
It's been a relatively quiet couple of weeks in the MMO crowdfunding scene, and we're not entirely sorry to see it, given what a...
LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online takes much-needed steps forward
I don't know about you, Lord of the Rings Online fans, but I am really, really digging these quarterly producer's letters. It feels like...
Massively Overthinking: Does wallet-voting work in modern MMOs?
MOP reader The Grand Nagus recently pointed us to his thread on the Star Trek Online reddit where players were trying to sort out...
Gameforge begins sending out transition codes for EU Wizard101 players ahead of Gamigo takeover
During a Q4 2021 earnings call, MGI noted that Gamigo would be taking over stewardship of Wizard101 from Gameforge as part of MGI's ownership...
Interview: Mortal Online 2’s CEO on launch, the playerbase, tech, and the future of the sandbox
Mortal Online 2 was one of multiple MMOs to launch in the first few months of 2022, and it began life with the best...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Ascending Tide DLC is live on PC today
Elder Scrolls Online is dropping its first big DLC of the year today with the release of The Ascending Tide DLC on PC, Mac,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why people bounce off Lord of the Rings Online
Any time that you are deeply invested in an MMORPG, it's perhaps one of the most disheartening and frustrating experiences to watch your friends...
Make My MMO: SOTA, Legends of Aria, and TitanReach represent different hazards of MMO crowdfunding
This edition of MassivelyOP's MMO crowdfunding column is a tale of three MMOs that remind everyone why you should be extremely careful putting money...
Massively Overthinking: Is free-to-play as bad as we thought it’d be a decade ago?
It's 2022 and we're about to talk about free-to-play like it's 2012! Back then, the conversation was all about which MMORPG would fall to free-to-play...
ArcheAge kicks off territory claiming and sieges on fresh start servers, reopens a limited marketplace
Today is patch day for ArcheAge, which means there are (obviously) some patch notes to highlight. This week's update is a bit on the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 361: A disturbance in the Force
Justin and Larry discuss SWTOR's Legacy of the Sith, Palia's business model, LOTRO's Rangers and Ruins, DDO's new producer, and FFXIV's 2022 roadmap, with adventures in SWTOR, LOTRO, Conan Exiles, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus mailbag topics on getting back into MMOs and favorite NPCs.
Bethsoft is sunsetting its launcher, migrating libraries – including Fallout 76 – to Steam
Hopefully you weren't too attached to the Bethesda.net game launcher, as it's sunsetting in early April and Bethsoft is asking players to migrate their...
Hyperspace Beacon: A measured response to SWTOR’s Legacy of the Sith backlash
So Star Wars: The Old Republic fans are exploding on the internet about the franchise's latest expansion, Legacy of the Sith. As a player...
Massively Overthinking: Lost Ark and its place in the MMORPG genre
We've all been watching Lost Ark a very long time; I remember writing an article about it way back in 2014 because I was...
