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Justin, Bree, Eliot, MJ, Larry, Brendan, Tina, and Andrew sit for a roundtable on the MMOs we played in 2017, our 2018 resolutions, and the site's 2017 awards, with mailbag questions on MMO food, PvP, investigation content, business models worse than lockboxes, and the state of the site.

Ship of Heroes is super-jumping right into 2018 with two documents of note. The first is a retrospective of what the Heroic Games team...

There are many possible reactions to that headline. Some of you are expressing disbelief that Aion could be moving to a free-to-play model in...

We talk about money a lot here on Massively OP. Business models. Stupidly expensive things we've bought. Annoying cash shops. Even things we'd like...

We've reached the end of another year, and it's certainly been a busy one for EVE Online. This year saw heavy gameplay iteration, with...

Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's regular recap of what's going on in crowdfunded MMOs, which we do specifically...

So I've been writing this column for a year now. A little more than a year, as it happens, but last year there was...

While many MMO studios wait until January to release their year preview letters (and the lazy ones put it off until Ash Wednesday), Dark...

File this one under "bad press is still press right guys" or possibly "are you even kidding me right now": Star Citizen announced today...

Happy birthday, Star Wars: The Old Republic. I don't think your birthday has actually ever fallen on the same day that my article released,...

Let's talk about value. A couple of weeks back, I did an article on the healthiest games at the end of the year; today,...

This is it, people. We are counting down to the final days and hours of 2017, and I know that there is usually this...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, eyebrows across the 'verse rose as Crytek filed a lawsuit alleging that the studios behind Star Citizen and Squadron...

After weeks of silence, Ashes of Creation looks like it might be gearing up for the promised December 15th Alpha Zero test. While the...

For this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We've tried to isolate our favorite personal...

Crowns are the microtransaction currency coming to Crowfall starting in 2018, which you can buy like most microtransaction currencies. Guilds are... well, guilds. If...

Earlier this year, when we had yet to actually get much information about Secret World Legends, I posted a piece in which I discussed...

Is it just me, or does Star Wars: The Old Republic seem to be in a serious funk this year? I mean, the game...

Pearl Abyss' Dae Il Kim sat for an interview with InvenGlobal earlier this fall that's just gone live, and while it might be a...

When Andie "CCP Seagull" Nordgren walked onto the stage at EVE Fanfest 2013 and delivered her long-term vision for the future of EVE Online,...