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Last week, Guild Wars 2 became the latest western MMORPG to finally add proper housing, with pages lifted straight out of Wildstar and RIFT....

Last week on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a heated discussion about terminology in MMORPGs (terminology we'll probably talk about in a separate thread...

For Battle Bards’ penultimate episode, Syp and Syl explore some EPIC battle music across many MMOs. After all, if we’re going to go out...

I've had to face the fact that among the MOP team, I'm in somewhat of a minority who actually likes -- nay, passionately loves...

It feels like less than a year ago that Guild Wars 2 was launching its last expansion… oh wait, it was! Love it or...

In 2009, Dungeons & Dragons Online went free-to-play, which was a pretty big deal at the time. It was especially important to me, since...

It's June 26th, Star Wars Galaxies' 21st birthday, and I'm sitting on Google Meet talking to none other than MMORPG founding father (and SWG...

Ever since ArenaNet announced Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds expansion, there's been considerable debate among core Guild Wars 2 players and dedicated MMORPG housing...

A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...

We talk a lot about MMOs that fail here on Massively Overpowered. I wrote a whole column about how our standards of success are...

Normally in these Perfect Ten lists, I'm very outward-facing. I like to create lists that are as helpful or amusing as possible for others...

Even though all MMORPGs compete for our time, affection, and -- above all else -- money, it doesn't mean that they can't get along....

There's this ongoing common perception in MMOs like Lord of the Rings Online that player housing is good for one and only one purpose:...

It's been a running joke for a few years that I always put hot tubs in my MMO houses whenever possible, and once that...

Let's make something clear right up front: If you came into this column eager to head for the comments section to say, "Well, I...

Robots are, let's face it, very important. You might say that's not true, and to that I say: When you get to write the...

Justin and Bree tackle a theme proposed by the listeners, as this show is all about MMORPG housing, including why housing matters, post-launch housing patches, placement tools, prefab vs. custom houses, housing as part of the gameplay loop, apartments vs. instanced vs. open-world housing, incentivizing housing use, taxes and monetization, and integrating housing into MMO ecosystems.

As you have probably noticed from the fact that I have been writing about City of Heroes nonstop since the Homecoming server got its...

For the past few years we've been peeking in with hopeful looks at Nexus Forever, the rogue server project for WildStar that we first...

For our first Massively Overthinking of the year, we're drawing a hard line between what we think will happen, what we mean to make...