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Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2018
With the turn of every new year, I know we are entering unexplored territory in the field of MMO news. No matter what we...
The Daily Grind: Are you doing anything for WildStar’s sign-off?
Today is the day we say goodbye to WildStar for good, something that I am profoundly sorry to see happen. This was a game that...
The Stream Team: One last ride in WildStar
It's the final week for WildStar and Massively OP's Chris is ready to start saying his goodbyes to his bouncy pink Aurin character, along...
City of Heroes fans plan sunset memorial vigil on November 30
If you're not feeling depressed enough about beloved MMOs this week with WildStar facing the firing squad, you can always relive the City of...
Global Chat: Investigating LOTRO’s progression servers
The new Lord of the Rings Online progression servers are proving to be of significant interest to MMO players and bloggers alike, with some...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 197: Crawl out through the fallout
Eliot, Justin, and Bree discuss FFXIV's Fanfest, Fallout 76, Hellgate, WildStar, plus patches for Black Desert, EVE, Secret World Legends, ArcheAge, TERA, and EverQuest II, with mail on MMO difficulty settings.
Vague Patch Notes: When World of Warcraft breaks off your friendship
I spent a bunch of time post-BlizzCon thinking about why World of Warcraft personally bothered me. Not why its design pitfalls bothered me; that's...
WildStar sunsets November 28 – and it’s still dropping lore
Salt in the wound here: Carbine, or what's left of it, has released this week another leg in WildStar's meta plot and the slow...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that aimed at the future… and missed
The future is a weird place. It's similar to the present, but it has a very different outlook on the world, and it wants...
The Stream Team: A final frolic in WildStar’s Shade’s Eve
Massively OP's MJ is saddened that this will be the last ever Shade's Eve in WildStar. Besides a celebration of her favorite holiday, it's...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs should be preserved in the Video Game Museum?
In returning to the video game preservation debate this week following the DMCA exceptions granted to museums and archivists allowing them to archive online...
The Video Game Museum offers a home to Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes, and WildStar
It's the longest of all long shots, but WildStar could be kept alive -- and in a museum, as Indiana Jones intended. And not...
Massively Overthinking: Is there too much negativity in the MMO genre?
MassivelyOP reader Threespeed posed us an interesting question for this week's Overthinking that I thought was particularly appropriate given the Trion Worlds situation.
"Everyone has...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 192: Tricks and treats
MJ, Justin, and Bree discuss Trion's acquisition, Aion's Awakened Legacy, MMO Halloween, Black Desert's Russian un-fiasco, SWTOR, MapleStory 2, and ZeniMax's new maybe-MMO.
LOTRO Legendarium: Wait a minute, LOTRO, you lost me
If WildStar will go down in gaming history as the MMO with the consistently shortest quest text, then Lord of the Rings Online has...
WildStar is now celebrating its last-ever Shade’s End Halloween event
Although its imminent sunset looms, WildStar is still getting into the Halloween spirit by bringing Shade's Eve back one last time. From October 19th...
Battle Bards Episode 130: Oddballs 2
While every Battle Bards episode is a cavalcade of strangeness, this week the team is ratcheting it up with the return of “Oddball” MMORPG...
Global Chat: Does Guild Wars 2’s newest episode reach for the stars?
Guild Wars 2's newest living world episode seems to be grabbing the MMO community's attention in a way that the season so far hasn't....
The Daily Grind: What MMO plans do you have for the fall?
With the snap of fall and change of the leaves, the season has taken a change as we go into the last four months...
Perfect Ten: Failed MMOs that could have succeeded with more love
Hindsight is 20/20. Unless you're blind in one eye from nostalgia, in which case hindsight is 0/20. In any case, you understand that it's...
