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Fight or Kite: Lost Ark’s PvP is a well-designed experience for Lost Ark players
Lost Ark was a game that may as well have been vaporware for so many years. It plays basically like a Diablo game, although...
Vague Patch Notes: So why do MMO developers gender lock?
Last week's Vague Patch Notes on MMO lore and its impact on design decisions produced a lot of good comments along with a smattering...
Aliens, events, and The Pitt: MassivelyOP interview with Fallout 76’s Mark Tucker
Four years into the wasteland, and Fallout 76 isn't slowing down one bit. With Bethesda committing to several updates over the course of 2022,...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Spoiler-free first impressions of Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons
Remember when "Cantha confirmed" was a Guild Wars 2 meme? I, along with many other players, never thought we'd actually see Cantha in the...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What to do first in Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons
Happy launch day! Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons is finally here! A big, meaty chunk of content the likes of which we haven't...
Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons is officially live today – check out the new trailer!
It's official: As of noon EST, Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons expansion is finally live, sending players back into Cantha 16 years after...
Not So Massively: Lost Ark is junk food gaming (in a good way)
Having originally played the alpha and the beta, I thought my plan for Lost Ark would be to play other things for the first...
LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring LOTRO Update 32’s Angle of Mitheithel
Even after a decade-and-a-half of constant expansion, Lord of the Rings Online's Middle-earth has more left to show us than is currently on the...
Vague Patch Notes: Lore is not an excuse for bad MMO design decisions
In a previous column, I wrote about how gender-locking classes is bad. This is because it is bad. It is bad in all conceivable...
Enter to win a Guild Wars 2 Ultimate Collection, headset, mouse, and art print in our End of Dragons sweepstakes!
In celebration of the impending launch of Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons next week, ArenaNet has kindly granted MassivelyOP an epic prize pack...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMO armor is completely ridiculous
This is probably a rant best saved for another day, but I want to know when it became completely acceptable not to demand that...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Everything you’ve missed if you haven’t played Guild Wars 2 since Path of Fire
There are a lot of great MMORPGs out there, and even if you enjoy Guild Wars 2, maybe it's not your main game. Maybe...
Black Desert PC announces Mountain of Eternal Winter expansion for April 2022
Just because February isn't already absolutely packed with MMO news, here's one more big one: Black Desert PC is prepping a huge new expansion...
Wisdom of Nym: Everything we learned from the February Final Fantasy XIV live letter
So what did we learn from the latest Final Fantasy XIV live letter? A lot, and most of it good, although some of it...
Final Fantasy XIV’s live letter explains future patch plans and graphical upgrade plans
After a decade of operation (a little more, actually, but even producer and director Naoki Yoshida admits to rounding to a decade because it...
Into the Super-Verse: The joy of travel powers in superhero MMOs
I lived for level 14. Before level 14 was torture -- after was bliss.
I speak, of course, of City of Heroes "back in the...
Dungeons and Dragons Online announces new producer and a packed 2022 roadmap
Like its counterpart in Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online now has a producer of its very own. Standing Stone Games...
Vague Patch Notes: The metaverse doesn’t exist and isn’t a good idea either
You can't swing your arms at this point without hearing about "the metaverse" in some capacity, which is supposedly the reason why Facebook changed...
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...
Perfect Ten: What I expect from MMO character cosmetics
There are many reasons to be deeply cynical about the sterile, lifeless morass that appears to be what people like Mark Zuckerberg see as...
