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Choose My Adventure: The steady climb upward in Throne & Liberty levels and power
I've finally gotten to a point of reasonable comfort in Throne and Liberty. I've definitely settled on my weapons, obviously. I'm starting to get...
MMO Hype Train: Concern for the fragile labor and delivery of Pantheon
Welcome to MMO Hype Train, a new column here at Massively OP! In this space, I'll be channeling my excitement, speculation, and curiosity about...
New World Aeternum, still an MMORPG but now on console, has officially launched
This it it folks: The Europe and Oceania New World servers opened up in the wee hours of this morning, and now at 9...
NetEase officially announces mobile FPS Destiny Rising, with closed alpha starting November 1
Last month insider reports from Bungie confirmed the existence of Destiny: Rising, a NetEase-developed mobile prequel of the multiplayer looter shooter where players control...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s DPS jobs need a balance pass post-Dawntrail
Balance at the start of a new expansion is always really hard. It's not impossible, but the Final Fantasy XIV team has an uphill...
LOTRO Legendarium: Should all LOTRO expansions include ‘special systems?’
It's been an exciting week for Lord of the Rings Online as full details and testing for this fall's expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, arrived...
ArcheAge Chronicles video highlights its acrobatic combat and vast persistent online world
A couple of weeks ago XLGames and Kakao Games showed off a rebranded and revised ArcheAge 2, with the name of ArcheAge Chronicles and...
Vague Patch Notes: What is good meaningful leveling in MMORPGs?
All right. So we are here at long last, at the end of Leveling Month, although it's actually more like Month And A Bit....
Here’s the timeline for New World Aeternum preloading and launch by region and platform
We're now less than a week away from the launch of New World's Aeternum expansion and the welcoming of console players to the mix....
Perfect Ten: The complete list of CCP’s weird EVE Online projects and offshoots
CCP Games, like some other studios we could mention, seems to be a place where the team got one very successful MMO off the...
Embracer-owned Cryptic Studios will suffer devastating layoffs at the end of October
We've been keeping a very worried eye on Cryptic Studios for the last year or so, ever since it became clear that the floundering...
Brighter Shores confirms November launch date following October 22 closed beta
Back in August, we learned that Brighter Shores, the new MMORPG en route from Jagex and RuneScape co-founder Andrew Gower, was targeting November 5th...
Choose My Adventure: Throne and Liberty continues to both intrigue and concern
I appreciate that reading that summary about my current feelings regarding Throne and Liberty comes off as conflicting, but that's primarily because I continue...
Diablo IV’s Vessel of Hatred expansion officially unlocks tonight
It's go time for Diablo IV as Blizzard has officially launched Vessel of Hatred as of 7 p.m. EDT tonight - just as this...
Vitae Aeternum: The best New World Aeternum solo builds in 2024
Earlier in New World's life, I did a few guides analyzing the virtues of different weapons and armour for the solo player. Most of...
Wisdom of Nym: Is Final Fantasy XIV finally fixing its housing problem?
It was a tiny, incidental line in Final Fantasy XIV's live letter. The sort of thing that you could easily miss, especially since it's...
Star Citizen devs are being forced into mandatory unpaid overtime in order to make CitizenCon happen
While Star Citizen is making sure it keeps excitement up for CitizenCon 2024, behind the scenes the devs at CIG are being crunched to...
Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?
Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...
New World’s Aeternum launch trailer shows the MMORPG character journey – backward
We may be two weeks out from launch, but MMORPG New World has dropped its Aeternum launch trailer this afternoon anyhow. And the framing...
Casually Classic: World of Warcraft’s delves have real evergreen potential
Ever since World of Warcraft released back in 2004, there's been an tension in this game between casual, solo play and hardcore group progression. It was...
