Generally used to describe MMOs from before World of Warcraft’s launch in 2004, though sometimes shortened to describe just the first few MMOs launched prior to 2000.
classic mmo
The MOP Up: Blizzard’s mobile prospects (May 15, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
One Shots: You put a spell on me
One of the very few MMORPGs that my wife and I ever played together was Wizard101, and I think most of that time involved...
The Daily Grind: What’s been your biggest MMORPG mistake or regret?
I don't like listing off my mistakes and regrets in MMORPGs, but I do have them. I made a giant fool out of myself...
The Game Archaeologist: Myst Online Uru Live
The impact of Myst's launch in 1993 was akin to an atomic bomb going off in the PC gaming world. The leap forward in graphical...
Massively Overthinking: The sandbox MMORPG disconnect
This week's Massively Overthinking was inspired by a reader who decided to go by Sandboxless in Seattle when he penned this note of frustration to us.
I...
Funcom has another Secret World spin-off in the works, gives up on LEGO Minifigures Online
Funcom's annual report is out, and there's a whole lot to glean from the document about the company's state and its future plans. In...
The MOP Up: Richard Garriott’s new book (April 24, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
The Game Archaeologist: Saga of Ryzom
Every so often I get requests to cover such-and-such game in this column. These are often incredibly obscure titles, even to me, and when...
EverQuesting: Daybreak is on the right side of the MMORPG legacy server debate
WoW is stupid. Yes, I said it. World of Warcraft is dumb. More accurately, I should say Blizzard is stupid. The reason? Its stance...
Jukebox Heroes: Six cover songs of popular MMO tunes
There's a dedicated subcommunity of video game music afficionados out there that love these soundtracks so much that they devote considerable effort to producing...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG class type you can’t stand playing?
For me, it's rogues. Ug.
It's bizarre because I adore rogues, thieves, and especially stealth archers in single-player roleplaying games. There's never been an Elder...
RuneScape releases greatly improved NXT game client
RuneScape has come a long, long way from its days of being a crude assembly of jagged polygons. While the title got a nice visual...
RuneScape argues why MMO companies should offer classic servers
There's been this thing in the news over the past two weeks about a certain (illegal) fan-run vanilla World of Warcraft server and its...
One Shots: Hello Spino!
I should have known better. I really should have. A couple of weeks ago, I challenged Massively OP's readers to submit "disturbing, grim, or...
Anarchy Online’s new subscriber rewards program is live today
Funcom has just pushed live Anarchy Online's previously announced membership awards in today's patch. You'll need to manually claim your rewards, Funcom says, because "after this...
The Stream Team: Conquering more Chronicle: RuneScape Legends
Now that MassiveolyOp's MJ has tested out all of the available legends, in Chronicle: RuneScape Legends, she can focus on her favorites: the magic-using Ariane...
Working As Intended: Busting up the MMORPG nostalgia party
Last week, a clever Massively OP commenter, SC_Deadline, neatly summed up the ongoing Nostalrius emulator shutdown as Blizzard "bust up someone's nostalgia party," which...
The Game Archaeologist: Guild Wars Utopia
Aztecs. Chronomancers. Mounts. Halberds. Golems. Dual wielding.
These are all but a hint of what a fourth Guild Wars campaign could have been, a campaign...
Ultima Online rejects F2P rumors, says Steam launch has been held up by EA
If you were waiting to try Ultima Online when it launches on Steam as devs have been promising for over a year now since...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with huge class rosters
After talking with Mark Jacobs the other week about the difficulty of balancing Camelot Unchained's 30 classes, it got my mind thinking of MMOs...
