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 Game Archaeologist: True Fantasy Live Online
As an extremely amateur historian -- and an extremely attractive archaeologist -- I've always been fascinated with the "what ifs" of gaming's timeline. What...
Mark Kern to Ember followers: ‘I feel a profound sense of responsibility for what happened to Firefall’
In the wake of the apparent complete emptying of the Red 5 Studios offices this week, former Firefall founder Mark Kern is forging ahead...
The Daily Grind: How important are MMORPG playerbase metrics to you?
While playing Overwatch with guildies the other night, my husband turned to me with a hypothetical. The guys were speculating on World of Warcraft's...
Massively Overthinking: Starting over with MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking topic is from a reader named Yasser, who asked us:
"If you had to pick one MMO to experience all over...
The Stream Team: Trying out Morvran in Chronicle: RuneScape Legends
As much as MassivelyOP’s MJ enjoys the vampiric Vanescula and the magic-using Ariane, she can't declare these are her favorites to play in Chronicle:...
Dark Age of Camelot rolls out ‘most ambitious’ patch to date
Hold on to the reins of your war charger: Dark Age of Camelot charged onto the battlefield with it's "most ambitious" patch to date...
RuneFest takes RuneScape players on a tour of the Eastern Isles
When October rolls around, RuneScape players will be heading off into the great unknown in the Eastern Isles. It's a distant continent full of...
The Daily Grind: Do you think of yourself as an MMO PvPer?
Whether I've consciously realized it or not, I've been a PvPer since my first FFA PvP sandbox, Ultima Online, in 1997. Since then, I've...
Ultima Online newsletter addresses Publish 94, special moves, and armor enhancing
Ultima Online's latest newsletter is short and sweet: Broadsword Producer Bonnie "Mesanna" Armstrong confirms that the team is still working on Publish 94, shooting...
The Game Archaeologist: Sega’s 10six MMO
If you were to think of Sega and MMOs, chances are the only thing that would come to mind is the Phantasy Star Online franchise....
Shards Online AMA covers permadeath, community servers, and the Steam launch
Citadel Studios' Derek Brinkmann hopped on Reddit yesterday for an AMA revolving around Shards Online. Among the highlights:
The game does have hunger, but...
The MOP Up: RuneScape Chronicles’ beach party (July 17, 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...
Jukebox Heroes: MMO tunes from the 1990s
I'll admit that I have a particular fondness for older video game music. I still scour the archives of NES and Genesis libraries for...
Jagex confirms sale to Chinese company
Back in March, we reported on the rumored sale of Jagex to Chinese company Shandong Hongda, a company known chiefly for its mining operations. The...
Take a look at some of Dark Age of Camelot’s class changes
Even after all of these years, Dark Age of Camelot still has a few tricks up its sleeves -- and class changes down its...
RuneScape reopens Port Sarim in time for a pirate invasion
Players who are rejoicing that RuneScape's Port Sarim has gotten a rework might want to temper their excitement with the dread knowledge that the...
The Game Archaeologist: Eight launch trailers from classic MMOs
When YouTube first became a thing, I dismissed it as a site that was mostly preoccupied with people talking into cameras in an attempt...
Long-running vampire MMO Dark Eden looks for Steam Greenlight approval
While it might seem that Steam exists to promote and sell the newest games on the market, on occasion old classics pop up looking...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 72: The dog days of summer updates
Justin and Bree discuss Riders of Icarus, Landmark, Age of Conan, RIFT, and Aion, with mailbag questions on FFA PvP tension and social encounters.
R.I.P. PlanetSide
With barely a whisper in memory of its long-running MMOFPS, Daybreak closed down the PlanetSide servers this past weekend.
The studio had previously stated that...
