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Massively OP Podcast Episode 520: Get in gamers, we’re going on a road trip!
Justin and Bree discuss Dune Awakening, Elder Scrolls Online, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, New World, and City of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Palia, plus a mailbag topic on whether a bad MMO is better than none.
Into the Super-Verse: What the heck is going on with balancing in City of Heroes Homecoming?
When we first looked at the beta patch notes for City of Heroes: Homecoming's i28p2 Legacy, the first joke I made to MOP's Bree...
City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p2 Legacy enters testing with a major content revamp for Kallisti Wharf
City of Heroes Homecoming fans, your long wait for fresh content is over - or will be soon, anyway. The officially licensed live version...
Fallout 76’s Gone Fission update and 21st season have arrived with fishing content and a janky houseboat
I'm contractually obligated to adore the name of the latest Fallout 76 patch because I have had a City of Heroes characters named "Gone...
Massively Overthinking: What will the MMORPG genre look like in 2030?
If you had asked me in 2020 what the MMO genre would look like in 2025, I'm not sure how I would've answered. It...
The Daily Grind: How much money would you pay to keep a beloved MMORPG online?
Back in April, Wild Terra 2 studio Juvty Worlds did something fairly unusual in the MMORPG world, at least outside of rogue servers and...
City of Heroes Rebirth celebrates its sixth birthday this month with XP events and Nemesis invasions
It's hard for me to believe it, but it's been over six years since the City of Heroes community whirred back to life with...
Vague Patch Notes: Challenge and rewards in MMOs are made up
All right, folks, pop quiz. I want you to name for me the first major raid in Ultima Online. That was the first game...
The Daily Grind: Do you play the same MMOs as your significant other?
One of the things I love about having a dedicated room in my house with all the computers is that my family games together...
City of Heroes Homecoming marks the original MMO’s 21st anniversary with a badge and event
Badgers of City of Heroes: Homecoming, rise up! Today marks the 21st anniversary of the original MMORPG's release, which is reason enough for the...
Storyboard: Dealing with the things your MMOs characters can’t do (but still can)
In the middle of Final Fantasy XIV's post-Stormblood patches, there's a scene where the characters need to purchase a specific katana. An exact price...
The Daily Grind: What are the tipoffs that mark gamers out as veteran MMORPG players?
Back during the first weekend of the Lord of the Rings Online transfer mess, I spent an inordinate amount of time in the game's...
Massively Overthinking: The eternal granular squabbles in our pet MMORPGs
So if you don't play a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server - and chances are that you don't - you probably have no idea...
One Shots: That’s a whole lot of WD-40
Let's be real: A giant, city-destroying robot is going to require lubrication by the tankful. And some poor sap is going to have the...
Vague Patch Notes: Level scaling in MMOs with the lateral spread and the temporary shrink
Last week I talked about how MMORPGs use level scaling to accomplish actually useful and important goals. In short, there is an issue with...
Perfect Ten: Early versions of MMOs that were rougher than you remember
Despite our nostalgia goggles and cries for legacy versions of MMORPGs, the real truth is that most 1.0 versions of our online games were...
The Daily Grind: What are the most challenging upgrade systems in MMORPGs?
The thing I love about City of Heroes is that it scales remarkably well. If I want to just play the game or a...
Massively Overthinking: The one about open-world randos in MMOs
MOP's Chris is fast becoming my muse: It was his remark about Marvel Heroes that inspired this week's Massively Overthinking.
"Some of the best fun...
Perfect Ten: The accursed MMORPG dungeons of no return
So it came to be that I did face my Judgment, and I sat between that greatest of all Game-Masters o'er all the online...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 513: The MMORPG PvP theme show
Justin and Bree sit for a special themeshow all about MMORPG PvP in its many (many) forms, in addition to adventures in the LOTRO housing chaos.