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One Shots: After darkness, light
Lord of the Rings Online is a game of great contrasts -- between evil and good, between darkness and light, and between ugliness and...
Massively Overthinking: The MMORPG class archetypes we never play
A few weeks ago, we did a fun Massively Overthinking on our most on-brand MMORPG classes and archetypes, the character concepts and playstyles we...
Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?
This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...
Perfect Ten: How MMOs explain away our infinite resurrections
Why? Why do we die in MMOs and keep coming back to life? Are we in a type of hell defined by endless combat...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 346: Endwalker, ArcheAge, Lost Ark, and New World
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's Endwalker delay, WoW's financials and player council, ArcheAge's new publisher, Gamigo's new MMORPG, Lost Ark's beta, New World's state, DDO update 51, Elder Scrolls Online's Deadlands, Harry Potter Wizard Unite's sunset, and Crowfall's freemium update, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallen Earth, City of Heroes, and Star Wars Galaxies, plus a mailbag topic on worry about the future of the genre.
The Stream Team: Taking a peek at the new Seismic Blast powerset in City of Heroes Homecoming’s beta
Isn't it wild that we're talking about a beta test for City of Heroes content in 2021? Here we are doing just that as...
City of Heroes Homecoming’s Issue 27: Second Chances, Page 3 hits the test server
On Wednesday, we noted in our big roundup of MMORPG studios running Extra Life 2021 charity streams this weekend that City of Heroes rogue...
Massively Overthinking: What are your most on-brand MMORPG class archetypes?
A while back in MOP's work chat, we were chatting about Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons and how its elite specs line up...
How to support Extra Life 2021, from Guild Wars 2 and EverQuest to LOTRO and City of Heroes
If you caught MJ's latest Massively Uplifting, you probably noticed that Extra Life is ramping up across the gaming industry, and particularly among MMORPG...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 345: The rise of Fallen Earth
Justin and Bree discuss Fallen Earth Classic, New World's messes, Blizzard's outlook, Magic Legends, Riders Republic, and Pikmin Bloom, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on how forum comments affect our opinions of MMOs.
Ship of Heroes showcases trick or treat event ahead of December beta
As the Halloween season draws to a close in MMO land, the devs working on Ship of Heroes would like to take followers out...
The Daily Grind: Which dead MMOs do you hope will come back some day?
Last week, Fallen Earth returned to service, which delighted me to no end. When you have favorite MMOs that end up being shuttered or...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPGs of all time, 2021 edition
Five years ago this week - back in 2016 - the MOP team and readers did an epic Massively Overthinking picking out their top...
City of Heroes Homecoming gets all Halloween happy
The other day on the podcast, we were trying to recall what the name of City of Heroes' haunted house was. That served as...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMORPGs you’ve already forgotten about
Not every MMORPG can remain in the spotlight forever. Time has a nasty habit of making us forget titles that used to rile up...
The Daily Grind: Does New World need mounts?
Earlier this week, we ran a Daily Grind on walking in MMOs, and I happened to mention New World as a game where walking...
Into the Super-Verse: Has Homecoming torched the plans of City of Heroes successors?
Anyone who has followed my career for a while is probably aware of the fact that I love City of Heroes. This is not a...
City of Heroes Rebirth rogue server celebrates Halloween and the Day of the Dead
When you're a superhero, every day is a costume party -- but not every day gives you candy for free, alas. So it's still...
The Daily Grind: When are ‘microtransactions’ too much in MMOs?
Two money-related topics crossed my desk the last couple of weeks. The first was a Reddit topic complaining about microtransactions in MMOs - not the...
Choose My Adventure: DC Universe Online just ended up making me love City of Heroes more
Third verse same as the first. If nothing else, DC Universe Online is consistent in how its leveling game works, though there were a...
