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Choose My Adventure: Wakfu may not be my cup of tea
You know how sometimes you really can't know for sure how you'll feel about a game until you fire it up? Those games where...
Not So Massively: Wolcen’s roadmap is missing some important things
In the past, I've been pretty free with my praise for Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem. I've gotten nearly a hundred hours of good fun...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s outage analysis, simplified
For my day job, I’m a software developer, and all of my previous jobs have been IT related in some fashion. I still remember...
The Daily Grind: What’s the single best way an MMO can keep a newbie playing?
A while back, MOP's own Ben tweeted that during his recent foray into EVE Online, a gamemaster messaged him out of the blue. The...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO Fest 2021 might be the last great GO Fest
Still cleaning out your pokemon collections, trainers? I know I still need to! Pokemon Go’s recent Go Fest 2021 was a return to form...
Wisdom of Nym: What will Final Fantasy XIV add to its ranged damage dealers?
There's a usual pattern I follow when discussing Final Fantasy XIV jobs, and this time I wanted to break it. We've already talked about...
Hands-on with New World’s 20v20 PvPvE battleground and its newest dungeon
Last week Amazon Games held a press demo and offered up an early preview of some of the latest and greatest content coming to...
The Daily Grind: What do you do when you have gobs of money in an MMO and nothing to spend it on?
The other day, I was tooling around Star Wars Galaxies on the Legends server and feeling a bit despondent, not because I had too...
The Daily Grind: What routine tasks do you frequently forget in MMOs?
If you never played it back in the day, Final Fantasy XI was often a game of chores. Did you remember to get food?...
LOTRO Legendarium: What returning to LOTRO feels like
I don't think that I have ever rage-quit Lord of the Rings Online, but I certainly have put it down often enough. That's pretty...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most useful MMO tidbit you’ve learned recently?
No matter how long I've spent playing an MMORPG, there seems to be no end to the new things I can learn about any...
Massively on the Go: How Jackbox Games helped gamers stay social through COVID
For some people, Jackbox Games' Party Packs were a COVID lifesaver. While many of us have a lot of virtual connections thanks to our...
Vague Patch Notes: Hating an MMO isn’t the same as having a personality
There was a friend I had at one point who had a particularly annoying habit. Whenever I would bring up something obnoxious that was...
Camelot Unchained boss rebuts theory that its studio finances are in disarray
Dedicated readers of MassivelyOP already know that Camelot Unchained has become an MMO saddled with controversy over the last couple of years. Originally Kickstarted...
The Daily Grind: What’s your least favorite content in an MMO that you still take part in?
I have a lifelong policy of not being spicy to people who are bad in World of Warcraft PvP because I can hardly blame...
Path of Exile’s battle royale mode returns for weekend fun
Do you miss Path of Exile's 2018 April Fools' joke battle royale mode made real? Or did you miss out on it completely as...
The Daily Grind: Should MMO PvP be about skill or loot?
Classic Guild Wars was a bit of an awakening for me. I'd grown up in MMORPGs where the PvP was often predetermined by your...
WoW Factor: The Blizzard ‘leak’ is probably fake, but it’s still valuable
So right now it doesn't need to be said that stuff with World of Warcraft is kind of a mess. Shadowlands might have been...
The Daily Grind: What expectations do you have for Amazon’s New World?
It's already been a crazy busy summer for MMO tests, patches, expansions, and launches -- and we are far from done. One of the...
Perfect Ten: The 10 most huggable boss monsters in multiplayer online hunting RPGs
Have you ever fought a boss monster that didn't feel like it deserved your fatal blows? Sure, it's just a video game, and the...
