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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the brightest future heading into 2025?
Consider this end-of-the-year Daily Grind a sort of hopeful counterpart to the "stormiest future" fauxward, as instead of talking about the MMOs we're worried...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s Summoner has always been a problem
Over the course of Final Fantasy XIV's run, we have encountered a lot of primals. There are the seven who are fought in the main...
The Daily Grind: Will you Kickstart any MMOs in 2025?
It's actually been several years since we had a pure MMORPG blow up on Kickstarter, but we've certainly seen survival sandboxes and mini-MMOs do...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s January dough
Pokemon Go's Dual Destiny season continues in January, and Niantic's starting the year with some new(ish) pokemon it's teasing. Some are genuinely new, like Fidough,...
The Daily Grind: What do you do after you accomplish a goal in an MMORPG?
The thing about MMORPGs is that they are a constantly ongoing journey, and whenever you accomplish one thing... well, there's another thing to do....
The Daily Grind: Do you play only one MMO combat archetype or roam the field?
When we distill combat styles in MMOs down to their most crude categories, we usually end up with three: melee fighting, ranged physical attacks,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Digging into LOTRO’s 2025 roadmap and new server panic
There's nothing like being far away from home on a late-December vacation only to get the notice that, hey, Lord of the Rings Online...
Warframe of Mind: Appreciating the opaque nonsense of Warframe’s storytelling
Back in 2018, I played Warframe for the first time as part of Choose My Adventure, and I knew that it was going to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best community as of 2024?
This is one of my favorite Daily Grinds of the end-of-the-year season - wanna know why? It's because I get to compliment MMORPG gamers!...
Vague Patch Notes: My favorite five MMO columns of the year edition
So I don't usually do these for a couple reasons. For starters, they always feel kind of like self-promotion, an activity that I am...
Tamriel Infinium: I’m no doomer, but I’m worried about the future of Elder Scrolls Online
If alarm bells were faintly ringing over Elder Scrolls Online owing to events transpiring early in December, now they're blaring klaxons with the release...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMO expansions of 2024
Around the Massively OP office, the common consensus is that 2024 ended up being the Year of the MMO Expansion. After all, we got...
The Daily Grind: What present would you like from your main MMORPG next year?
I got nearly everything I could have asked for from Final Fantasy XIV this past year, so that's pretty nifty. But it's not like...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives, 2024 edition
While MMORPGs constitute a shifting, ever-evolving market, their history remains surprisingly evergreen. That's what history is: Facts and stories stamped and preserved for our...
The Daily Grind: Did you hit the level cap in any MMORPGs this year?
As we reflect on the weird and often unpredictable journey through MMOs in 2024, it's always interesting to look back on one's accomplishments (or...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up Victory is Life and wrapping my head around a new ship in Star Trek Online
Well, this final Choose My Adventure for this year has certainly been a journey. For a couple of reasons. First, I've gotten through the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offered the best PvE experience in 2024?
I think I tried and failed to disambiguate PvE and PvM earlier this year - the terms are just too synonymous for modern gamers....
Fight or Kite: Multiversus is actually still incredible – but it’s not without some missteps
I’ve been waffling on what MMOs to play in this upcoming holiday break since I’ve got a handful of long-term games already in session....
Wisdom of Nym: The highs – and lows – of Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 7.15 stories
Technically, Final Fantasy XIV's patch 7.15 contains one piece of ongoing content... insofar as you're going to keep turning in custom deliveries to Nitowikwe...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMORPG trend of 2024?
Layoffs.
OK, that one's a gimmie - and it hurts a lot more than MMORPGs. So let me pitch another one:
A bunch of MMOs either...
