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The Daily Grind: Are you a Jumpy McJumperson in MMOs?
When you were young, you found your purpose with the spacebar of your computer keyboard. Suddenly, your characters were slipping the surly bonds of...
Choose My Adventure: Black Desert should have gotten MMO of the Year
I can admit when I'm wrong. It happens often enough, that's for damn sure, and part of learning from a mistake is admitting that...
The Daily Grind: What one thing in an MMO do you wish devs would delete instead of fix?
The house I live in borders a park on the back, which means I can look out my kitchen window and see a zillion...
Massively Uplifting: DragonCon announces official charity, more studios support Australian wildfire relief
This past month has been filled with its share of dark news, not the least of which is the coronavirus that is plaguing the...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.2 in review – the story
The funny thing about big Final Fantasy XIV patches these days is that because the smaller material gets a bit more spread out, we...
Not So Massively: First impressions of Wolcen, a familiar but fun ARPG
Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem isn't a game whose development I followed super closely, but I'd seen it on Steam aways back and thought it...
The Daily Grind: Do old MMOs perform so much better now than at launch that they’re actually easier?
MMO blogger Wilhelm of The Ancient Gaming Noob fame recently posed us a question about old vs. new MMOs. "Our WoW Classic group has been...
The Daily Grind: How much do you see COVID-19 impacting the MMO sphere?
It's not really surprising that COVID-19 is having an impact on gaming. No, the disease is not rampaging through the world with a horribly...
The Game Archaeologist: Tabula Rasa
The story of Tabula Rasa begins, as so many others do, with 1997's Ultima Online. Raph Koster and Richard Garriott's online fantasy sandbox proved...
The Daily Grind: What does a new MMO have to do to get your attention?
Last week, we reported that Population Zero is gunning for a May launch as a buy-to-play title. While I'm always intrigued by the debut...
Lawful Neutral: Cheating, copyright law, and the WoW Glider lawsuit
I have fond memories of using the Game Genie on my NES. To my seven-year-old self, it was a godsend. So many Nintendo games...
Warframe of Mind: The mental health implications of Chains of Harrow
Previously on Warframe of Mind I extolled the virtues of Warframe’s Chains of Harrow mission. It definitely deserved praise: I loved the spooky, intense...
WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour – Wrath of the Lich King
The downside to a project like this one, where I'm going through each of World of Warcraft's expansions one by one, is that it...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG you’ve never played and probably never will?
A while back, a few MassivelyOP staff were chit-chatting about alting in MMOs, specifically in Star Trek Online. During the discussion, it occurred to...
Vague Patch Notes: Contemplating MMORPG exit barriers
In episode 13 of season 9 of The Simpsons, after having spent far more time than she wants in the Movementarian cult, Marge angrily...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most toxic fan-based defense force?
Every single MMO has its own unwanted and unnecessary defense force. We could run a story tomorrow about Final Fantasy XIV selling your credit card...
Desert Oasis: Understanding Black Desert’s Black Spirit
When Black Desert first released stateside back in 2016, I wasn't interested. At the time, I was deeply invested in running Guild Wars 2's fractals,...
Perfect Ten: Neat things that Star Trek Online did with Star Trek lore
I've been getting back into Star Trek Online recently, which really means that I've been scratching the surface of the game again for a bit...
The Daily Grind: Is there any hope for RIFT?
Ugh. My heart hurts every time that my attention turns to RIFT. It's one of perhaps six or so MMORPGs that I've dearly, dearly...
Wandering Wraeclast: Discover Delirium when Path of Exile’s new league launches March 13
There are certain things you can count on in life, things to set your clocks by. One of those is my quarterly chat with...
