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Hyperspace Beacon: A six-year retrospective of Star Wars The Old Republic
Happy birthday, Star Wars: The Old Republic. I don't think your birthday has actually ever fallen on the same day that my article released,...
Jukebox Heroes: The 2017 Online Video Game Music Awards
Oh, I can hear all of you out there, mewing with frustration that Massively OP hasn't yet announced the truly important awards yet this...
Chaos Theory: Guide to Secret World Legends’ first Krampusnacht
While many games go festive for the holiday season, no one does it quite like Secret World Legends. Cutesy doesn't quite fit here, but...
Wisdom of Nym: Taking a peek at Final Fantasy XIV’s next patch
Gosh, I feel sort of bad for the person whose job it was to make the next Final Fantasy XIV fan festival reveal seem...
MMO Mechanics: 2017’s MMO Mechanics in review
I cannot quite believe that we're saying goodbye to 2017 and ringing in 2018 so quickly: It certainly doesn't feel as though an entire...
The Game Archaeologist: Revisiting the first three months of World of Warcraft
Were you there?
Many of us were. Many weren't. Either way, November 23rd, 2004 was a watershed date for the MMORPG industry and one watched...
WoW Factor: The fate of WoW’s class orders post-Legion, part 1
In the lull between expansions, I've been hard at work bringing my alts up to the level cap, unlocking all of the class mounts,...
Tamriel Infinium: Our 2017 report card for Elder Scrolls Online
All in all, 2017 has been a fabulous year for the Elder Scrolls Online, and although I have been light on talking about the...
Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018
It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Hall of Chains raid wing first impressions
I promised you at the end of last week's rundown of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living World season's launch episode that I'd return this week...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s 2017 in review
It's hard to say whether 2017 was a good year for Final Fantasy XIV.
Sure, on one level it seems obvious. The game launched its...
EVE Evolved: Calling time on EVE Online’s five-year vision
When Andie "CCP Seagull" Nordgren walked onto the stage at EVE Fanfest 2013 and delivered her long-term vision for the future of EVE Online,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Fixing Lord of the Rings Online’s grouping problem
One of the quirks -- and frustrations -- of MMORPGs is that there never seems to be one game that truly has it all....
Ask Mo: Counting the hits and misses of our 2017 predictions
As we do every year, today we’re going to peer back into the depths of last year's staff predictions for the genre and the games...
WoW Factor: Reconsidering the next few months of World of Warcraft
There's a lot of information coming out about patch 7.3.5 at this point. Not everything, of course, and a lot of it is based...
Chaos Theory: Exploring Secret World Legend’s anima allocation and other QoL improvements
Remember that big quality-of-life update that Secret World Legends launched mid-November? Chances are your quality of SWL life did indeed improve with a number...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR, it’s time to destroy the Eternal Empire
Those players who were looking for consequence in their Star Wars: The Old Republic storyline can, I'm glad to say, look to Knights of...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s living world S4 Daybreak
I'm back with an earlier-than-anticipated special edition of Flameseeker Chronicles to share my impressions of the opening episode of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living World...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017
As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...
Jukebox Heroes: Kritika Online’s soundtrack
It's kind of a sad commentary on 2017 that Kritika Online is one of the most significant MMORPGs to launch during the calendar year....