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Interview: Lost Ark’s regional parity, genderlocking, and the Amazon-Smilegate collaboration
A few days before the western release of Lost Ark, we posed questions to the Amazon Games team, and franchise lead Soomin Park was...
The Daily Grind: Has a patch ever saved an MMO for you?
A while back, I penned a Daily Grind about expansions that sent MMOs wildly off course. Today, I want to do the opposite and...
The Daily Grind: How important is an MMO’s crafting to you?
Crafting is in an interesting place with MMOs, because it tends to be something people have opinions on regardless on how invested they really...
LOTRO Legendarium: Six reasons why LOTRO’s Beorning is amazing
When Update 33 arrives later this month, Lord of the Rings Online players will have access to a slew of classes and races that...
The Daily Grind: How many new MMO characters have you rolled this year so far?
It has come to my attention that 2022 is now over one-fourth complete. In the first three months of the year, we've seen quite...
Vague Patch Notes: When MMOs pit their playerbase against itself
Today's Vague Patch Notes is about something weird that I feel like someone should definitely done something about a long time before now. It's...
WoW Factor: So let’s talk about World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight leak
Sometimes you just get handed a column, you know? No, you probably don't; you probably don't work in this insane profession. The point is that...
The Daily Grind: Do you try more MMOs since free-to-play became the dominant model?
I still remember when boxes for MMOs were very much the default. I owned boxed copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic, Star Trek Online,...
Fight or Kite: Classic Robocraft is a mashup of a Minecraftian block-builder and arena brawler
Robocraft - now there's a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Back in those days, we played things fast and loose. You...
Perfect Ten: Top 10 favorite World of Warcraft zones by feels
Recently on the MassivelyOP podcast, we were asked by a listener about our favorite MMO zones. That discussion quickly morphed into selecting certain zones...
The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you rage quit an MMO gaming session?
The other night I did something I haven't done in a very long time: I got so frustrated with an MMO that I shut...
Choose My Adventure: The point of a community-guided MMO column
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Choose My Adventure programming for something of a meta discussion on what this column is meant to be and...
MassivelyOP’s guide to 13 MMORPGs that you can play on Macs
Until I got my first Macbook this past December, I admit that I never really paid attention to what MMOs could be played on...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst city in an MMORPG?
A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, I boldly declared that New Kaineng has surpassed Divinity's Reach and Dalaran as the greatest cities ever...
Massively Uplifting: How gamers are bringing humanitarian relief to Ukraine
It was a month that started in love but ended with war: Terrible, painful things keep happening in the world and in our communities....
The Game Archaeologist: When EverQuest players killed the unkillable Sleeper
In many CRPGs and MMORPGs, there are bosses designed to be so crazy tough that, for most people, these enemies are straight-out unkillable. Developers...
Wisdom of Nym: Catching up on Final Fantasy XIV’s second patch 6.1 letter
Ah, the second live letter about the patch, reliable as clockwork, confirming the date that we had already probably ascertained just based on the...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs focus more on the midgame?
Hey, midgame MMORPG players! I see you! Yeah, you. You don't really like playing baby toons or "finished" characters; you gets tons of characters...
The Daily Grind: What ‘major’ MMO patch was the biggest letdown for you?
Look, you can feel however you want about World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. You can feel that it's one of the most disappointing and limply handled...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are you hoping to play later this year?
I keep telling myself, there are never enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do -- including playing all of...
